Voigtlander 21mm f4 Color Skopar

[le vrai rdu]

okay 🙂 that's great 🙂

 

[Becoming]

PS: I can't believe you're only 25, I've just noticed. Your work is so mature, more like you've been shooting 25 years!

Keep it up.

 

[le vrai rdu]

thanks a lot Becoming 😉

 

[Pablito]

very good lens, the finder is fine but the frame lines can blank out

 

[le vrai rdu]

I take it tomorrow 🙂

 

[capitalK]

Love mine. I often keep the viewfinder on the body and then it's ready to shoot once I add the lens (which takes up very little room in my bag, even with the square hood). Edit: I have the LTM version with an M mount adapter.

 

[ampguy]

Thanks Doug

Thanks Doug

This guy, if he doesn't crop, is very very good with using the 21 on full frame with his people shots.

I use the 21 mostly on a 1.3x crop for landscapes, with the M8, don't need the ext. VF, but glasses wearers probably will.

Hi -- As to use of 21mm lens, here's an excellent series shot in Istanbul, all with 21mm Skopar. It makes me want one too!:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=322503

Also in our recent thread here in RF Forum about favorite street photos, the two I first submitted were both taken with the 21mm lens equivalent in the 6x7 format (a 45mm f/4)

 

[Mablo]

Love my VC 21mm. It's soo easy to use. In many situations I don't even bother to focus properly, only scale focus roughly (using f/8 or more) and my photos are always sharp.

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

I love it. it's small, rather sharp, quick to handle and I love the bit of a 'retro' look and vignetting wide open. I'm using it without viewfinder.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=21mm&w=26124575@N04&ss=1&s=int

 

[le vrai rdu]

I got it 😀

lovely little stuff 🙂 , I love the framing of this focal length 🙂


The finder is quite nice and clear 🙂

 

[Becoming]

I got it 😀

lovely little stuff 🙂 , I love the framing of this focal length 🙂


The finder is quite nice and clear 🙂

I thought you'd end up getting it. Good choice.

 

[le vrai rdu]

tried it today at the horse race (grand prix d'amérique 2010)

21 mm 4 CV bessa R


the funniest focal length I ever used 😀

 

[capitalK]

 

[kossi008]

I also have it and I like it so much that I am considering getting an R4x for it. I have two reservations about the external finder I am using on my Bessa R right now:

(a) I find it somewhat cumbersome to use two finders. But then again, I'm just lazy...
(b) I sometimes tilt the picture, because the barrel distortion of the external finder makes it just a little harder to align the vertical lines. But then again, I'm just sloppy...

I think I would use this lens even more often if I had an R4x. But I guess that's just the GAS talking... 😀

 

[ampguy]

If I didn't need the 21vf for my 15, I'd probably sell it. The whole VF works pretty well for the 21 on the M8, just a bit tight, like all the M8 lines 😉

 

[kemal_mumcu]

Great little lens - even for night stuff. 🙂

 

[swatch]

Vc 21 / 4.0

Vc 21 / 4.0

I love it. it's small, rather sharp, quick to handle and I love the bit of a 'retro' look and vignetting wide open. I'm using it without viewfinder.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=21mm&w=26124575@N04&ss=1&s=int

Hi Simon, you did excellent photos with 21mm lens ... amazing you did it without external vf and your the subjects ( people, dogs ... ) were all at the right place in the photos

 

[kossi008]

I just bought a C-Biogon 21/4.5 to replace my Skopar 21/4. And after a weekend of testing (shooting side-by-side), guess what? The Skopar stays, the C-Biogon gets sent back.

I don't really care if I cought a bad copy of the latter or a very good one of the former. Sharpness-wise, they were identical. 😱

And I'm talking Orthopan, tripod, pixel-peeping on 4000 ppi scans here. If I hadn't kept notes, I'd have thought I forgot to swap lenses between shots...

Sure, sure, people will point out how the Biogon has zero distortion and is more flare-resistant etc. But for the money, the Skopar is a gem, folks!

 

[le vrai rdu]

little 21 mm gone fishing 😀

 

[lawrence]

I just bought a C-Biogon 21/4.5 to replace my Skopar 21/4. And after a weekend of testing (shooting side-by-side), guess what? The Skopar stays, the C-Biogon gets sent back.

I don't really care if I cought a bad copy of the latter or a very good one of the former. Sharpness-wise, they were identical. 😱

And I'm talking Orthopan, tripod, pixel-peeping on 4000 ppi scans here. If I hadn't kept notes, I'd have thought I forgot to swap lenses between shots...

Sure, sure, people will point out how the Biogon has zero distortion and is more flare-resistant etc. But for the money, the Skopar is a gem, folks!

Very interesting. I'm being tempted by the C-Biogon because I don't like the vignetting on the Skopar. Did you see much difference in this area?