Voigtlander 25mm f4 Color Skopar M

[agentlossing]

Explain this "click stop focus" to me! I've looked at this lens for a while, it temps me sometimes.

 

[traveler_101]

Explain this "click stop focus" to me! I've looked at this lens for a while, it temps me sometimes.

Scale focusing, the three click stops are - 1 meter 1.5 meters and 3 meters. With practice you should be able to estimate distance, select click stop without the need to look at the lens's focusing scale, frame through auxiliary viewfinder and shoot. Wide angle - requires getting very close to subjects.

 

[Doug]

Explain this "click stop focus" to me! I've looked at this lens for a while, it temps me sometimes.

This is the Snapshot Skopar 25mm f/4 originally supplied with the Bessa L which has no viewfinder or rangefinder. Thread mount, not RF coupled, came with a dedicated accessory viewfinder, and it's a very good performer. I'm not fond of the "Snapshot" name... seems to trivialize a fine little lens.

 

[Nitroplait]

I'm not fond of the "Snapshot" name... seems to trivialize a fine little lens.

Fine lens indeed - back when it was reasonably new, I remember seeing a photograph of Lee Friedlander at an event where he had one mounted on his camera.
Anyway, I love the name: some of the greatest and most moving photographs are snapshots.

 

[Out to Lunch]

The first three with the Epson R-D1 and the last one with the M7.

 

[GLL]

Lovely photos OTL - I find the vignetting on full frame very charming. Here's another shot on a roll of Reala that was probably a bit passed it.

 

[HoodedOne]

Just to revitalize this topic, for a wonderful lens. My LTM copy is almost fixed permanently to my MD-2. This image was one of the rare occasions I used it on the Zeiss Ikon ZM though.

 

[Out to Lunch]

The Netherlands, Stavoren, Lake IJssel. Epson R-D1s - Voigtlander Color-Skopar 4/25.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Ontario, Mississauga, Lake Ontario. Epson R-D1s - Voigtlander Color-Skopar 4/25.

 

[Bingley]

Thanks to Raid and others who mentioned using the Snapshot Skopar 25/4.0 on crop sensor digicams. I just put my copy on my Olympus Pen F digital and took a few snaps. Results looks pretty good! Sharp and w/ good color rendering. Manually focusing on the Pen F digi was easy-peasy. Here are two sample pics… no great shakes as images but good enough to reasure me about taking this tiny lens to Croatia and Slovenia next week to use on the Olympus Pen F as a stand-in for a 50mm equivalent:

At f.4.0, focus was on the stack of books:



At f.11:

 

[Out to Lunch]

Saigon, Vinhomes, Central Park & the Saigon Bridge. Epson R-D1x - Cosina Voigtlander Color -Skopar 4/25.

 

[rulnacco]

That is a nice, compact little lens. I used to have one--and years later, I still occasionally regret that I didn't keep it.

 

[olakiril]

I still occasionally regret that I didn't keep it.

Yep, this is one of the lenses that I will never sell. Unless they come up with a newer snapshot version that is..

 

[Out to Lunch]

The Netherlands, Stavoren, Lake IJssel. Epson R-D1s - Voigtlander Color-Skopar 4/25.

 

[Out to Lunch]

The Netherlands, Lauwersoog. Wadden Sea. Epson R-D1s - Voigtlander Color-Skopar 4/25.

 

[Bingley]

Back from nearly three weeks in Slovenia and Croatia. I used the Snapshot Skopar 25mm a lot on the Oly Pen F digital, where it functioned like a 50mm lens. Here are a few photos from that combination:

Regarding devices by Steve Macfarlane, on Flickr

Passing Through by Steve Macfarlane, on Flickr

Ljubljana by Steve Macfarlane, on Flickr

 

[Bingley]

Flower Seller by Steve Macfarlane, on Flickr

Cabbages by Steve Macfarlane, on Flickr

 

[fdu]

Washington DC by f_du, on Flickr
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