Voigtlander 28/3.5 Color Skopar - Actual pictures

[lawrence]

City Lights Bookstore, SF.

 

[lawrence]

Carolina Beach, NC. Taken on a Canon L1 with TMY. Just realised the blacks aren't so great in this one...hmmm.

 

[lawrence]

Cape Hatteras, NC. Also with L1 and TMY.

 

[lawrence]

As you can see, the great things about this lens are: no flare, no distortion, very sharp. What more do you want? (Yeah, yeah, I know... you want f2!).

 

[jke]

I bought mine out of anger when my Summicron 28mm f2.0 developed internal flare due to coating defects and spent a year in Solms getting repaired. That lens is back now and works perfectly, but I can't bring myself to sell the Voigtlander. It isn't as sharp edge to edge, but it is plenty good enough & has one key quality that I like - it's small!

 

[Michael Markey]

Like all those, Lawrence esp City Lights.

 

[lawrence]

Like all those, Lawrence esp City Lights.

Thanks! The City Lights shot was used for the cover of a book about The Beats, which was a nice bonus...

 

[Bingley]

I love this lens...

 

[Bingley]

 

[kermaier]

Gorgeous!
::Ari

 

[Bingley]

Thanks, Ari. This lens shines for b&w and color, as the other photos in this thread demonstrate (I, too, really liked Lawrence's City Lights shot).

 

[Bingley]

Couldn't resist one more...

 

[coelacanth]

Ohhhhh. All these great photos are driving me nuts. Mine better arrive soon! Thank you very much for sharing!

 

[jonmanjiro]

All the wide angle shots I posted in this thread were taken with the S-mount Skopar 28/3.5 (same optical formula as the LTM version).

I like this lens so much that I have one in S-mount and LTM!

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

That's really thinking in black and white... Unforgettable photograph! Congratulations!

 

[ferider]

 

[Bingley]

Juan -- Thank you! Another thing that's neat about this lens is that, while it's sharp and contrasty, it can also capture details in highlights and shadow. I just developed this one over the weekend, taken on a sunny day in August:

 

[Bingley]

Roland -- Great shot!

 

[jl-lb.ms]

Here's a recent one with the 28/3.5 on an M8. John.

 

[jiroshashin]

Thanks for your advise to buy this lens, Erik !