Voigtlander 50mm f/2 APO-Lanthar Aspherical Photos

raid said:
It could be that the APO lens works better with certain sensors than with others.
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Makes no difference. It's the convergence of the 3 wavelengths at the same point on the plane that results in truer colors. APO is no small thing and requires very precise element alignments in addition to the special glass.
 
raid said:
This is good to know, so it does not matter whether I had used the M9 or M8 or M10.
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Should not.
They are designed to converge at a point and whether a CMOS, CCD or film, it won't matter. The resolution benefit is best appreciated on a higher MP sensor, of course. It easily out-resolves my M9M and M10P. The color precision benefit is shared by all media.
 
raid said:
If we had a Leica Summicron APO, would it be used with an M body with Automatic lens selection? Could it be that we need new firmware that has in it a lens setting for this CV lens or similar?
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Lightroom Classic 10.1.1 has a "Voigtlander APO-LANTHAR 50mm F2 Aspherical"profile in the Lens Correction tab in Develop module. ACR should have it too, I guess. Should work better than applying a profile for a different lens in-camera, I reckon

Some great pics in this thread. I think I may need to get one of these

Jim
 
I see around 600 viewers of my smugmug website for this lens so far. It shows interest in this lens.

Thanks fir your tip on using LR but I have the old version 5.
 
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Erik van Straten said:
Raid, the second pictures are mucht brighter than the first ones. What did you do exactly to achieve this?


Erik.
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Hello Erik,

I followed what Brian suggested, and I turned off lens recognition.

The first image is the original untouched image. This was straight from the lens and camera after converting DNG to JPG. No other PS.
The second image got some added contrast and saturation.
The third image is a Tri-X 400 rendition for B&W.

It is just an exercise to see the changes PS does to an image. Just a tiny example.
 
With film negatives things are different from starting with a digital file, Erik. I know that many photographers view the initial DNG file as the starting negative from which many versions or variations can be obtained. Most importantly is what this lens has captured on the DNG, to be used for PS to make the image look somehow better in the eyes of the photographer. I always keep PS very basic and only use contrast and saturation changes, with occasional use of curve. I do not know much on how to use PS. I like to keep things simple.
 
In some of the images with enhanced contrast and saturation, I'm getting a greater sense of separation and/or relief of the item in focus from the background elements than I would expect from most non-APO lenses. This is a very small sample size and it's possible what I'm noticing is just an artifact or an illusion. So, I'd like to see more. But this is an encouraging initial sign that this lens might be capable of things not normally attainable in non-APO designs. I'm not getting that same impression or feeling in the flat images.
 
The light is not great for photography these days here in Pensacola. Using PS carefully should be fine.
 
I think that's when edits are most needed in order to get the final result to more closely resemble the feeling of being there.
 
I am confident that during sunny days, this lens will shine in color images without PS.
 
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