Bob - thank you.Never say never Nice capture of the Golden Hour.
I am also starting to appreciate this lens more although i have the vs 1, the only drawback is the MFD but the Hawks adapter can fix this.It seems to me that this lens can take a lot of contrast, you can really punish the files in PP and they hold up extremely well.Some of that is the NEX sensor but also the Voigt as well.
-Jim
Jim Schemel wrote:
Bob - thank you.Never say never Nice capture of the Golden Hour.
I am also starting to appreciate this lens more although i have the vs 1, the only drawback is the MFD but the Hawks adapter can fix this.It seems to me that this lens can take a lot of contrast, you can really punish the files in PP and they hold up extremely well.Some of that is the NEX sensor but also the Voigt as well.
-Jim
There's so much I like about this lens. I'm not heavy into all the technical details but I agree with you. This lens has Zeiss like qualities. I'm sure the Voigt people would rather us say that the Zeiss has Voigt like properties but I'm mostly a zeiss shooter on my SLR. I'm not sure about major differences between our Version I and II but both appear to be performing quite well on the NEX cameras!
Also I have read on several sites that the 35 V 2 is a bit smaller than 35 V1? The Voigt 35mm on a Nex 7 seems to me like an excellent fit, not too large and well balanced, excellent combo.
I want one AF lens for my Nex 7. Has anyone used both the Sony Zeiss 24mm f 1.8 and the Sigma 30 mm that is getting a lot of positive comments. I understand that there is a great difference in price, I assume there is a large difference in build quality?? any other comments will be appreciated. thanks joanlvh
Agreed, FlyPenFly, although that Sigma is a 45mm equivalent, not a 60mm. The 45mm equivalent is partly why I actually preferred the Sigma to the Zeiss.
Jim Schemel wrote:
Bob,
I think the advantage that Vs II has is a MFD of .05m as apposed to .07m on vs 1, it seems optically they are the same.
-Jim
If you look at the Cameraquest site, he notes some difference in optics, as quoted below...
"V1 & V2: V2 has a thinner smaller lens barrel (size 62mm x 60.8mm) vs. (63mm x 77.8mm), weighs slightly less (490 grams vs. 471), easier to bar code for digital Leicas, can now scale focus to .5 meter (both RF focus to .7meter - the RF limit of M cameras) different lens hoods which are not interchangeable between the two versions, same 52mm filter size.
Scale focus .5 to .7 meters (focus by lens scale), RF close focus .7 meter
10 elements in 7 groups - same formula as before, but improved glass gives improved performance"
douglasf13 wrote:
Agreed, FlyPenFly, although that Sigma is a 45mm equivalent, not a 60mm. The 45mm equivalent is partly why I actually preferred the Sigma to the Zeiss.
Woops, running MFT, APS-C, and FF has its brain hiccups sometimes.
Jim - IMHO Snapseed is the best editing tool for the iPad and I feel confident using it when I don't have the laptop with me and I want to get something out. It's definitely not Lightroom but you can achieve an awful lot with this program.
rji2goleez wrote:
Jim - IMHO Snapseed is the best editing tool for the iPad and I feel confident using it when I don't have the laptop with me and I want to get something out. It's definitely not Lightroom but you can achieve an awful lot with this program.
Indeed. I do use Lightroom and Capture One but w IPad Snapseed is really fun, easy and quick...
Nice capture of the Golden Hour.
I'm not sure about major differences between our Version I and II but both appear to be performing quite well on the NEX cameras!
