The naming designations are not very relevant, just do your homework on the specific lenses you're interested in.
The CV 15 works well on the 5N, but produces the magenta color shift that many of the rangefinder wide angle lenses do. It can be corrected via Lightroom Flat Field plugin or Cornerfix, sometimes less drastic measures can correct the color shift, such as purple channel saturation and hue adjustments.
Also worth noting, some of the lenses come in M or LTM mount. Optically they're the same, but not always physically (obviously I mean aside from the mount). For example, I specifically purchased the LTM version of the 15mm because it's more compact and 39mm filters can be sort of rigged up to fit snugly inside the tiny built in hood.
Other CV lenses, such as the Lanthar 90 (works great on the 5N by the way) never came in M mount.
coloured wrote:
I dont find the cv15mm produces any magenta corners on my 5N, but maybe Im missing it
Beautiful shots. Whether the 5N color shifts/vignettes or not seems to be hit-or-miss. Mine and Jacob Ds do, yours appears not to. No idea why some do and some don't. [shrug]
Nice. More great information. Thanks again. I'll look in to the Cameraquest site and smarten myself up. To be clear, the cv15 with an adapter will work like a 24mm lens, correct?
bhjazz wrote:
Nice. More great information. Thanks again. I'll look in to the Cameraquest site and smarten myself up. To be clear, the cv15 with an adapter will work like a 24mm lens, correct?
15 x 1.5= 22.5mm FOV
The 15 is an excellent lens, I just find it a pain to fix the corners on my NEX-7, so it's not used as much as I want to use it, maybe on my next camera.
Thanks all - I had dialled down the flare in pp, but now I'm thinking I should call a bug a feature (as we say in software development ;-)) and reveal the crazy flare in all its glory. What do you think of this version?
