Liked this one (it was 2nd on the set of 3). Were these shoot with the close-up lens, or without?
Once I heard they discontinued the lens I ordered one immediately, will be very interesting to take first shots since I haven't seen many samples from this lens and don't have very good idea what kind of drawing this lens has.
Sami Ruusunen wrote:
nice shots Lars, what do you think about the CV90?
FYI - Verkkokauppa.com has them in inventory, don't be as stupid as I was and order from Amazon.com before checking Finish stores...
Apr 03, 2012 at 03:28 PM
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Lars, beautiful photos. You've inspired me to break out my CV90 and use it on my GXR next week. I should have plenty of opportunities with desert flowers in California next week. It is definitely an underappreciated lens.
Here are a few downtown Kalamazoo from the CV 35/1.2 on the GXR, processed in RPP.
Finally got change to go out and shoot with 90mm f/3.5 SL II. I had heard it's sharp, but rather flat rendering, but in action the rendering was much better than I anticipated. Got this one mainly for abstracts and semi-macros, but could not resist to shoot my usual subjects.
I'd say that #1 & #2 have a great feel of presence, with #2 topping it. See you got some snow over there at the other side of the water :-), where in Finland is this?
wfrank wrote:
I'd say that #1 & #2 have a great feel of presence, with #2 topping it. See you got some snow over there at the other side of the water :-), where in Finland is this? Yes was positive surprise, that this lens was not flat like many had said. However if you don't use the hood, the lens is useless, I have not seen as bad performance from any other modern lens, like there is no coating at all, and when it flares you can see the sensor on the images!!! In practice this is never going to be problem for me (I usually shoot from tripod and can shade with hand/hat/whatever I have availeble..., if the hood is not effective enough).
Sun shining to front lens vs. shading lens with hand (the supplied hood was used, but it didn't block the sun since it's almost in the frame):
To be fair: I can't even imagine that anyone don't use the hood on that lens. It's the smallest hood that I have seen on any DSLR tele lens ever. It's so small and discrete that when you buy the lens, it comes with the hood mounted on the lens in the box
Lars Johnsson wrote:
To be fair: I can't even imagine that anyone don't use the hood on that lens. It's the smallest hood that I have seen on any DSLR tele lens ever. It's so small and discrete that when you buy the lens, it comes with the hood mounted on the lens in the box
I use hood in all lenses, no matter how big they are (thou something as ridiculous as using 17-40 standard hood with crop camera is out of the question, luckily some other hood did fit and solved the issue).
However the actual issue is not using it without hood (that is just stupidity), but on situation where sun can shine to front lens even hood is used, the lens becomes useless unless you want to study how your sensor reflection looks. For example on photo above sun was able to shine directly ~30% of the front lens, not directly to whole front lens. Issue relevant only for handhold shooters (and lazy/stupid tripod shooters). Not an issue for me (mostly shooting from tripod), since I have always shaded with hand/hat/what-ever-available the front lens if hood was not competent enough.
(naturally the hood gives also protection against branches etc. brushing the front lens when walking in dense forests)
Wish there would be more samples from 40/2, based on how good 90/3.5 turned out, I'm quite interested for having shorter "partner" for 90/3.5. I mostly shoot with two bodies and prefer to have same kind of rendering of subjects shoot at same time/location/session. Colors and rendering is fairly different than Zeiss lenses, what I usually use.
Apr 07, 2012 at 04:48 AM
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Lars Johnsson wrote:
I also own the 40/2. It's a very nice little lens with good IQ. Look earlier in this thread and you will see samples from it
I have viewed those and what I could find from Flickr. Didn't get good idea of it's rendering, varies so much based on how people do their post processing and if they actually modify image. I don't want to touch images other than adjust black point and finetune white balance (I try to set it correct when I shoot).
I was again in snowy forest, and I start to like more and more 90mm. Maybe it's the "APO", but colors are so pure with this lens. Some ugly things in medium/long distance bokeh, but so does every lens I have tried this far. This lens and Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 are competing very hard for best bang for buck for native EF-mount lens if you ask me...
So sad they decided to stop manufacture 90mm (or actually so sad more people didn't buy it so they had to stop production). If Voigtländer ever does SL II version of 180, one better be fast to buy it before they end the production...
