I just started shooting with the Voigtlander 58mm f1.4 SL II and I'm really liking it. My most used 50-ish lately has been the Nikon 50mm f1.2 AIS, which is a gorgeous lens from f2 and smaller, but is a temperamental beast wide open and at f1.4. Tons of spherical aberration and really funky bokeh most of the time. I'd do a lot of back to back f1.2 and f2 shots and on rare occasion I'd prefer the wide open shot, but mostly I much prefer that lens at f2 and smaller. When your shooting just the right stuff for that lens to actually enhance a shot wide open, it's kind of magic, but there are so many circumstances where it's just weird!
Well, the Voigtlander is also great at f2 and smaller but it's a LOT better behaved wide open. With a nice SA induced "glow", but not a crazy amount of it, and really nice bokeh about 90% of the time. I think it's gonna be a keeper. Also, it's generally accepted that it's f1.4 is actually f1.3, so it's not losing much speed to the Nikon... Anyway, my first long day of shooting with it yesterday. Here are a handful of shots. All are wide open except the first, which was shot at f2 because there was just too much light shoot wide open...
Here are a few from the 28mm f2.8 Color-Skopar on the Nikon DF. They're from early December, but it doesn't look like anyone has posted here since November anyway. A couple of street, a couple of general urban shots...
Ray S. wrote:
Here are a few from the 28mm f2.8 Color-Skopar on the Nikon DF. They're from early December, but it doesn't look like anyone has posted here since November anyway. A couple of street, a couple of general urban shots...
They look very nice,especially the first with the sun in it, can you tell us what aperture they were at please?
I have the 40mm sl2 and am considering the 28, or a nikon 28/2.8 AiS
gyoung143 wrote:
They look very nice,especially the first with the sun in it, can you tell us what aperture they were at please?
I have the 40mm sl2 and am considering the 28, or a nikon 28/2.8 AiS
Gerry
Thanks Gerry,
They're all at f8 except the first - I was going for that sun star so I closed it down to f22, it's smallest aperture. For that last one, there was almost no light and I should have opened it up to f2.8, but sometimes when I'm out shooting on the street, I'm in "f8 and be there" mode, and I just forgot to open it up when I walked through this dark area - it's at 12,800 ISO...
Voigtlander Nokton 58/1.4 SLII on A7
First time with this lens on the A7. (I loved it on the 5DII) Still like it a lot but I think probably best stopped down to F2. Colour fringing a problem at F/1.4 Super sharp all over from F/4 to F/8-11
Autumn in The English Lake District
The one below might be from the Nokton as above, or the Ultron 40/2 SLII. Probably @ F/8(Problem of no Exif with A7) The Ultron 40/2 is great stopped down, but rather busy bokeh at F2 Autumn, Grisedale Beck by Tim Ball, on Flickr
gyoung143 wrote:
I have the 40mm sl2 and am considering the 28, or a nikon 28/2.8 AiS
Gerry
Gerry, I recently compared the NAiS 28/2.8 with the Color Skopar 28/2.8, and if my copies were representative, I'd go for the Nikon for FF. (Color Skopar fine for crop sensor). Sold the Color Skopar.
The problem was poor corners that never sharpened and a lot of colour fringing.
[EDIT: Looking at my files I see that I first compared the CV to Nikon K 28/3.5, then, after selling the CV, I compared the NK 28/3.5 to the NAiS 28/2.8,(NaiS better than NK, but keeping NK for Infared), so I don't have direct comparisons of the CV with the NAiS]
