I got pretty down on this lens when I was trying to use it with my D800 for candid shots - i.e., non tripod, on-the-fly shots where using LiveView was not practical and even then the results were not good.
With the A7RII I find that obtaining critical focus is a tiny tiny tiny adjustment of the focusing ring which I can get with the A7RII at 100% focusing in the EVF - the D800, even with live view, was a lost cause.
Hard to tell in the images below, but at 100% what I wanted to be in focus/sharp actually is.
Is it the best ~200mm prime, well not quite as my 180/3.4 APO Telyt beats it by a hair, but it's pretty darned good at 42.5MP when you can get it focused right.
Geoff CB wrote:
Just was browsing the Voightlander website, seems that the 20mm 3.5 SL II and 28mm 2.8 SL II are both out of production.
No loss with the 20/3.5. Back when I was using a D300, I tried two copies of the 20/3.5 and both of them were significantly less sharp than my 16-85 zoom lens at F5.6 and F8. I was very disappointed.
