I'm a little late to the game (I just recently picked mine up), but I'm really enjoying this lens. Here are some samples from a trip to Colonial Williamsburg earlier this month, my first outing with it other than a few test shots around the house.
Here's another set from a visit yesterday to Hershey Gardens Christmas Tree Showcase. Every time I shoot with this lens I'm more impressed. And it's a lot of fun to use too!
... and one more set from Hershey Gardens, this time outside (except the last one). Pretty good subject matter, considering it was the end of November in PA. I've been slowly making my way through this thread and enjoying the variety, but I wouldn't mind seeing what other users have been shooting lately. Any new work?
The Voigtlander 65mm f/2 Macro Apo-Lanthar is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Here's a set from today, just a pleasant winter walk in the Pennsylvania woods.
A new to me wildflower that I either have never seen before, or at least, never noticed. It was right along the trail on today's hike.
"Phacelia Linearis", or common name, "Largeleaf Phacelia. The individual blossoms are a little less than 1 cm in diameter
Beautiful work! The Voigtlander 65 certainly is a fun lens to hike with, but I've never attempted a focus stacking series with it yet. I assume you used a support of some kind, but how are you determining your focus points and number of shots needed? Calculated or estimated?
graytrekker wrote:
A new to me wildflower that I either have never seen before, or at least, never noticed. It was right along the trail on today's hike.
"Phacelia Linearis", or common name, "Largeleaf Phacelia. The individual blossoms are a little less than 1 cm in diameter
Sony A7R III; ISO 100; Voigtlander 65mm f2 @ f4, 1/200 sec. 12 images stacked in Photoshop.
mkuznicki wrote:
Beautiful work! The Voigtlander 65 certainly is a fun lens to hike with, but I've never attempted a focus stacking series with it yet. I assume you used a support of some kind, but how are you determining your focus points and number of shots needed? Calculated or estimated?
Thank you for the kind words.
Yes, I used a tripod. the only "calculations" I did was to use an online Depth of Field calculator just to get a feeling for just how thin the plane of focus would be. When you are down to distances of about 1 foot at f4, it's not much. And - there is little of a scale on the lens down there, and it's not linear, either.
I generally use image enlargement/focus peaking to determine the focal distance of the nearest and furthest parts I want in focus, then (between breezes), just start from the nearest and turn the focus ring just a tiny bit each time until I have reached the furthest point. Perhaps, I throw. in two extra, presumably out of focus exposures on the front end and one at the back end just to be sure I capture the whole range.
This lens (and my older Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8) has quite a bit of focus breathing, but Photoshop seems to know what to do when aligning and stacking. Then finish off back in Lightroom.
Cavansit on Stilbit Pune District India
Sony A7RV + Voigtländer APO-Lanthar Macro 65/2.0 ISO 100, F5.6, 1/15s single exposure.
The two Voigtländer APO-Lanthar Macro 65/2.0 and the Voigtländer APO-Lanthar Macro 110/2.5
are ideal lenses for product and macro photography with unsurpassed color rendition.
These remind me very much of my former Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 125/2.5 and my
fine Vivitar Series 1 Macro 100/2.5 in DSLR times.
