Happy New Year 2026 everyone!
I think it's off to a good start. Frosty and a bit sunny. I went for a walk in the swamp. I'll see if I made the right choice buying the 75mm.
The lens is magical, like all Voigtlander lenses. I'm happy
Peire wrote:
Voigtlander Nokton 75/1.5 in Sony FE mount.Another very good/excellent Voigtlander lens with character.
Hello Peire, I'm glad to finally find pictures taken with the E-Mount version of this lens on a Sony camera. Your post also contains architecture pictures, which can be critical with some lenses. But in your pics I cannot find obvious distortion. Di you use a correction profile? If so, what software did you use for development from RAW-Data? I can't find a profile for this lens in Adobe's list of lenses supported by Camera Raw in Lightroom. But maybe, distortion might not even be a matter when using this lens, whereas some lenses like e.g. the Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG DN, which I use for portraits, can hardly be used for architecture without a correction profile.
This is also a question to other members who use the E-Mount version on Sony cameras: did anyone of you use a correction profile? Due to the first post by Fred, a slight pincushion can be found. Was a manual correction required or very helpful for subjects with straight lines?
I have some other Voigtlander lenses for E-Mount which I use very often and this lens could be a good addition.
Trisha wrote:
Hello Peire, I'm glad to finally find pictures taken with the E-Mount version of this lens on a Sony camera. Your post also contains architecture pictures, which can be critical with some lenses. But in your pics I cannot find obvious distortion. Di you use a correction profile? If so, what software did you use for development from RAW-Data? I can't find a profile for this lens in Adobe's list of lenses supported by Camera Raw in Lightroom. But maybe, distortion might not even be a matter when using this lens, whereas some lenses like e.g. the Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG DN, which I use for portraits, can hardly be used for architecture without a correction profile.
This is also a question to other members who use the E-Mount version on Sony cameras: did anyone of you use a correction profile? Due to the first post by Fred, a slight pincushion can be found. Was a manual correction required or very helpful for subjects with straight lines?
I have some other Voigtlander lenses for E-Mount which I use very often and this lens could be a good addition....Show more →
Hi Trisha,
To develop RAW files I use Capture One Pro.I haven't check whether it aplies lens profile for Nokton 75/1.5.Yet if it needs any optical corrections they must be minimal and supposedly easy done in PP.
C1 Pro can use "Manufacturer Profile" data from EXIF for optical corrections when user edits Sony RAW files shot with any lens that provides such correction profiles in EXIF. Whether it's applied automatically or not depends on camera settings. For example if distortion correction is set to automatic in camera, C1 Pro will also apply it for corresponding RAW files by default at 100% but user can change it through settings in C1 Pro. If it's set to off in camera, C1 Pro will apply it at 0% level by default but user can again change it while editing.
Cosina Voigtländer lenses for E-mount do support such optical correction profile data in EXIF and same corrections are applied for in-camera JPEGs based on camera settings (based on same EXIF profile data) too. User can control the corrections in-camera (automatic or off) and in C1 Pro (at any level from 0-100%).
Peire wrote:
Yet if it needs any optical corrections they must be minimal and supposedly easy done in PP.
Juha Kannisto wrote:
Cosina Voigtländer lenses for E-mount do support such optical correction profile data in EXIF and same corrections are applied for in-camera JPEGs based on camera settings (based on same EXIF profile data) too. User can control the corrections in-camera (automatic or off) and in C1 Pro (at any level from 0-100%).
Many thanks for your answers! Unfortunately I do not use Capture One and I don't think I should add another abo beside the one of Adobe just because of one lens. This means, that I will have to correct slight distortion manually, if required. Using JPGs out of camera is no option for me.
At the moment I can choose between using the focal length of 70 millimeters of my Sigma 28-70mm F2.8 DG DN and the use of the Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG DN. However, both ideas are not a great choice, when I have to take series of photos at the same place an (almost) the same place, because the rendering, especially of colors, of Sigma lenses and those of my Voigtlander ones are too different and cannot be matched in post-processing. Therefore, I often end up with crops out of 50 millimeters taken with my APO-Lanthar, which is not always a good choice, because I just have a Sony Alpha 7III, not a high resolution camera of the A7R series.
But I noticed for one of my older lenses, not by Voigtlander, that Adobe Lightroom might use in-built corrections of some lenses, though. Maybe this will also apply here.
Trisha wrote:
Many thanks for your answers! Unfortunately I do not use Capture One and I don't think I should add another abo beside the one of Adobe just because of one lens. This means, that I will have to correct slight distortion manually, if required. Using JPGs out of camera is no option for me.
At the moment I can choose between using the focal length of 70 millimeters of my Sigma 28-70mm F2.8 DG DN and the use of the Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG DN. However, both ideas are not a great choice, when I have to take series of photos at the same place an (almost) the same place, because the rendering, especially of colors, of Sigma lenses and those of my Voigtlander ones are too different and cannot be matched in post-processing. Therefore, I often end up with crops out of 50 millimeters taken with my APO-Lanthar, which is not always a good choice, because I just have a Sony Alpha 7III, not a high resolution camera of the A7R series.
But I noticed for one of my older lenses, not by Voigtlander, that Adobe Lightroom might use in-built corrections of some lenses, though. Maybe this will also apply here....Show more →
How about Sony GM 85/1.4 mark 1? It is excellent for portraits, (nicer than Sigma 85/1.4 DG DN), at around wide open and stopped down for other applications.Also distortions are negligible and colour rendition pleasant.Furthermore - it is nicely priced,especially second hand.
Peire wrote:
How about Sony GM 85/1.4 mark 1? It is excellent for portraits, (nicer than Sigma 85/1.4 DG DN), at around wide open and stopped down for other applications.Also distortions are negligible and colour rendition pleasant.Furthermore - it is nicely priced,especially second hand.
Many thanks, but I'm not looking for another portrait lens or other applications which work fine with the Sigma. The simple question for me is to have an addition, which matches the colors and other rendering of my other Voigtlander lenses so that I can create consistent photo series with different focal lenghts.
Trisha wrote:
Many thanks, but I'm not looking for another portrait lens or other applications which work fine with the Sigma. The simple question for me is to have an addition, which matches the colors and other rendering of my other Voigtlander lenses so that I can create consistent photo series with different focal lenghts.
That's why I built my travel kit around lenses from a single manufacturer, Voigtlander. It's easier to apply a single setting to different focal lengths, achieving consistent results without spending a lot of time on post-processing. As a reminder, I have a 21/1.4 ... 40/1.2 ... 75/1.5. Regarding geometric distortion, I don't photograph perfectly proportioned modern architecture, and old buildings have quite large deviations both vertically and horizontally, so the distortion introduced by the lens itself is unnoticeable.
DmitriyTver wrote:
That's why I built my travel kit around lenses from a single manufacturer, Voigtlander. It's easier to apply a single setting to different focal lengths, achieving consistent results without spending a lot of time on post-processing.
There is no manufacturer who builds perfect lenses for each subject. So I use Sony lenses for sports, animals and wildlife because of the fast and precise autofocus, Sigma for general standard, mainly including street and people and Voigtlander for landscape, plants and sometimes architecture, where a mechanical manual focus is more helpful and reliable than autofocus or manual focus by wire. Furthermore, the APO-Lanthar lenses are first choice for plants and gardens in general because of their very low amount of chromatic aberrations and their micro contrast. But I strictly avoid putting lenses of different manufacturers into my bags at the same time.
A long-term member of the German Sony Alpha forum, who currently is on a US trip, just bought this lens and the Nokton 28 mm f/1.5 two days ago at B&H in New York for a price far below European standards and already posted pictures taken in Manhattan yesterday evening, including portraits, night scenes and also architecture in critical light conditions in the part for lens-related pics (like e.g. here). Even in the vertical lines of the building just next to the right edge of the last picture I could not find visible distortion.
I take many photos of very modern buildings, but these typically do not have significant small details of photographical interest, so they are not subject to using a telephoto lens normally. But most of my architecture photos I also take in very old town quarters.
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