Fred Miranda wrote:
She still would not care! My worse enabler.
You are a fortunate man Fred. You have a beautiful family, and a wise Wife. In the universe of addictions, a small lens habit is not going to ruin someone's life.
I am betting there is an offsetting habit on her side. In my Wife's case it is shoes. If in the "after life" I ever run into that guy "Jimmy Choo" we will have words....
1bwana1 wrote:
You are a fortunate man Fred. You have a beautiful family, and a wise Wife. In the universe of addictions, a small lens habit is not going to ruin someone's life.
I am betting there is an offsetting habit on her side. In my Wife's case it is shoes. If in the "after life" I ever run into that guy "Jimmy Choo" we will have words....
Hi, new to this forum. Hope I am not messing up this thread. I am looking forward receiving the Voigtlander apo 50mm in a couple of days. I have the 65mm and I am very impressed. Together with the a7riv is a dream.
Dgoullet, welcome! Both to the forum of the best camera brand for modern manual focus lenses, and to the latest hit from the quiet craftsmen at Cosina. It's a very different kind of 50mm with only one antecedent, the 'Luxicron' from Leica. Looking through reviews of that 50AA, it's easy to see the similarities despite many images being BW, as an artistic choice.
This one will no doubt provide us with many more such examples. You'll be at home with this AL, similar to the 65/2 but with rapid focus actuation and almost half the weight. I have to make special note of the really fine bokeh, obvious even in the EVF. All the best for your setting and material. I'm here over the summer solstice in Hobart, same latitude as Toronto or Florence. A real acid test of light handling.
That is an easy one for me. I have my own gem mines in Africa, and the ability to cut stones, and make jewelry. She just takes what she wants, and I am good with that.
As I wrote a few days ago I had to check every German online shop to find one and in the end I probably got the very last one of the batch.
I received mine and I did test checking for decentering: I got a perfect centered lens!
That lens is sharp and shows details that's nuts! So many modern and legacy Zeiss lenses in my bag need to go now.
I tried Leica's offering in the HQ in Wetzlar: SL & M with the Summicron 50mm f/2.0 APO M. That lens blew me away when I saw the files.
As one of you guys already mentioned: Even with my current combo A7Rm3 plus CV Apo-Lanthar 50mm f/2.0 put Leica in a very bad position from the price performance ratio standpoint.
Interesting Voigtlander fact, I work in the camera retail/prolab side of things but a friend of mine works more in wholesale and deals with Voigtlander. They get a schedule sent to them by the factory of when each lens production run is and how many units will get assembled. The allocations can be quite far apart.
They have to order based on this. So what it means for the end user is, if you don't get one on the current run and they are popular, you will wait some time for the next production run of them.
Although I've tried to follow this thread, the few photos that I recall at apertures other than 2, 2.8 and 8 seem to have emphasized bokeh balls rather than more typical scenes with somewhat complex backgrounds. (Here I'm thinking of the sort of examples that Fred posted in his review of the Sigma 45/2.8.) If I've missed them, could someone please direct me to such samples that might indicate how the unusual aperture shape affects images at middling apertures? Thanks.
