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rscheffler wrote:
Difficult to tell how much sarcasm extends to your comment to cancel the 35 Cron APO deposit.
It's only my 2¢, but it's the internet, so I'll post anyway.
Based solely on images posted online, the Voigtlander is great when you don't care about wider aperture background rendering at medium distances and are fine with its size. Its physical design should be of no concern to anyone not using an M system given that it's already very compact compared to other 35mm mirrorless and DSLR lenses. But on an M camera, the VM is large, already larger than the 50 Lux ASPH. The 50 is acceptable because viewfinder blockage of 50mm frame lines is reasonable. But with the VM being larger and 35mm, viewfinder blockage becomes more obvious, and probably annoying. IMO this is where Leica, once again, and with Leica's price premium, offers a more harmonious M system experience. It's physically smaller yet also very sharp and with what appears to be more pleasing OOF rendering at all distances. Maybe the VM is fractionally sharper? I don't know. Maybe the VM has better colour response? I don't know. Will you care if you don't like using the VM on an M? This I know will bother you to no end.
Isn't this why you have the 35 Cron APO on order?
If mostly shooting stopped down, maybe just stick with your 35 Lux or VM 35/2. ...Show more →
I was being totally sarcastic about cancelling my 35 Cron APO order, Ron. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the strengths of the CV APO-Lanthar 35, which I know from personal experience is a wonderful lens, so much so that I have exempted it and its 50mm sibling from my deCosinafication program. But, as you point out, on a Leica M it’s just a little too large and I know from the samples I’ve seen that the 35 Cron APO will suit me perfectly well optically and—equally importantly from my perspective—its size and haptics make for what you correctly describe as a more harmonious M system experience.
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