Oldwino wrote:
Both Leitz and both look marvelous on the camera!
I’d then take one shot w the 35, one with the 50 and compare your framing results.
In my ‘tests’ the Cv 40 is quite a bit wider then my Rollei Sonnar 40. And the results do seem closer to 35mm coverage.
First impressions - a tiny jewel-like lens. Solid. Really well made. Even it’s “idiosyncrasies”, like the infinity lock, or the rotating aperture ring, feel good and somehow comforting to a user of many older lenses from the 1930-1950 eras.
One thing I think Voigtlander missed on - they should have designed the barrel to fit the old A36 type filters with the locking screw.
No photo results yet - still shooting a roll with the lens in my 1939 III (a/f).
Developed my test roll - an older roll of HP5 I had on the desk. The lens is very sharp on film, probably the sharpest LTM lens I own, and contrasty. Lovely rendering wide open, a little old-school touch of swirl with the right background.
p.10 #13 · Voigtlander 40mm f/2.8 Heliar VM Review
This lens is so good, it's giving me Sigma 45 2.8 C vibes but better?
As it would just so happen, I had a 49mm Kenko No. 5 just lying around (maybe waiting for this moment) and lo and behold, I can just stick it over the hood of the 40 for fast LV macro.
Attached is MFD and INF at 2.8, pretty sharp!
Unrelated, this Vi Vante strap also is excellent. I think I'm completed my mono aesthetics configuration lol
btw, the lens seems to reset the lens profile each time? also i can also confirm it mounts a little tight and left some black residue, gonna clean each time maybe will break in
edit: now it's working lol, the focus was hard to turn first mount, maybe it didnt couple all the way. now it doesn't reset and turns normally hope i didnt break anything already.
i think it was the lens not seating 100% (not having the LV "no lens detected" issue anymore), I unmounted and mounted a few times and cleaned the residue and now it's fine. dunno if it's reproducible.
p.10 #14 · Voigtlander 40mm f/2.8 Heliar VM Review
Fred Miranda wrote:
It's strange that it's not how this works with my M10-R. Perhaps this behavior varies depending on camera model.
The CV 40/2.8 Heliar VM black version gives me the "No Lens Mounted!" alert in LV mode whenever the camera is set to auto. If Lens Detection is set to "manual", I can choose a Leica lens and it works fine but once I turn the camera off, it forgets the chosen lens and I get the error again.
With the 40/2.8 Heliar VM silver, LD works perfectly with no errors in either auto or manual.
I am having the same issue with my new black 40/2.8 and M10-R. I’m glad it not just me I guess. Is there a fix for this?
Edit: now today I can’t get LV at all with the Black 40. It briefly goes to LV but then the screen goes blank. If I manually select a lens, LV briefly flashes then goes to Automatic selection. Weird.
p.10 #16 · Voigtlander 40mm f/2.8 Heliar VM Review
Yeah I had to clean a few times after mounting and unmounting, also make sure it clicks in. I noticed the LV flashing thing happened when it wasn't 100% rotated in. There was a lot of paint residue so maybe that was afffecting fitment which affected the LV thing for coding.
Also I did sell this lens but I kind of want another one lol
p.10 #17 · Voigtlander 40mm f/2.8 Heliar VM Review
Fred Miranda wrote:
You're welcome. The Leica Summaron-M 28mm f/5.6 has the same filter thread size (34mm), so its push on cap may fit the Voigtlander 40mm f/2.8 Heliar.
I ordered 2 of these in Black. They arrived today and while they look nice, neither one fits my 40/2.8. I have a plastic 36mm push on cap that fits fine. Maybe the plastic has just enough give where the metal does not.
p.10 #18 · Voigtlander 40mm f/2.8 Heliar VM Review
BruceRH wrote:
I ordered 2 of these in Black. They arrived today and while they look nice, neither one fits my 40/2.8. I have a plastic 36mm push on cap that fits fine. Maybe the plastic has just enough give where the metal does not.
Get the cheapo Tiffen filter. Quoting myself in this thread:
Desmolicious wrote:
The glass was really easy to remove from the Tiffen filter - just unscrew the retaining ring. Which is good because it can be put back in if I ever want that..
The upside is the Tiffen filter ring acts as a mini lenshood. Very reminiscent of what Leica offered for the 50 2.8M. Only bummer is it has Tiffen written on it, and that other stuff. Edit - ugly white text covered up with black felt marker.
