Thank you very much, they were actually shot quickly at lunchtime today.
So actually not particularly good light.
When I'm out and about here in my immediate surroundings, I like to take a few test shots of a subject quickly, so that I can get a feel for the scene, try out a few perspectives, a few handheld panoramas and then come back on another day.
Then with a tripod and nodal adapter in much better lighting conditions.
So it's something like one of my upcoming targets that I go back to when the light, the lighting mood has that certain extra something, can also be fog, but just that certain kick.
That way I already know what to expect and have some images and perspectives stored in my head.
I like to explore a location first with just a fixed focal length, without any additional equipment, because you simply have more freedom when looking for perspective than if you also had a heavy tripod + nodal adapter, filters, backpack, etc. dragged along.
This way, the next time I visit, I already know suitable spots, which I can then target with complete equipment.
The Nodal Adapter for panoramas gives me additional freedom of perspective with the Apo-Lanthar.
For example, this is a quick panorama from the hand, where a few of the vertical shots were blurred, the front primarily.
Other things such as exact alignment and sufficient space for perspective corrections in post do not play a role at first.
That will come the next time I go there with full equipment, filters CPL, ND and a tripod.
But I already know what I want, now I just need a day with the right lighting mood. Burg Hülshoff handheld Pano by Vento, auf Flickr
Yes, for the 35/2 Apo-Lanthar my workflow always uses DXO PL6/DXO Pure Raw first, because it implements a native lens profile for the Z-mount version.
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Yes, for the 35/2 Apo-Lanthar my workflow always uses DXO PL6/DXO Pure Raw first, because it implements a native lens profile for the Z-mount version.
Very nice, I'm considering selling CV M35/2 Ultron for a Z 35mm APO. Any thoughts? BTW, DXO PureRAW4 is great.
I can't comment on the Ultron for lack of personal experience, but I can highly recommend the CV 35/2 AL-Z, especially if you do a lot of landscape, architecture, night/cityscapes.
Definitely an exceptional lens and my absolute favorite despite my extensive lens collection in this area.
Ultimately, the CV 35/2 AL-Z + CV 50/2 AL-Z are already so well corrected optically, with negligible optical distortion, that you don't even need a dedicated lens profile.
The lens sets standards, not only in terms of resolution already wide open, fine resolution, correction of color aberrations, but also in the area of coma, field curvature - it's a flat-field lens.
The new 12-blade aperture mechanism with the different shapes of the aperture blades is also an innovative detail that can be used in a creative way.
Outstanding MFD performance thanks to the floating group design comes on top, so in my opinion the lens is worth every penny.
Only vignetting/optical vignetting is present as a pronounced aberration in the open aperture, everything else is already optically corrected to the absolute top level for this focal length, so that a lens profile is basically unnecessary.
However, the Apo-Lanthar manages the balancing act between exceptionally well corrected, with enormously high resolution, exceptional fine details, enormously rich in contrast, without appearing clinical.
For the range of tasks where the best aspects of an Apo-Lanthar really come into their own, this is an exceptional lens that has long since earned a special place in my lens collection.
The greatest compliment you can pay a lens is if you use it frequently and with great pleasure, and that is definitely the case here.
The only drawback, although I own various high-quality solutions in the 50mm range, the CV 50/2 AL-Z calls out to me like the "One Ring" calls out to its owner.
So far I have been able to resist, but deep down I know that the battle is already lost.
"One Lens to rule them all, One Lens to find them, One Lens to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
Is anyone using the Voigtlander 15mm f4.5 Z for landscape photography?
I don't do a lot of ultra wide photography and would prefer not to spend 2x on the 14-30 or 4x on the 14-24 f2.8.
If you use this lens for landscapes, like seascapes/expansive shots, I'd love to read about your experience and see what you've done.
My first try shooting Fon with my new Voitlander 50:1.0.
Super difficult to nail focus at f1.0 but gets a lot easier at f2.0..........it was a lot of fun using this lens on my Nikon Z9 and I love the rendering of this lens
Bob, I have the 1st version of the Tech-Art, it works well with the Voigtlanders. I have the 40mm f1.2 and 21mm f1.4 but there are some issues that sometimes are very problematic:
- Removing the lens of the adapter, or removing the lens+adapter of the camera, sometimes it gets stuck on it.
- Removing the adapter cover (sometimes it gets stuck) there are plenty info in the internet about this issue.
- Updating the adapter with my iMac was impossible as it never recognize the adapter, I had to use a laptop with the latest windows version.
otherwise I'll go for some Nikon Z 50mm 1.8S and that's it 
