After much consideration I decided to give myself a Voitländer APO-Lanthar 35mm Z-mount as a birthday present. Between work, my daughters activates, caring for my old parents and a rave party I haven’t really had any time for concentrated photography. But I still want to share some pictures and impressions, mainly unedited so you can se how it interacts with the Nikon Zf (standard picture control) on grey days.
My first impressions, the APO-Lanthar is great. Sharpness, cotrasts and colors are incredible. And I love my strange hometown, Malmö.
I did some boring indoor pixel-peeping at 1 meter distance, compairing to my 40mm Ultron SLII and Color-Skopar 35/2.5. Both center and corners are impressive on the APO-Lanthar (but the old LTM Color-Skopar aint bad). I also compaired it to the ASP-C Macro APO Ultron D35mm on the Zfc, could really find any diference under that circumstance.
Jepser wrote:
Day 2, passed a Newroz celebration in my local park.
"Newroz"?? Persians celebrate what is generally written as "Nowruz", and Baha'is also (originally from Persia), spelled "Naw-Ruz", on the Spring Equinox as the first day of a new year. Is that what you meant?
Lightsearcher wrote:
La Sagrada Familia - Barcelona
Voigtlander 21mm F1.4 E mount - Techart E-Z adapter - Z6
Hi Marcelo!
According to this thread: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1845120/0
the Sony 20G shows softer borders when adapted on Nikon bodies.
Did you ever observe borders/corners problems (most likely related to difference in sensor stack thickness) when adapting the 21/1.4?
Thanx.
I think it has to do with scenery/lightning. Or maybe hallucinations Under other circumstances it has more structured bokeh, but I was aware of that when I decided to get it.
Ripolini wrote:
Hi Marcelo!
According to this thread: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1845120/0
the Sony 20G shows softer borders when adapted on Nikon bodies.
Did you ever observe borders/corners problems (most likely related to difference in sensor stack thickness) when adapting the 21/1.4?
Thanx.
Cheers,
Riccardo
Hi Riccardo, my copy is very sharp even at f1.4 so sharpness is not an issue but vignetting is really heavy. For my kind of photography vignetting is not really an issue but it has a small amount of wave distortion very noticeable and hard to correct in PS when I shoot architecture.
The lens is not perfect but at some point I like their imperfections.
Under other circumstances it has more structured bokeh, but I was aware of that when I decided to get it.
