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 p.4 #7 · Thypoch 28mm f/1.4 Lens | |
RoamingScott wrote:
The price of something means little to me, and on the flip side, I'm more than willing to pay for quality. I don't let a company off the hook because of a black friday price.
This doesn't really have anything to do with letting it go.
If there were several alternatives that would be better suited to my needs and preferences, then maybe.
The essential criterion for me with any lens is finding the aesthetically pleasing rendering that best suits my intended use.
I subordinate everything to that; whether it's chipped or unchipped, or whether there are some marginal corner sharpness losses is a completely secondary consideration for me when buying the Thypoch.
I'm looking for a fast, moderately wide-angle lens, primarily for environmental portraits during family and friends activities, with a very harmonious, cinematic rendering and plenty of pop in the close-up and mid-range.
From what I've seen, the Thypoch comes closest in that focal range and speed category at least within my price range.
A rendering style that inspires and is already generating creative ideas for me, even before it arrives.
That's what matters most to me!
Is it the right tool to generate the look I envision for the intended application, and does it complement my existing palette, which already includes many highly corrected and extremely high-resolution lenses, by offering a different approach.
Especially since the factor of compactness and reduction also plays a role.
I have enough bulky lenses among my existing ones; solutions like an adapted Nikon AF-S 28/1.4 E with FTZ or an Otus 28/1.4 with FTZ are absolutely out of the question, not least for cost reasons.
Sure, I could afford a Voigtländer Nokton 28mm f/1.5 Z, but it doesn't meet my needs to the same extent, and neither licensing, chipping, nor filter stack optimization would change that.
I don't see it, like the previous poster, as a temporary solution for a Z-mount version of the VM 28/2 Apo Lanthar.
So if I were concerned with optical perfection, the highest possible resolution and maximum sharpness consistency right to the corners, then I wouldn't be interested in the Thypoch.
If I want that look, if I want to photograph things that benefit from it, then I have my 35mm Apo Lanthar.
The current price makes it easier to forgo convenience features like chipped, but the decisive criterion for me is the rendering, which I find very appealing.
So, you could say I won't let factors like being unchipped and not optimized for Z-mount spoil my enjoyment of this lens, as it seems to fulfill all the essential requirements for me: focal length, speed, rendering style, high-quality mechanical construction, and currently an outstanding price.
To categorically reject this lens on principle, because of ultimately minor details that will rarely affect me in practice with this lens, makes no sense to me, if it otherwise fully meets the criteria that are decisive for me in this special case.
I've been photographing with manual focus lenses without focus confirmation for over 40 years and still do, so this Typoch lens isn't going to keep me up at night because it's unchipped.
Edited on Oct 29, 2025 at 07:48 PM · View previous versions
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However good their M glass is, or how cheap their sales go holds no weight with the things I want as a Z shooter.