I returned my Steel Rim reissue due to stiff focusing. Didn't like the focus shift, either. My v2 didn't have that level of focus shift, but never tried the original Steel Rim.
Your Voigtlander has the Steel Rim beat with regard to:
– Focusing smoothness out of the box
– No fumbling around with an infinity lock
– Hoods work with filters
– External design seems nicer – the wide mouth on the reissue makes it look too thick to me
– 0.7m MFD
– Price
Steel Rim does better (and why I would buy it again if I did):
– Glow at f/1.4
– Less distortion
–Rainbow arc flare (take it or leave it – I feel it's too cartoonish for some subjects) ...Show more →
Thanks for the feedback. Will you get another copy of the steel rim reissue, or another v2?
I’m really enjoying the CV much more than I thought I would!
Picked up an m9-p and the colors this thing pulls out are just wild. Going to have to change up how I edit. Imported this to LR, -10 sat, export. Reds and greens for weeks
While I have not posted the first image below before, the second is reprocessed and the third slightly reframed. All three are part of a 24-photo series that I would like to exhibit. You can read about that in my Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/p/CsV913aOlMI/
or simply by clicking on the Instagram icon on the left side of this post.
The series starts with an image of a large tuna at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo and continues sequentially until the last image, a selfie. In the first post, you can read the concept statement for the series; you may also want to read the text for the shopping cart image below, which is the 16th image in the series.
Instagram being what it is, there haven’t been any comments on the series as a whole, and I would be interested in reactions, which you cam post on my Instagram, considering that this Leica thread being for images rather than for discussions.
M10 | DR Summicron | ISO 3200 | f/5.6 | 1/2000 sec Bangkok
