There was an old SL, SL II image thread, but no one has posted on that for about a year and I thought with all the mirrorless lenses it might make sense to put both SL and M Voigtlander lenses together. I know I would be interested in seeing both the M 90 f/3.5 APO and the SL or SL II 90 f/3.5 APO in the same thread. They have such different form factors and even MFDs but are supposed to have the same or similar optics.
Anyway, I recently got a SL II 90 F/3.5 APO and finally got to shoot it this weekend at my parent\'s farm. An interesting lens so far. With its short MFD I found I was able to get pretty shallow depth of field on portraits if I took them up close. The first post of my son it was actually shallower than I expected and only the back eye is in sharp focus. I am finding I like the bokeh behind the focus plan with close focus shots.
The second shot is at a mid distance (about 30 or 40 feet). This shot is blisteringly sharp at full resolution. That is the good news. The bad news is that at this distance the bokeh is not that impressive. I have certainly seen worse, but I much prefer my Zeiss ZE 100 MP for this type of shot.
The third and the fourth are flower close up. The lens did great for theses. Maybe just a tiny bit less sharp than my Zeiss ZE 100 MP, but just maybe. The 90 APO is pretty close to full sharpness wide open, but that isn\'t very surprising give the relatively small max aperture.
Jun 09, 2014 at 10:40 AM
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