I went to Odaiba (Tokyo Teleport station) and walked to Ariake and beyond, then crossed some bridges and walked to Ginza before returning to Ebisu by train. A very long walk
Most of them were taken at f5.6 or wide open at f1.5. There are no shots stopped down further than f5.6 there. Several of the wide open shots were taken at or very close to MFD. I didn't use a helicoid adapter today so there are no samples focused closer than 0.5m so far. When it started getting dark I also used some intermediate apertures more to keep ISO low. Most of the shopfront shots in the dark were taken wide open.
I think the colors and contrast are typical Voigtländer and similar to e.g. 28/2 II (punchy and well saturated). The lens seems to have great flare-resistance and there was no problem shooting against the sun at all. Tested with some artificial lights, 12-point sunstars are pretty well formed already at f2 and perfect at least by f4.
The next aperture stop after f1.5 is f2, there's no half-stop between those 2.
I didn't shoot much at f1.5 from longer distances with background further away but there might be a couple of samples like that as well. I don't usually test for CA especially but I didn't notice any in my shots so far... I hope Fred can cover those areas in his test much better.
When shooting more I noticed that hard infinity actually worked fine with this lens with my spec-accurate Rayqual adapter for infinity shots when the targets are really far away (it was the best setting for center, midfield, edges and corners), so I ended up using hard infinity a lot. In my early testing where I had to pull back a hair from hard infinity, I think the buildings I was shooting were not far enough in the end.
So far I'm very happy with how the lens performs on my A7C so it's definitely a keeper for me. The usability aspects are also excellent, nothing to complain about so far.
I'll get some shots of the lens on Camera afterwards and will post here.
Nov 24, 2022 at 07:02 AM
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