Re: Selling off my some of m-mount voigts for the Voigtlanders for Fuji
pechance wrote:
Thoughts? Am I crazy to go old school with MF? I have taken a couple photo trips with the older voigts and they did ok IQ-wise. I liked the small size. I hated that I had no EXIF information and had to remember to set the lens every time I changed lenses.
Thanks.
I hesitate to psychoanalyze publicly, so I won't try to answer the "and I crazy...?" question. ;-)
Yers ago, when we had little choice, I used cameras and lenses that were MF only. I can still become a bit nostalgic when I see and hold them.
But I'd never go back to them for street and travel photography when excellent modern AF lenses (that also MF just fine) are available from Fujifilm and others.
While it seems that some people [I]feel good[/I] about using the MF lenses, I haven't seen any evidence that their photography is generically better than that from people using more modern lenses.
Fujifilm has a bunch of excellent, small prime lenses that cover most of the size and focal length needs...
Re: Selling off my some of m-mount voigts for the Voigtlanders for Fuji
pechance wrote:
Thoughts? Am I crazy to go old school with MF? I have taken a couple photo trips with the older voigts and they did ok IQ-wise. I liked the small size. I hated that I had no EXIF information and had to remember to set the lens every time I changed lenses.
Thanks.
I hesitate to psychoanalyze publicly, so I won't try to answer the "and I crazy...?" question. ;-)
Yers ago, when we had little choice, I used cameras and lenses that were MF only. I can still become a bit nostalgic when I see and hold them.
But I'd never go back to them for street and travel photography when excellent modern AF lenses (that also AF) are available from Fujifilm and others.
While it seems that some people [I]feel good[/I] about using the MF lenses, I haven't seen any evidence that their photography is generically better than that from people using more modern lenses.
Fujifilm has a bunch of excellent, small prime lenses that cover most of the size and focal length needs...
Jan 13, 2026 at 01:31 PM
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