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19 Responses
Not sure why ANYONE would buy this!? I have the Nocticron and the Voigtlander F0.95 lenses. With a track record like Voigtlander, I would be really hard pressed to give this questionable lens a go at any price point! :/
You have to wonder what happened with the 10mm f/0.95 Voigtländer, with their track record.
I thought about this Handevision lens at the discounted price for weeks but I can’t see spending the money on any of these manual lenses.
Not much wrong with the Voigtlander 10mm f/0.95 other than unrealistic expectations and bashing from people who never even tried the lens based on some reviews. It’s not worse than the 17.5mm f/0.95, does that lens get bashed over and over again?
The 17.5mm is a good lens, but apparently the 10mm is so flawed that it should have been re-designed before its release. It took so long, I thought that they were going to cancel it. Everything I’ve seen from sites I trust, I wouldn’t spend the money.
Cue jeffharris in 3…2…1
“apparently”
If we take the most flaming review on the internet given by Lenstip and look at their numbers on both lenses: the corners on the 10.5mm are just about the same as on the 17.5mm on the whole aperture range (some apertures the 10.5mm wins by a tiny margin and sometimes it’s the other way around).
Wide open the center of the 10.5mm is a lot sharper than the 17.5mm (52 lpmm vs 39 lpmm). Closed down the 17.5mm wins but by a lesser margin (78 lpmm vs 71 lpmm).
At distortion the 10.5mm wins by a small margin, and the same goes for the vignetting number. One guess which one fares a bit better on CA as well? Right, the 10.5mm. Until f/5.6 it’s under 0.1% and the 17.5mm is continuously around 0.12%.
Only number left: coma. Sure, if you want to focus only on that bit the 17.5mm wins, but it doesn’t handle coma well itself either.
So I want to ask you, on which points exactly does the 10.5mm differ enough from the 17.5mm to call one lens “good” and the other “so flawed that it should have been re-designed before its release”?
Did you actually have a 10mm Voigt. I soooooo waited for that lens and my experience was NOT good. Soft…soft…soft on the edges, even when the aperture was closed down. I have a 25mm Voigt and LOVE it. …and incredibly unique tool. Just great.
My seller looked at the 10mm when I sent it back and agreed with me…
For the price…I was not looking for a Lens Baby…which is what mine basically performed like. I just bought a Sigma 20mm f/1.4 for my FF system. That lens (aside from the AF) would perform similarly to the 10mm Voigt. The Sigma is spectacular. The Voigtlander 10mm for me was a huge disappointment. Only lens I have sent back because of performance in years…many years.
Yes, and I also owned the 25mm and the 17.5mm. My experience is different from yours, and while even Lenstip didn’t have a worse copy than their 17.5mm looking at the numbers maybe you got very unlucky with yours.
Not going to talk about the Voigtlander as I haven’t tried it myself. But I can guess by specs alone that the Ibelux is a niche and fills a gap (unlike the array of 25mm 0.95s available).
F/0.85 at 40mm should have amazing background separation. If the sharp areas are sharp enough. I prefer the 75mm Olympus because the combination of range and F/1,8 does a great job of creating undistorted portraits with great background separation.
Taking it down to 40mm and dropping the F-stop by almost 1 should create similar results at the lower range. Not quite ideal for close-up portraits due to distortion, but still does something unique. I have no need for it. But I do like the specs. But not the price… I’d want AF at that price.
Well, the f-stop on this is probably far off from the actual T-stop. That would render it in similar range of any 35/50mm f/0.95, perhaps even the 42.5mm f/1.2’s.
And… still not getting it.
Not sure what Handevision and those Meyer Görlitz guys are thinking…
These should be priced around ZY Optics/Zhongyi & SLR Magic level. Their latest additions come in at around 399 USD.
Btw, these are actually already as Chinese as the ZY Optics/Zhongyi and SLR Magic. Although it might not ring any bells that it’s ‘Designed by IB/E OPTICS in Germany – Manufactured by Shanghai Transvision in China’. They’re the ones working together as well on the Kipon Baveyes adapters (‘Bav’ as in ‘Bavaria’; Bayern, Germany). So basically, they’re Kipon lenses.
I do find their to be released IBERIT set rather gorgeous and the prices are more like it (according DPReview ‘Prices are a bit vague at the moment, but HandeVision says the lenses will cost between $480 and $660 depending on the model’)… but a f/2.4 line-up!? That’s rather funky. The optical construction and number of aperture blades also don’t give much reason for excitement.
A good lens for sure, as Lenrentals’ Cicala stated after testing it, and the discount might even start making it somewhat attractive. Personally, though, I’m happy with what I have – a manual 50mm f/1.4, an even better manual combination of Speed Booster plus 85/2 making a very decent 60mm f/1.4, and just recently I acquired a Four Thirds mount Sigma 50mm f/1.4 – an astonishingly sharp lens that can be found for something like $ 250 / 200 € / 150 £ with a very decent AF on the E-M1. For me, that’s as much portrait-tele beauty as I’ll probably ever going to need…
Why would anyone buy a 1.2kg lens for mFT that in the bottom line gives you the same DOF and total light gathering of an 80mm F/1.7! .If shallow DOF shooting is that important to you then other formats make far more sense It weighs more than the 12-40mm F/2.8 and 40-150mm F/2.8 combined
80mm f/0.85 in term of light gathering. 80mm f/1.7 in term of DoF.
It is total light gathering that matters {Total Light = Exposure x Effective Sensor Area} ,which is exactly what I posted The flat earth society approach to equivalence that gets spouted by ill-informed mFT fans is beyond tedious.
Garbage!
I got an SLR Magic 25mm T0.95 Hyperprime Cine on ebay, mint condition open box for almost half the discount price of this lens on B&H. Much better me thinks.
Sadly, it still falls down at that price. Admiring Light compared it to a 55/f1.2 with a focal reducer that was better in every respect.