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The following text is from Ingo Schäder (Thanks!:
“Yesterday I tested the NEW Voigtlaender 15mm M-Mount on the Sony A7 yesterday and … it is awesome on the A7 !!! In this link you have a lot of test pictures (from the booth) you can post along with my findings if you want.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rxrw6ol4u4hxdi3/AACeymu1npFSH798kQHsgkima?dl=0
Right now I use an Sony A7 and an A6000 with various manuell lenses (and some Sony lenses) and I´m kind of happy with everything…Except for the fact that there is (was !) no small “rangefinder like” ultra-wide angle available for the A7/A7r series which works well…Yesterday I visited Photokina in Cologne (1 hour drive from where I live) and had the chance to check out the new Voigtlaender 15mm for M-Mount II !! I was really happy that I had my A7 and my Leica M to NEX with me when I heard that I could use it on my own camera and take pictures with it J (Delivery should start in February 2015!!!)So, I thought I would give my findings to you and all lovers of the A7 series. Summary:
I could see no or maybe a REALLY small amount of color cast in the corners ! (maybe it was only a tiny bit of vignette?)
I could see no or maybe a REALLY tiny bit of vignette !
The sharpness is nice and NOT much mush in the corners !
I sold my 15mm M39 only 1 week before so I can tell you, that the differences are HUGE ! I will preorder it for my A7 the day it becomes available ! (depending on the price of course) No word on the price so far, but I´m really looking forward to February 2015 and not only because I have my birthday there… 😉
Thx everyone and good night.
Best regards,
Ingo Schäder
www.Fotoingo.com
Translated from the german specs sheet :
Super Wide Heliar 15mm F4,5 VM II aspherical
Here we proudly present a completly new ultra wide angle lens :
Current high resolution digitalcameras are demanding and so they often need a new lens construction to satisfy those megapixels in regard to sharpness, detail, colour and so on.
A lot less colour-shift in the corners even (when combined with really high resolution)
and better contrast, especially when using the widest aperture, are the main differences between the current and the NEW Heliar 15mm.
The NEW 15mm Heliar consists of 11 elements in nine groups.“
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VM rules!
Yes, exactly so!
we need some more accurate tests
I missed the announcement of this lens.
Wow. Why did this lens go so low key?
Thanks, Ingo! 🙂
What about the A7R? As far as I remember, the A7 used to cooperate better with rangefinder wide-angle lenses right from the start, while the A7R was the more difficult camera, prone to significant edge-falloff with such lenses.
True. But this lens seems to perform so much better on the A7 that maybe on the A7R the problems will be kept to a dull roar. I traded in my old version 15 after seeing its performance on my A7R.
There are/will be other options, but not this small, and small is the whole point of the A7 series….
Smearing is the same. A7R just have more color shift and vignette. After correcting those, you might have a slightly worse corner/edge than on the A7.
So that bursts the no wide angle myth…
Sweet. I own the L39 version and love using it on film. Ever since migrating to digital it’s been sitting in my cabinet. If the price is right I’ll definitely grab this.
What I find funny is that if Sony or Zeiss was selling this lens all the cry babies on this site would be complaining that it’s too slow. I also don’t see much point to autofocus on a lens this wide. Personally I think that at this focal length I’d rather have size than speed or AF.
Believe it or not, I did never buy one becuse too slow for my needs. I tried one once on my NEX-7 and was not so delighted, the Tokina 12-24/4 performs better, specially concerning CA and corner sharpness where the Tokina is 98% sharp all over the picture, the corners are a bitty unsharp, but nothing one could say about that it disturbs. The advantage of this lens is it’s size. But here again, my Sony 16mm pancake does the job as well. Stopped down to 5.6 it does excellent shots.
Looks like heavy CA’s correction was applied to it.
Ingo here.
The 15mm had some CAs which I corrected a bit in LR.
I used NO correction against vignetting and I think this is one of the nice achievements of VL
Almost no light falloff and much better sharpness in the corners compared to the old M-Mount and M39 Versions 🙂
@ greenlens : The last shot was taken at home so not with the 15mm.
@Vivek : You´re welcome. I wasn´t in the Getdpi Forums in the last months.. Maybe I should rejoin them 😉
@ Hubertus : I own only the A7 so no pics from the A7r 🙁