The official Voigtlander US seller Camerquest said that “We estimate delivery in April” for the new Voigtlander FE lenses.
The official Voigtlander US seller Camerquest said that “We estimate delivery in April” for the new Voigtlander FE lenses.
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The price of compact full frame lenses: f5.6 maximum apertures!
well, obviously Cosina makes lenses for photographers, not spec lovers.
You mean for brick shooters? Wide aperture opens up a lot of possibilities, they’re useless to you if you shoot a brick wall and just admire the sharpness though.
Its always a trade-off. These are light weight landscape lenses. When i buy one of those, i like to know that they are superb around 8, not that they put in tons of extra glass to make the specs look better.
Since when did i need 2.8 or 1.4 for landscape or interior shots?
You need f/1.4 for interior, if it were lit by candles to preserve the atmosphere. I never got those ugly HDR interior shots, they did nothing but to try to show all the furniture available, and looked nothing like actually being in that house.
No, only you need 1.4. Must be shocking to see also the canon 11-24 F4???
And how do you believe people see anything when only the candles are in focus and everything else is blurry? EXACTLY!
People the aperture is used to get deeper depth of field and then compensate it with the shutter speed and ISO. You don’t crank widest aperture because you want things to be out of focus!
That does not happen with UWA, people also DO NOT need to see every single detail. It ruins the atmosphere as I already said.
Low light without a tripod? Not saying you need 1.4 but 2.8 seems like a practical minimum for a wide angle prime.
Low light? That is the thing where you can’t use the shallow depth of field!
You need to use f/5.6-16 range on 35mm for even for most of the time and rarely you get to go under f/5.6 to get subject in focus when using 35mm format.
If there is low light, you compensate it with either slower shutter speed or then bumping ISO up.
Nonsense, on ultra-wide primes like these there’s adequate depth of field at wider apertures than f5.6! Both higher ISO and slower shutter speeds being their own compromises.
No, really, no. There must be a way around it. But nobody’s willing to go that way because of costs and stuff. The old Summilux 35 was pretty small, but gave way to a bigger but better performing one. Seems like the main problem is that people won’t sacrifice wide open performance for speed? MSOptic’s 35/1.4 is tiny, and if tweaked with aspherical elements, I believe the performance could be good enough for the majority of usages, while keeping the same weight. Those who could make it, will not; those who will make it, can not.
There are plenty of small semi-fast to fast full frame lenses from the 70s and 80s and on M mount, but they’re just about all manual focus. It seems like modern optical designs and AF mechanisms just can’t be miniaturised that much or it would have been done.
Well, that’s a step back, then.
So they announced it half a year before shipping…hmmm. Sounds like they haven’t gotten past the design stage when they announced the lenses.
So Voigtländer is rephrasing the UWA to only 84 degree field of view. And there is no such thing as “Super Wide Angle”.