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The new Voigtländer 15mm f/4.5 Heliar III lens is now on preorder in [shoplink 33910 ebay]Germany (Here on Fotomundus)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 33949 ebay]Hong Kong (Here on Shenikon)[/shoplink] It costs 749 Euro or $899 and will ship on March 10. The lens has been redesigned by Voigtländer to improve the corner performance on the Sony A7 FF cameras. This means we can finally get a relative compact wide angle lens for decent money.
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Is it really designed for the Sony A7 series? The previous one was designed for film, and was terribly even on the Leica M9. I thought I had read this was redesigned for digital Leica. Given the difference in filter stack size between Leica and Sony, it can’t be optimal on both…(though I think if optimal for Sony it’ll be better on Leica that it would have been on Sony if optimal for Leica….)
Good point !!
It’s not clear from their website – just says “improved color shift correction”. Does the first version have colour issues on the m9?
If I recall correctly, yes, there’s issues with it on newer Leicas
Hmm…I wonder why they can’t make the lens hood detachable
Me2.
At least it has a usable filter thread of 58mm. But for the ones using a filter system it might be a no go.
I am using a Lee system, soft an hard grads, polarizer, several NDs, besides that I have b+w filters (vario ND and Cpol) for my FE lenses. For 58mm I would need to purchase additional ones…
In the feature. Voigtlander is gonna make every lens they have with e-mount. So someday i am shure that i can skip the adapter. And maybe they someday, is gonna make some kind of electronic device, so the camera can read what aperture the lens is using
The feature is now.
Too bad some people are illiterate and won’t get your joke. I cannot stop laughing for some reason
Why wait? They’d be first to the party now. I doubt Zeiss would like that.
I’v got the previous version of the lens (bought used on eBay for about 300 euros) and I really like it because it’s very light, small and great for city pictures and videos.
Of course there is this nasty purple fringe and heavy vignetting, but you can get nice pictures after corrections in Lightroom (I use two green filters -tint -41- on the left and right side of the picture to counter the purple fringe, +3 distortion and +22 vignetting as preset for every picture I take with this lens).
Here are a few samples :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/phychi/sets/72157645078325059/
850 huh. Hmm, well not to bad. I have to see the reviews. They have the market by it’s gonads with this one sooo.
The mount would suggest it’s not designed for a7. It looks like a great lens though, hopefully it’s better than the 17-40 f4 L canon lens, otherwise it seems rather expensive. Although it does look a lot smaller, so a price has to be paid for that
I made an article (in French) about this lens (and others) for the A7 a few month ago.
here : http://www.jlrichter.fr/2014/06/28/photo-le-sony-a7-et-ses-objectifs/
You will find photos (scroll down in the page) of the A7 + this Voigtlander 15mm (previous version but external design looks unchanged) under different angles.
Yes, optimized lenses generally have native mount for the camera they are optimized for… LOL.
By the way, the previous version was only 199g, very nice for traveling light !