Image courtesy: DSLRmagazine
The new Voigtlander Heliar 15mm III lens is an exciting little jewel that my will find its way in my bag soon 🙂 And if you want to see how good the lens works on Sony A7 cameras check out the image samples and test posted by Mopswerk on SonyAlphaForum. His 1st impressions are:
#1 The purple edges of the old lens versions are gone
#2 Some purple fringes at the edges
#3 quite a heavy vignette / light fall off#2 and #3 probably can be fixed in post (#1 with the old lenses could only be fixed with additional efforts). It’s still a tiny lens (the 1st images showing the lens implied a bigger size) and I like the metal finish of the Voigtlanders.
Distorion is very low.
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@Admin,
A poll on uncompressed raw?
See who wants/needs it?
I think everyone would want it even if we acknowledge it as a non issue.
I still want this lens badly! Hopefully there will be a smaller FF-Body without a viewfinder soon. It would be the perfect match for my RX1.
Has anyone used the Voigtländer M mount 12mm f5.6 and/or 35mm f1.4 on any A7x?
35/1.2 II is fine on a7R, almost no cast, or maybe it blends in well with the universal purple shade across the frame wide open? I actually like the purple shade so I prefer not to stop down the lens. Don’t know about the slower one but it should be better.
here is the 12mm Heliar on the A7R uncorrected.
you may not like it!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dierktopp/10999472596/in/set-72157637947047035
but for B/W images it may as well be usable.
What the reviewer calls “purple in the corners” actually looks very much like CA. Absolutely different, and easy to clean up.
I have the original 15mm that I used on film (and on an R-D1). I’m definitely going to pick this version up. I love the build quality of CV lenses (I have others) and optically they’re quite nice. This will be great for landscapes and travel.
“falloff corrected in post” That’s practically useless with UWA, why not just make it uniformly 2 stops slower without falloff? It’s easier to “correct” in post by just pulling the exposure too.
Not sure if it’s the photographer’s sample or the lens but it looks not very good. Not impressed in the slightest. My Rokinon 12 f/2 has less vignette and captures much more detail. Even the Canon FD 24 2.8 looks better than this.