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Voigtlaender Super Wide Angle Lenses  

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  1. 1. Which of the Voigtlaender Super Wide Angle Lenses are interesting for you?

    • 10 mm F 5,6 Hyper-Wide-Heliar
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    • 12 mm F 5,6 Ultra-Wide-Heliar
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    • 15 mm F 4,5 Super-Wide-Heliar
      81
    • None of them
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Voigtlaender today announced three super wide angle lenses for Sony E-Mount:

  • 10 mm F 5,6 Hyper-Wide-Heliar
  • 12 mm F 5,6 Ultra-Wide-Heliar
  • 15 mm F 4,5 Super-Wide-Heliar

The 12mm and 15mm lenses are known constructions which are available for the Leica M mount, but the 10mm is completely new.

 

All of them are pretty interesting for architecture and landscape photography.

 

Prices and technical specs are not available as of now, according to Voigtlaender they will hit the stores in spring 2016.

 

What do you think - interesting lenses for you?

Which one would you prefer?

 

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Didn't the press release say that they redesigned the 12mm as well? And bringing out a new version of the 12mm in M Mount too?

Only the 15mm is the exact same as the already redesigned lens.

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I enjoy the minimum focal distances that the Voigtlander Close Focusing adapter provides existing M lenses.  Hopefully,  Voigtlander gives these FE lenses much shorter MFDs than their M counterparts.  Otherwise, I will probably stick with my Ms and the Close focusing adapter 

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I wonder.

Voigtlander has now come up with tree lenses that looks good. I am deffenitly gonna get the 10 and 15 mm. But i was

hoping the Voigtlander also would have made e-mount out of the 21 mm f.4,0 Color Skopar, the 28 mm f.2,0 Ultron (or maybe a brand new Pancake Color Skopar 28mm ), and the 40 mm f.1,4 Nokton

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As an ultrawide obsessed gearhead [4 decades],

I've come to realize that 15 to 17mm is about the

limit. Essentially, the 3D Real World is not really

agreeable to being projected onto a flat plane.

 

I'm not concerned with CA, corner softness, mild

visible distortion, etc etc. Assuming a "perfect"

lens, the limit is still 15 to 17mm.

 

Wider than 15-17, a projection problem thaz only

moderately evident at 15-17 gets to be ridiculous.

It's not related to lens quality or sensor technology.

 

Rectilinear flat projection is a falsified record and

similar to a Mercator map, where Greenland gets

to looking bigger than all of Africa, the ultrawide

problem results in a compact miniaturized world in

the center of the frame surrounded by expansive

stretched out imagery of closer objects. Lenses of

the ultra-ultrawide class exaggerate this, failing to

transition gradually from the miniaturized to the

expansive, yielding a picture-in-a-picture effect.

 

"Fisheye Distortion" is a far less distorted view

of the 3D world [most of the world that is NOT a

brick wall parallel to the sensor] than the false

projection of rectilinear lenses with FOVs greater

than twice the lens-to-subject distance [+/-].

 

Soooooo ..... of the Voigtlander lenses, I'd go for

the 15, if I didn't already have a perfectly good 17.

At 10mm, I find fisheye imaging vastly preferable.

 

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I have and love the 15/4.5iii with Hawk close focus adapter. The adapter has an adjustable infinity stop which allows me to set it at f/8 (or whatever), and shoot without regard to focus -- handy while backpacking. Excellent results while hiking Iceland glaciers, etc!

 

 

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I have almost bought the VM 12mm numerous times and just ordered the VM 15mm ii for use with the VM/E Close Focus adaptor on my a6000.

If I feel I need more than I get out of the 15mm then I will consider the E-Mounts depending upon price and whether or not I'd give up flexibility by running the E-Mount instead of M-Mount version on the Close Focus Adaptor.

According to the Voigtlander documentation the VM 15mm with the VM/E Close Focus adaptor has a focusing range of inf-10.8cm (50cm w/out) and the VM 12mm has a range inf-10cm (50cm w/out.) I am really curious about how the 10mm will spec out.

My interest in these lenses is for shooting art installations and landscapes.


 

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I'd like to see how much smaller these are compared to the Sony 10-18mm f/4. Since that is very usable from 12-16mm, AF, stabilization, and faster f/4 that seems to be a better choice over the 12 and 15. That leaves the 10mm being the one that brings something new to the table, though I have have NO idea what subject I would shoot that wide.

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I wait eagerly for the 10 mm F 5.6 Hyper Wide Heliar. The viewing angle is 130° - a whole new challenge for me!

 

Anyone who does not know what to shoot with: Take a city trip to Rotterdam, Frankfurt/Main or of course New York.

 

A lens with this extreme angle of view is no competition for a fisheye. It is the supplement of it!

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So just how good are the primes from Voigtlaender in general?

 

Techart AF adapter and M mount Voigtlaender is noticeablely less than equivalent Zeiss or Zony.

 

Take a hit once for $349 adapter and the rest is the cost of the lens by themselves.

 

What do you think?

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So just how good are the primes from Voigtlaender in general?

 

Techart AF adapter and M mount Voigtlaender is noticeablely less than equivalent Zeiss or Zony.

 

Take a hit once for $349 adapter and the rest is the cost of the lens by themselves.

 

What do you think?

 

I think the CV 15/4.5 iii is wonderful. Today, I would just wait for the Sony version unless you want the M mount flexibility of the 15. If you are looking at the 12, you need to wait as it has not been redesigned for digital sensors like the 15 iii has been.

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Darn, I just bought the redesigned 15mm in M mount yesterday.  Ugh..  Oh well, in the end, the lenses are likely the exact same size as my M mount with adapter..  And I get to enjoy it between now and spring :)

 

 

I got a used 15mm mark 3 from Cameraquest a month or so ago, $599 plus $89 for the metabones adapter. I figure the native E mount version will be higher cost than the current M mount. LR has a lens profile for this lens, a nice benefit.  No regrets here.

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I asked the shop were I use to buy all my stuff if I could test them and they agreed, looking out for them. 

Asked also for the new Laowa 12mm f2.8, would be great for astrophotography but larger as expected with it's f2.8

http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/venus-to-launch-the-fastest-distortion-free-ff-lens-of-the-world-for-both-a-and-e-mount/

So waiting, we will see...

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