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Hello,

 

Headed to Ireland in August for 9 days.  I need a landscape lens, the widest I currently own is a 35mm Loxia.  The plan to visit some amazing places where I believe a Wide Angle lens will be a must.  I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger on a Loxia 21mm.  However I would like to see the group here believes is my best option based on my current kit.  I am fine with Manual focus. 

 

Current Kit:

 

Sony A7R2 

Sony 85mm F1.8

Sony 55mm F1.8

Leica 50mm F2

Loxia 35MM F2

 

 

The other lenses I keep thinking about are, Batis 25mm, Voigtlander 15mm, Sony 16-35mm (although I kinda don't like zooms)

 

Thanks in advance!

 

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Loxia 21 is a good lens, it will fit well to your existing collection. Its very nice to use.

 

 

Unless you want AF, in which case the Batis 25 or 18mm are also wonderful lenses and a pleasure to use in all weather conditions.

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Hello,

 

Headed to Ireland in August for 9 days.  I need a landscape lens, the widest I currently own is a 35mm Loxia.  The plan to visit some amazing places where I believe a Wide Angle lens will be a must.  I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger on a Loxia 21mm.  However I would like to see the group here believes is my best option based on my current kit.  I am fine with Manual focus. 

 

Current Kit:

 

Sony A7R2 

Sony 85mm F1.8

Sony 55mm F1.8

Leica 50mm F2

Loxia 35MM F2

 

 

The other lenses I keep thinking about are, Batis 25mm, Voigtlander 15mm, Sony 16-35mm (although I kinda don't like zooms)

 

Thanks in advance!

 

You mentioned Japanese optics and German optics? I personally have a preference for German ones. Also, like you, primes over zooms. The is not a lot wrong with the Zeiss Sonnar 35mm f2.8 lens. It gets rave revues and I must say the focal lengths you mention are a bit severe for my taste

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it has to be waterproof!!!!

i have the 16-35 and the loxia 21.

as an inhabitant of the island i think 21 is wide enough.

the hyperfocal distance on the lens barrel is spot on.

the iq from the 21 imo is the best of the three and produces gorgeous images.

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Sounds like as much of a consensus as I'll ever get...

buying the Loxia 21mm.  Just about a month left before

I leave...super excited!

   

Way cool. You now have a perfect trio: 21-35-85. 

The picture the trio won't take doesn't really need

to be taken. And there's never any question as to 

which lens serves which scene. 

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Ok, so I am buying a lens today, one last question.  Stick with the Loxia or are the Voigtlanders worth considering?

 

I am about to click the buy button, but the Loxia is pricey and I'm just having second thoughts...

 

The Voigtlander is literally half the price of the Loxia at the moment...

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If the Loxia is really straining your budget, you'll 

do fine with the Voightlander. There's so much 

more to an image that corner detail. But, if the 

Loxia doesn't strain the budget, IOW any fiscal 

hesitation is really conservatism about anything 

that seems a luxury ... then break the habit and 

treat yourself.  

   

What do you actually get, optically, if you treat

yourself ? A closer to perfect image, if that ever 

matters to you. You're treating only YOURSELF. 

Any normal person viewing your photos will not 

have even the slightest bit more enjoyment, nor 

an "aesthetically more positive experience", for 

viewing a slightly less flawed image. Nobody 

perceives minor optical flaws in photos. People 

are sufficiently distracted by content that minor 

flaws go unnoticed. And, OTOH, if the content 

is NOT sufficiently distracting, then why does a 

boring picture deserve an expensive rendering ? 

   

Notice these words above: "perceive", "notice"

and "minor". Glaring flaws are not "minor", and 

things which we don't "notice" or "perceive" are 

not invisible if we are quite intentionally looking 

for them. 

   

The only lenses not optically flawed in some 

manner or other are fisheye lenses. Most of us 

do not much care for fisheye renditions of most 

of most subjects. IOW, most of us prefer flawed 

images anywho !   

  

Not all fisheye lenses are free from flaws ... but  

all non-fisheye lenses are seriously flawed. 

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