There is no free lunch of course but it depends on each lens and copy of it actually. However, it does vignette quite badly, regardless of of aperture. With the bessa r4mr4a cameras that have a builtin bright frame for 21mm, the necessity to use an external viewfinder is eliminated. Skopar, colorskopar tessar nearly all lenses made, regardless of design, since 1900 are anastigmats. A7ii and voigtlander 21mmf4 p type colorskopar in reply to lay9eggs jan 31, 2015 my cv 21 4. Here are a few samples i shot with the colorskopar. For this purpose, the cv lens is perfect very small and light, sharp and a joy to use. Colorskopar is an old trademark dug up from the 1950s for a totally different lens. The handling of blur or bokeh is also a very individual thing both in terms of lens design and shooter preference.
Deachromatizing a lens is a way to gain what is said to be a very pleasing soft focus effect in blackwhite. Pancake lenses that are small, light and visually succinct. Voigtlander lenses of this period, especially the heliar, are often touted for their plasticity that is, their ability to smoothly and pleasingly. Other fine lens designs of that time were the dynar and kollinear. If you want to enjoy fully sharp images you must stop the voigtlander down to the range of f8. With the bessa r4mr4a cameras that have a builtin bright frame for 25mm, the necessity to use an external viewfinder is eliminated.
From left to right we have the voigtlander 35mm f2. By limiting the maximum aperture to a practical size, the lenses realize both compactness and high performance. Discussion in adapted lens forum started by fraser, jan 20, 2020. Compact viewfinder camera with voightlander colar skopar 38mm2. The skopar is a tessar design but the later lanthar is a triplet again i think the latter is a cheaper lens. A photo of bowl of curry laksa taken with the voigtlander 35mm f2. We think about the voigtlander color skopar 20 mm f3. The bessa ii also received a revised lineup of coated lenses, including the 4element tessartype color skopar seen on this example, the fiveelement color heliar, and the almost mythic apo lanthar which can command five figure prices. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Enhanced high performance utilising aspherical lens surface. Later i added russian jupiter 50 f2 and 85 f2 and a prewar 1937 9cm leitz elmar 9cm.
As far as my research shows, the only option on the bessa ii was the lens in addition to the colorskopar, buyers could get a colorheliar or the fabled apolanthar, the latter of which drives the price today into the stratosphere think five figures in usd. Its not leica and its not zeiss, but its really good and really small. Optical design optimised for digital imaging sensors. Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. If your needs run wider, the voigtlander colorskopar 21mm f4. Voigtlander bessa r the cheap leica alternative photo. Heliar, the heliar was made over many years, and was usually a 5 element lens, the 75mm versions were of a 6 element design. Photobook the camera is sitting on is joel meyerowitz aftermath. Voigtlander lenses of this period, especially the heliar, are often touted for. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. The mlens design is totally connected to that so part of their genius is designing very fast lenses withing a size constraint and reaching an extroardinarily high optical standard as seen with the lux 50mm asph.
Voigtlander was a significant longestablished company within the optics and photographic. Below is a list of original voigtlander lens designs in all variants. Skopar, skoparex, skoparet, skopagon, colorskopar, colorskopar x. Standard lens on voigtlander bessamatic cameras of the 1950s. Get answers to your questions in our photography forums. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog. P has been said to stand for pancake, or more simply, pee. Now the time has come for a recordbreaker in this category. Vintage voigtlander vito iia 35mm folding rangefinder film camera, color skopar 50mm f3. Voigtlander specialist photography cameras filters lenses. Voigtlander 25mm f4 color skopar is a manual focus mf wideangle prime lens with 35mm ff max sensor coverage.
People must have realized that the colorskopar lens was good enough to not warrant the extra money. Are voigtlander lenses really inferior to leica lenses. It is perhaps this reason that finding vitomatics with the ultron lens is extremely difficult today. Voigtlander 25mm f4 color skopar pancake photography life. Theres some barrel distortion, but its not much worse than the 28mm ze and other wide angles i actually used the zeiss 28mm preset in. It does vignette a lot and isnt the most flare resistant lens, but depending on what you are looking for, it could well be your best choice. I think voigtlander at first put quality first and then later, in the face of competition, looked at ways of reducing cost which had a. At the maximum relative aperture the lens slightly exceeds the level of 20 lpmm and it reaches the decency level only near f7. Erwin puts book the leica lens compendium is very good. During the 20th century the skopar and color skopar lenses became the standard ones on. When mounted on a 35mm ff sensor camera, it will give you an ff equivalent focal range of 35mm. New listing vintage rare kodak pony ii and iv field case with original box.
Ive used this on my m10 but with digital some of the imperfections of design dont play well with modern sensor design. Overall the lens is about the size or smaller than most 50mm lenses for an slr camera. While advancements in the field over the past two centuries have done much to transform it from the former category to the latter, much of the lens design process remains encapsulated in the experience and knowledge of industry veterans. As you can see, lens in hand is actually quite small. From an early lens still being manufactured for use in lowcost cameras to designs made possible through such innovations as lens coating. Of course, a lot of this is due to the differences between what exactly wide open is for each lens. The process of designing lenses is both an art and a science. At a high level, the voigtlander 35mm color skopar has some very obvious flaws that keep it out of the conversation of other more notable mmount 35mm lenses e.
Daguerreotype camera, replica of voigtlanders first metal camera from 1841, tm32508 tekniska. The sharpness and colours are outstanding whenever i shoot velvia. Lets see how the lens fares on the edge of an apscdx sensor. I just bought this lens on a whim after looking for a lighter alternative to the 35 f1. When mounted on a 35mm ff sensor camera, it will give you an ff equivalent focal range of 25mm. Buy voigtlander colorskopar 21mm f4 p lens featuring leica mmount lens, aperture range.
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