Hi, Godfrey! On 8/3/2013 11:48 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Nice photos, both of them. That's about as brutal as I can get. "Etude" really does seem reminiscent of an open grand piano when I look at the geometry. Love the shot of the iPhone picture taker too.
Oh, the analogy with grand piano never occurred to me. But I also did like the geometry and the idea that this scene would nicely lend itself to b&w rendering.
Yes, the Heliar 15 is quite a nice lens. I had one once upon a time that I used on the Leica CL ... When I compared it with the Zeiss Hologon 16mm T* for the Contax G2, the Zeiss lens was obviously a better performer in many ways, but what a pain to use compared to the Voigtländer. AND five times the price. (I sold the Contax G2 kit shortly afterwards, never really got used to it; liked the CL and a couple of lenses much more. Still have a CL today, which I use occasionally.) I keep going back and forth on whether to acquire another Heliar 15. It's a bit wide for me, really; I think I'll do better with the Ultron 21mm f/1.8.
Well, it depends. If I understand correctly you shoot with Leica M9. If so, then on my Ricoh GXR-M the Heliar 15 mm will provide angle of view similar to that of Ultron 21 mm on M9.
Can you please elaborate on the specifics in which Hologon 16 would outperform Heliar 15? I am curious, you see. Of course I'm interested in the performance under the limitations (such as maximal aperture) of Heliar. Because, in such wide a lens what I think is more important is sharpness and here Heliar does just great. I did not yet have a chance to make a photograph where its OOF rendering qualities would be seen. I doubt such a shot would readily come my way :-).
I was thinking about a lens to put between 15 mm and 40 mm but I have two lensors - 18 mm and 33 mm (actual F.L.) that sit there just nicely. And also it seems that Ultron 21/1.8 is rather big and heavy due to its fast aperture...
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