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 p.46 #14 · Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar Review | |
itai195 wrote:
One thing worth mentioning as well in comparison to the Leica 35 APO – you can actually buy the CV lens quite easily. The Leica is still on a ~12 month (or longer) waiting list. Quite remarkable that you get >90% of the performance, 10% of the price, and ready availability and the tradeoff is a bit of bulk but not terribly objectionable.
I know I'll add this one to my kit someday, but pacing myself having recently gotten the 35 steel rim reissue.
To address the last point, I know exactly what you mean, in that finding, and immediately buying, a suddenly-available 2022 Steel Rim, earlier this month, reset my 2023 budget, and probably 2024, as well. (Leica Camera USA had a batch of them, now sold-out, of course.) After recently seeing some of the local asking prices, for DSLR lenses, I now fully realize just how much value my DSLR lenses have lost, even those had I/we bought pre-owned, myself, just a few short years ago. (We live near a large pro-oriented camera store, Houston Camera Exchange, a good source for pre-owned lenses, where we have routinely shopped their Used display cases.)
I might have yet still bought a Cosina/Voigtlander, perhaps an APO Lanthar, probably the 50, but, my wife has recently gotten into “mothing” in a big way, and I found a good macro flash kit (Nikon R1C1) at KEH. Even pre-owned, a complete R1C1 kit is not cheap, so, Cameraquest is going to have to wait a bit longer, to get my money. (The folks chasing moths, in the evenings, are every bit as serious as those who watch and photograph birds. Fortunately, the forensic/evidentiary/crime scene kit, that I assembled/accumulated from 2010 to 2018, for night work, means that I am already well-equipped for Much Ado About Mothing.)
If I were to start producing work for others, again, either by returning to a public servant job, “volunteer” work*, or perhaps private sector, such as insurance claims, and wanted to use an M camera for the “normal” angle shots, I would probably start by purchasing two 50mm APO Lanthar lenses. A simple mathematical business decision. (In actuality, I would probably rather keep vocation and avocation separate, and simply use my DSLR kit to produce images for others.)
*Moth images are, actually, dabbling in this volunteer work. My wife uses some of my DSLR macro/close-range images, in her citizen scientist role.
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