I thought it would be fun to have a Voigtlander thread for F and Z users. With the Nikon Zf being a great platform for the native Z Voigtlanders, we should have people shooting those lenses quite a bit. The Nikon manual focus thread is very active, but no room for CV lenses there!
Please denote which camera and lens you used for the shots in your posts. Any Voigtlander lens of any mount is fine as long as it was shot on a Nikon. Any Nikon body, film or digital, is fine.
First one is Z8 with 35mm f2 @ f7.1 from the chisos basin in Big Bend, TX.
Second one is Z8 with 35mm f2 @ 2.5 playing around during morning coffee in Terlingua, TX
Next few are with the voigt 50mm f1 and are all wide open except the last one, which is f2. I was shooting a 100 mile trail race a few weekends ago and put it in the bag with the ZF set to monochrome mode. Didn't pull it out much and wish I had more, but here are a few from a river crossing and an aid station.
Both of these lenses are very new to me and I haven't done anything that I really love yet, but have mostly just been fooling around with them. I don't really get to use manual lenses much for jobs because I'm usually shooting moving subjects. I love the 35mm for it's size on the ZF. I'd hoped it would do better for astro, but in some test shots it showed more coma than the nikon 35mm 1.8s. The 50mm f1 I feel conflicted about because I bought it used on a whim, but it feels like a lot of money to have tied up in a manual focus lens. It's also decently big. Think about the size of an old ais 85mm 1.4 (a little bigger but a little lighter). That said, it has a really unique look to it that is nice in color, but I think really shines in B&W. It's sharp enough wide open, but retains good contrast compared to other fast 50mm lenses. More vignetting than image wide open, but I kinda like that look.
nhmorgan wrote:
I love the 35mm for it's size on the ZF. I'd hoped it would do better for astro, but in some test shots it showed more coma than the nikon 35mm 1.8s.
