I tried to find the original Voigtlander e-mount image thread and found that it was archived. So here's the new thread to post images made with Voigtlander lenses on E-mount cameras.
I'll start off with some images I've recently taken with the Voigtlander 10mm while on a trip to Paris.
Lovely set, Eric! I had the VC 10mm but sold it. I just don't have the eye to properly use UWA. I bought back a CV 12 but haven't used it for a long time.
Here are a few shots with the CV15, in Denmark last year.
Steve Spencer wrote:
I will add some of my favorites. Voigtlander lenses on Sony E mount are my favorite combination.
It is of course a matter of taste but wouldn't the first image (the lady at the lighthouse) be improved by a somewhat warmer color tone?
My favorite here is the young man with hat in sunset - he seems happy with the situation and you taking an image!
Aug 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Jonas B wrote:
It is of course a matter of taste but wouldn't the first image (the lady at the lighthouse) be improved by a somewhat warmer color tone?
My favorite here is the young man with hat in sunset - he seems happy with the situation and you taking an image!
Thanks for the comments, Jonas. I think you may be right about the first one. It was heavily shaded and color sort of reflects that, but it might well look better with a warmer tone. The young man with the hat is my son and he had just been in his second cousin's wedding as the ring boy. He had a lot of fun on the beach that day and that is probably my favorite shot of him of the 1000s I have taken.
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With my new to me Voigtlander 110mm lens, an old metal trough previously used for livestock grazing public land filled with broken glass and rain water.
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21mm f/1.4 Nokton. From the tech perspective, what's remarkable about this image is Sony's IBIS performance. 1/5s and it's tripod-level sharp, and all 3 shots in the series came out like this.
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I currently own the CV12, 15, 21 f1.4 and 35 f1.2. The 21 is used the most. I use it a lot for sunstar at sunrise/sunset. I wish it were a little wider and lighter. A CV 18mm f2.8 would be nice.
Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland, destroyed by a cargo ship few years ago
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Douglas L wrote:
I currently own the CV12, 15, 21 f1.4 and 35 f1.2. The 21 is used the most. I use it a lot for sunstar at sunrise/sunset. I wish it were a little wider and lighter. A CV 18mm f2.8 would be nice.
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My 21/3.5 gets the most use, followed closely by the 40/1.2.
But my favorite is surely the 65/2 apo-lanthar.
It's the best lens I've ever used. It's big and a slightly odd focal length, so I don't use it as much, but even boring shots still have that wow factor in a full-sized file on a large monitor. In fact, I have to dial back or even turn off sharpening sometimes to avoid an overwhelming microcontrast. (Interestingly, people have noted the 50/2 apo-lanthar as being very nearly the equal of the 65, but I find that definitely not to be the case. It ties my Batis 135 for the second-sharpest tool in my box, so no image ever suffers even marginally from its use, but it's still not up to the 65.)
In fact, I have one observation indicating some perhaps objective evidence here. When I downsize an image in PS to post here, I usually downsize to 2000 pixels on the long end and use a jpeg quality of 12 (max), and that usually gives a file size up to about 2-2.3 Mb. When I did *exactly* the same with the image here, it yielded a file size of 3.7 Mb (which I understand is bigger than we're supposed to use here). Presumably that's due to the higher information content of the image, and a reflection of the information retained even after a dramatic downsizing.
