The Heliar Classic is my favorite lens. I've had it for 15 years. You can find similarities, but the differences are immediately apparent.
There is a very big difference between the New HELIAR classic 50mm f1.5 which can be seen from the examples and the Heliar Classic Voigtlander 50/2 Collapsible from the 250th anniversary.
IMHO The new heliar gives the exaggerated plasticity of the image from the famous old Sonnar 1.5 50mm while maintaining the characteristic features of Meyer Optik Görlitz lenses.
I treat the new project Voigtlander HELIAR classic 50mm f1.5 as a marketing step towards Meyer Optik Görlitz lenses, because I do not see such a lens in the Voigtlander stable.
They want to carve out a piece of cake.
I have several Heliar's lens, and they all share similar characteristics. Whenever I bought a Heliar lens, I knew what to expect and I love it for that. It always gives nice photos regardless of the aperture and focal length. It will never spoil my blur with cat eyes or hexagons, and here we see distracting glare with bright edges with a slightly detached background and stopped from spinning, sleepily blurry like sonnar. The examples of the new Heliar do not meet my expectations. IMHO This is a completely different direction of the project.
This design has so many different features of different lenses that there is something for everyone and I think it will be the most controversial lens of its time. He can even beat the Sonnar 50mm 1.5 divided into those who love him and those who don't.
The Heliar Classic is my favorite lens. I've had it for 15 years. You can find similarities, but the differences are immediately apparent.
There is a very big difference between the New HELIAR classic 50mm f1.5 which can be seen from the examples and the Heliar Classic Voigtlander 50/2 Collapsible from the 250th anniversary.
IMHO The new heliar gives the exaggerated plasticity of the image from the famous old Sonnar 1.5 50mm while maintaining the characteristic features of Meyer Optik Görlitz lenses.
I treat the new project Voigtlander HELIAR classic 50mm f1.5 as a marketing step towards Meyer Optik Görlitz lenses, because I do not see such a lens in the Voigtlander stable.
They want to carve out a piece of cake.
I have several Heliar's lens, and they all share similar characteristics. Whenever I bought a Heliar lens, I knew what to expect and I love it for that. It always gives nice photos regardless of the aperture and focal length. It will never spoil my blur with cat eyes or hexagons, and here we see distracting glare with bright edges with a slightly detached background and stopped from spinning. The examples of the new Heliar do not meet my expectations. IMHO This is a completely different direction of the project.
This design has so many different features of different lenses that there is something for everyone and I think it will be the most controversial lens of its time. He can even beat the Sonnar 50mm 1.5 divided into those who love him and those who don't.
