My two APO 50/3.5 arrived today.
Type I Black and Type II Silver.
Lovely lenses but again quality control issues strike again... both copies have a strong front focus.
The Type II silver lens has a nice sizeable piece of lint inside what looks to be in the middle of the lenses possibly in near the aperture assembly.
I'm now thoroughly fed up with 3 poor samples of Voigtlander lenses in a row. My rangefinder is accurate. My Zeiss Planar, Summicron-m 50mm V, Nokton 75/1.5, Ultron 28mm ASPH II, Tele-Elmarit 90mm, Skopar 35mm, Skopar 21mm are all accurate.
It would seem that both lenses are not cam'd on the ring that moves the rangefinder focus. Unlike both my Zeiss and Summicron that are slightly cut to adapt the lens focal length to the rangefinder focal length.
The reason I looked if the ring has a cam is because infinity focus matches my camera's rangefinder, but at anything closer than infinity the rangefinder starts progressively front focusing. All my 50mm and longer lenses have an angled or a cam ring and track focus properly throughout the focus range.
Sep 06, 2024 at 07:53 AM
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My two APO 50/3.5 arrived today.
Type I Black and Type II Silver.
Lovely lenses but again quality control issues strike again... both copies have a strong front focus.
The Type II silver lens has a nice sizeable piece of lint inside what looks to be in the middle of the lenses possibly in near the aperture assembly.
I'm now thoroughly fed up with 3 poor samples of Voigtlander lenses in a row. My rangefinder is accurate. My Zeiss Planar, Summicron-m 50mm V, Nokton 75/1.5, Ultron 28mm ASPH II, Tele-Elmarit 90mm, Skopar 35mm, Skopar 21mm are all accurate.
