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Voigtländer Ultron 21/1.8 21mm f/1.8 announced |
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09-16-2012
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Voigtländer Ultron 21/1.8 21mm f/1.8 announced
A new Voigtländer lens, the Ultron 1,8/21 mm, was announced today: Photoscala (German website) |
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09-16-2012
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Holly s#@#!!
Great news, bit pricey at 1,149 euro but comparing to Leica prices still a bargain. Hoepfully the perfomance is good...
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09-17-2012
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The people who will get excited about this will be the RD-1 and M8 owners ... finally a fast wide that even with the crop factor of the two mentioned cameras offers new life to these digital antiques! 
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Great to see something potentially very popular come out of CV.
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09-17-2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith
The people who will get excited about this will be the RD-1 and M8 owners ... finally a fast wide that even with the crop factor of the two mentioned cameras offers new life to these digital antiques! |
It‘s too big to block the VF of RD1?
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09-17-2012
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Originally Posted by roundg
It‘s too big to block the VF of RD1?
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Checking the dimensions it doesn't seem that big ... certainly no bigger than my 35mm 1.2 and that's OK on the RD-1. It does intrude into the viewfinder a little but I haven't found it to be a problem.
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09-17-2012
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so I guess the new secret ZM will be 25/1.8
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09-17-2012
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are they coming out with any clinically sharp 50mm????? 1.5 is not produced anymore and is not dead sharp
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09-17-2012
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Stop it Keith... I'm suffering more R-D1 nostalgia...
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09-17-2012
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First new CV announcement that I'm seriously interested in, for a while. Great news!
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This is totally awesome for those of us who want a cheaper alternative to the Summilux. Can't wait to see some images.
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09-17-2012
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Stop it Keith... I'm suffering more R-D1 nostalgia...
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Yeah, trust Keith to get the R-D1 juices flowing again.  Cease and desist, pretty, pretty please?!
But a fast 21 would be nice on a regular M too. I use the 1.9 28mm Ultron on my M4-2 more or less 90% of the time, and could go wider.
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09-17-2012
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良かったね！
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Who said is was a bad time for the RF camera user.....
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09-17-2012
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WOW. That looks like a seriously awesome lens.
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09-17-2012
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Hmmm... did we crash the photoscala website?
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09-17-2012
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nice one from CV! its been quiet for a while.
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Oh, Oh, I'm tempted.....
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I hope this lens is an absolute pearler and proves that you don't have to be fleeced to the tune of five grand or so for a decent optic!
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You'd think with all the excellent lenses from Zeiss and Voigtlander, it would keep prices low on Leica's glass...guess not!
But seriously, this could be a nice lens. However, if it's as big as it looks then I'm not really interested. The 35/1.2 was far too large for an RF IMO; it takes away the small, discrete nature of the RF, which for me is its raison d'etre!
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09-17-2012
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Quote:
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are they coming out with any clinically sharp 50mm????? 1.5 is not produced anymore and is not dead sharp
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Try the heliar 3.5. |
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09-17-2012
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It may be smaller than the 35mm 1.2 but its since I hven't handled once I compared it against the Canon 50mm 1.4 ltm (which strikes me as a larger lens while handling it).
VC 21mm 1.8
Diameter 69.0 mm
78.4 mm (with hood)
Canon 50mm 1.4
Diameter of ~55mm (lens)
Diameter of ~62mm (hood)
Length of 70mm (with hood)
The VC is a beast of a lens. 
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Quote:
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<snip> digital antiques! </snip> |
That would be any camera released in the year previous to the current one
Cheers,
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Hmm... a super fast 21mm M mount - I always wonder about that sort of lens. That is, the DOF is almost non-existent as one goes wider so maybe Keith has a point. A 28mm equivalent for M8 users. A "32mm" for Fuji or Epson users. But as an M-Mount lens (for, say, the M9 or film M7) unless you're shooting your day away in low light, I wonder how often one would use the wide open aperture.
At a minimum distance of 1.5 ft (0.5m) I don't know how useful this lens would be to me. That said, I'm sure there are a lot of folks who will like/want this and the mere fact that CV continues to produce lenses that are affordable and interesting is a good thing in my book.
Cheers,
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I foresee a flood of 21/2.8 Biogons on the used market... probably mine included.
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