{"id":34680,"date":"2015-10-05T00:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T00:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/?p=34680"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:42:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T22:42:35","slug":"voigtlander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/voigtlander\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying out Voigtlander M mount glass on the Sony A7 series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I own a Leica M7 and M240 but rarely use them these days. Initially my lenses were all Leica “proper”, which = expensive = I had just two. Then I after getting a Voigtlander 25mm F0.95 for my GH2 which I adored, I saw that they made some pretty nice M mount glass which were all much faster than the Leica focal lengths I owned.<\/p>\n

Starting with the very small 35mm F1.4, followed by the sharper but bigger 35mm F1.2, the wide angle 15mm F4.5 then my favourite, the 50mm F1.5 and last but not least the amazing 21mm F1.8 “Ultron”<\/p>\n

These are all of course manual lenses as they are for Leica rangefinder cameras. They are also all pretty small lenses, something which is pretty desirable on the mirrorless A7 series.<\/p>\n

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My favourite native lenses for my Sony A7RII (and will be the same I am sure for the upcoming A7SII) are my two Zeiss Loxia lenses. The 35mm and 50mm F2. The reasons are simply, the optics are lovely, they have proper manual focus (no fly by wire nonsense) and they are TINY. They aren’t cheap though, and there are only two focal lengths. Zeiss have brought out the impossible to source Batis lenses with focal lengths of 24mm and 85mm. These are autofocus lenses though.<\/p>\n

Sony are increasing their line up of FE lenses, which are E mount lenses covering the full frame as opposed to the plain “E” ones which are APS-C only. I have the 55mm F1.8 which is lovely and sharp with terrific autofocus but rubbish manual focus. Soon I will add the 90mm macro to my collection. All their zooms, though, are slow. Nothing faster than F4 for now.<\/p>\n

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