CV Super Wide Heliar f4.5 15mm on Ricoh GXR M

IAZA · Joined: 16 Apr 2010 Posts: 2587 Location: Indonesia

really nice series Andreas Smile

what a nice lens!
wait a minute.. I have this lens too Very Happy

Digitalriver · Joined: 14 Oct 2012 Posts: 33 Location: River Mersey

Wonderful, so nice , your pictures make me wanna buy Heliar 15mm for my GXR Very Happy

I use my A12 28mm as wideangle ,not as sharp but gives decent results too.

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

thank you Suat, and thank you for adding your thread with your samples!

Digitalriver I recommend this lens very much! Jesito is not happy with his but I think that he must have a faulty copy. If you review the samples taken with it on other cameras you can see that it performs very well on other cameras too and possibly best, only Leicas may match / surpass (?), on the Ricoh

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

forgot to show how this camera and lens combo looks like, here it is:

and though my better ones are to be seen in my original post and I had shown some of these in another thread some more samples of this camera and lens combo

from Vietnam:

hydrofoil ride by andreas, on Flickr
on the hydrofoil from Saigon to the beach town of Vung Tau

Vung Tau by andreas, on Flickr
at the beach in Vung Tau

Untitled by andreas, on Flickr
meat shop in China town of Saigon

and a photographer in his shop in Kathmandu, Nepal:

Kathmandu photographer by andreas, on Flickr

edited April 2016 to re-post the photos that had disappeared

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Untitled by andreas, on Flickr

at the bird market

Untitled by andreas, on Flickr

in Saigon:

Untitled by andreas, on Flickr

hiii by andreas, on Flickr

Untitled by andreas, on Flickr

in Bangkok, at the Chatuchak market:

Untitled by andreas, on Flickr

in Malaysia, Bukit Bintang monorail station in Kuala Lumpur:

Bukit Bintang monorail station by andreas, on Flickr

former railway headquarter, Taiping:

former railway headquarter by andreas, on Flickr

a nearby charcoal factory:

charcoal factory by andreas, on Flickr

in Japan, Tokyo:

not Shibuya by andreas, on Flickr

Untitled by andreas, on Flickr

Kamakura, the Daibutsu:

Daibutsu by andreas, on Flickr

and a camera shop:

photo shop by andreas, on Flickr

in China town of Yokohama:

school girls by andreas, on Flickr

and from Austria, near from where I grew up:

Margaritenwiese by andreas, on Flickr

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

in the meantime I did buy a used Sony A7 FF camera and I have tried my CV wide angles. The CV 4.5/15 has very marked issues, the 4/21 performs mostly alright, the 4/25 is a bit more problematic again.
Recently the CV 4.5/15 on the Ricoh GXR M again has become my favorite combo for wide angles use:

rice seedlings by andreas, on Flickr

lawang by andreas, on Flickr

Proud Vespa owner and son by andreas, on Flickr

Untitled by andreas, on Flickr

lady police dinner by andreas, on Flickr

tb_a · Expire: 2019-08-28

Following comes to my mind:
Statement by Sean Read of "ReadReviews":
"Added December 3, 2015: Today, more than four years after it was introduced, the Mount A12 still sets the benchmark among APS-C cameras for performance with RF lenses. In fact, its performance with many of these RF lenses is still better than any camera made to date except for the Leica M models themselves."
Nothing more to say.

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

Thomas I just did a fast comparison with my CV wide angles, the 4.5/15, 4/21 and 4/25 on Sony A7 in APS-C crop mode and on Ricoh GXR M
http://forum.mflenses.com/cv-wide-angle-lenses-compared-on-sony-a7-and-ricoh-gxr-m-t74673.html
it's a fast and dirty comparison meant for myself but I decided to share it anyways, it confirms my 'feeling' that the GXR M + Heliar 4.5/15 is my best wide angle set up.
I hope that one also can see what I had written earlier, on the A7 the 4.5/15 is problematic, the 4/21 quite good, the 4/25 a bit worse again

tomzcafe · Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 196

Fantastic series ... you really travel a lot.

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

the Ricoh still is doing fine!
Since abt. one year I am also using a Sony A7 for it's "FF" sensor, but if it is during day and for optimal enjoyment the Ricoh GXR M still often is my preferred choice

in Bali:

posing by andreas, on Flickr

di Bengkel Susan by andreas, on Flickr

and back in 'my country' Austria:

Modehaus - 'fashion house' by andreas, on Flickr

Graben by andreas, on Flickr

serkol · Joined: 26 Aug 2012 Posts: 926 Location: Belarus

Very nice pictures in topic, Andreas, very nice Exclamation

zanxion72 · Joined: 11 Dec 2012 Posts: 145 Location: Athens, Greece

Wonderful! It justifies my urge to get a Heliar!

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

Minolfan · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 3439 Location: Netherlands

Allways a joy to see your various pictures!
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sarrasani · Expire: 2020-05-14

first of all: clap hands for your images.
So well managed, composed, and very good choice (surely you made many of them)....really a pleasure to see.

I use sigma Dp-1 merrill, sigma dp-3 merrill, and sony A7 and a7r. These last ones with many MF lenses.
I used also 12 mm. Voigtlander (leica-m) and now I'm waiting for the 10 mm. Voigtlander with nex mount.
With 12.....excellent for b/w, not easy (for me, I'm not a PP wizard....) to manage colours because its strong magenta vignetting.
I used also a Samyang 14, less vignetting but with more distortion. 12 and now 10 Voigtlander (as I see on the web) are better
in resolution and optical quality than 15 Voigtlander....
My experience (my 2 cents): very funny and easy to use ALL (Leica-r, Contax-Zeiss, a loto of m42, exakta, olympus om and other ones) lenses on this camera, also with simple/cheap adapters. a pleasure to focus with magnifier, and very good electronic view-finder. I prefer colours from sigma/foveon.....but it's another question, and I repeat I am not a wizard with post production....
All the best,
sandro

dan_ · Expire: 2016-12-19

Very nice images, as always, kuuan. They really highlight the qualities of the 15mm Super Wide Heliar in a very expressive way.
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I have the last, third encarnation of this lens and at f/11 the sharpeness across the entire frame of the Sony A7RII is really good. This doesn't mean that the other f/stops aren't usable. The lens is sharp from wide-opened on all the frame but the extreme corners, which improve stopped down.
Used at f/11-f/16 the DOF is so extended that one doesn't need to focus the lens for the normal distances range. The best AF ever! Smile

The only draw-back is bit of CA at the edges - very easy to correct in Lightroom with the existing embedded profile.