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Voigtlander Apo-Lanthar 4/180mm samples
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:54 pm    Post subject: Voigtlander Apo-Lanthar 4/180mm samples Reply with quote

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondd5/3963779025/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondd5/3964093515/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondd5/3964273512/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondd5/3718151683/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondd5/2514539543/sizes/o/

some pictures of this lens taken with Nikon D2 ....
I have found on flickr !
personally i don't like them !
too much confusion...to much soft....for me...
maybe a little noise ... a bit of dots ....
sure I'm awaiting any comments from you...


PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think he got a dud lens! The CA I'm seeing is way too much for an APO lens, especially in the corners. Even my 135mm f/3.5 Takumar is better in this regard, so the Apo-Lanthar must be defective.


PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spotmatic wrote:
I think he got a dud lens! The CA I'm seeing is way too much for an APO lens, especially in the corners. Even my 135mm f/3.5 Takumar is better in this regard, so the Apo-Lanthar must be defective.


my jupiter-21m at f:4 is better....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33530174@N05/4514423868/sizes/o/


PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

These are not good samples at all. Search here on this forum some of our members have it and made beautiful samples.


PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

for me...can be a little error in the manual focusing....


PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

metallaro1980 wrote:
for me...can be a little error in the manual focusing....


It's more than that... I see tons of CA and that's NOT normal behavior for the Apo-Lanthar.


PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spotmatic wrote:
metallaro1980 wrote:
for me...can be a little error in the manual focusing....


It's more than that... I see tons of CA and that's NOT normal behavior for the Apo-Lanthar.


I can imagine these samples made by an other lens. This lens is a top lens, no quality issue on it there is no lemon copy I believe it. Another idea perhaps lens was successfully cleaned with all coating together and wrongly re-assembled etc ..


PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

metallaro1980 wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondd5/3963779025/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondd5/3964093515/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondd5/3964273512/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondd5/3718151683/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondd5/2514539543/sizes/o/


Yellow bird house has camera shake, white boat has odd choice of focus, green pipe has too cold WB which creates blue/magenta OoF areas, same with Mazda sign, sax player colors look "dirty" or like too high ISO was chosen for the scene (or maybe that is sea haze in the scene)

Furthermore, when you read the photo tags you can also notice that photos were taken using a Tiffen UV haze or Tiffen Skylight filter. While filter usability can be debated until eternity fact is a Tiffen filter in front of the lens does not exactly decrease aberrations... au contraire.

Regarding those photos, as an owner of same camera (Nikon D3) and lens (actually, two copies of the lens) I don't see what I am used to seeing with this lens and camera body combination.

My Voigtländer 180/4 APO-Lanthar shots on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mureena/sets/72157605301652112/

In the Mflenses Gallery
http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/v/mfl_club_members/esoxlucius/mexico/_ND32772large.jpg.html

http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/v/mfl_club_members/esoxlucius/mexico/_ND33060.jpg.html

http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/v/mfl_club_members/esoxlucius/mexico/_ND32772cropped.jpg.html

http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/v/mfl_club_members/esoxlucius/mexico/_ND35414.jpg.html

http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/v/mfl_club_members/esoxlucius/mexico/_ND31692.jpg.html

http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/v/mfl_club_members/esoxlucius/mexico/_ND39142X.JPG.html

http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/v/mfl_club_members/esoxlucius/mexico/_ND39015X.JPG.html

http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/v/mfl_club_members/esoxlucius/mexico/_ND39284X.JPG.html