Apo Lanthar 90mm

[scsambrook]

I have a (Cosina) Voigtlander Apo Lanthar 90mm f3.5 Leica screw fitting lens which I've been playing with on a Lumix G1 which I bought on eBay at a silly cheap price. For the adapter to put it on M4/3 mount, I paid the utterly outrageous price of £3.89 including postage from Hong Kong.

This was taken yesterday evening, dull and raining, distance around 4ft/1.5 meters:



This one was at 3 ft/1 meter, which is as close as the lens focuses on its own:


This was taken indoors with the lens on a bellows: the centre circle in the flower the picture is about 20mm in diameter. It's a cactus of some sort which has lived outdoors in a seed tray for the last five years and never done a thing (except survive!) until this summer.


I think it does quite well as a macro lens on M4/3. It's actually quite handy on a short extension tube, much more so than on a bellows - although to be sure of getting the focus dead right you do need to use a tripod.

[Pontus]

This is such a great lens! I have this lens with a Voigtländer LTM to M adapter ring connected to a Hawk's helicoid adapter (acts as an extension tube if needed) M to E-mount. Very handy! I don't know if there is an helicoid adapter available for M4/3 though.

Did you use the on-board flash for these?

[56 DIN]

perfect pictures
you´re right, this lens is underrated. It is the first lens i bought from 3rd party for my NEX. I think its only disadvantage is the long thin barrel, making it difficult to balance on a small cam

[Tesselator]

Nice Images!

Great lens!

[wilco]

sharp images. Great lens!

[scsambrook]

Thanks for comments and observations - it is indeed a nice lens.

Pontus - I used three lights to take this shot, not flash. A ring-flash might be handy, though.