Showcase Voigtlander 15mm f4.5 Super Wide Heliar

Got mine yesterday afternoon. It's been brutally hot lately so any meaningful outdor shots will have to wait. This was a quicky in my home office. Focus distance aobut 18" or so. Heavy vignette added in post, coverted & toned in CS 5.



This thing is absolutely tiny. It is longer than the SEL 16, but it's much smaller in diameter. I think we're going to get along just fine.

 

Ok, I've been meaning ot do this for some time now and keep getting distracted, so here's an image update from the last 6 months from my 5N/CV15 combo. These from Riverfront Park in downtown Spokane, WA. I ran these through CornerFix to get rid of the color shift/vignette.

 

And this set is from the local Veteran's Memorial in Columbia Park, Kennewick, WA. Again with the 5N/CV15. This was the first set I actually went out to shoot with this lens, the pics were run through CornerFix to remove color shift/vignette.

 

And these looking down the street where I live. 5N/CV15. I did not bother running CornerFix on these as the dark corners fit the scene.

 

Thank you.

 

Thank you and yeah, I'm one of the fortunate few that need to use CornerFix with the 15. And the 21. And the 28. Someone else here does also, I can't remember who- Luiz maybe? I have a hard time imagining why this is so. Seems like they would all react the same way, but they don't.

On another board we wondered if it was the difference between adapters, but that didn't seem to matter as both the inexpensive Chinese and the expensive Japanese and German adapters were affected as well.

I guess it's just something you live with. I understand that the Adobe Flat Field plug-in does the same thing as CornerFix, but right in Lightroom. It's an extra processing step, but not that onerous as it can be batched and I'm already doing ExifChange to add lens info anyway.

 

Doesn't make any difference on my 5N- LTM or adapted to M, I need Cornerfix for both color shift and vignette correction.

 

Absolutely awesome shots!

 

Time to update this thread with a photo dump. Most of these are cross posted from other threads, but it's nice to have them in one place for reference.

 

Thanks, and yeah I have a really good copy. It is a bummer that yours is decentered. Are you using the same adapter as on your Canon? If not, that might be the problem. Or, it you have a LTM lens it could be the LTM-M adapter that's causing the problem.

Otherwise you're probably looking at picking up another copy, assuming you like the lns otherwise.