Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] First shots with a Voigtlander 15mm
From: "Mark Pope" <leica.user@ntlworld.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:25:34 +0100
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Graham,

nice shots and surprisingly sharp given the conditions that you describe.  I
had the 15mm but I got rid of it and bought the 21 Voigtlander instead.  I
didn't get on with the focal length.  Also, I found that it's practically
impossible to use filters such as red, orange etc with it without vignetting
the shot.  Having seen some recent 15mm shots by Neal Friedenthal and now
these, I am beginning to wonder whether I should have persevered (cue
Harrumph! from SWMBO).


Regards


Mark
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From: "geebeespaw" <geebeespaw@btopenworld.com>
To: "LUG" <Leica-Users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 7:26 AM
Subject: [Leica] First shots with a Voigtlander 15mm


> Having just bought a used 15mm* I was anxious to give it go.
> I took these shots in Fawsley church, Northamptonshire, it was gloomy
> (outside as well as in), the voigtlander wide open is f4.5, I was loaded
> with Agfa 200, I had only a monopod and the meter was telling me half
> a second. Not a recipe for success.
> I decided to shoot a few frames anyway and return some other time in
better
> light and with a tripod. I am amazed at the results and have up loaded
them
> temporarily for anyone who may be interested. The fourth shot shows the
> only difficulty with the 15mm, if you try to hold the lens in the normal
> manner a pink cast appears bottom left :-)
> The fifth shot is another church at Kings Sutton in Northamptonshire, it
is
> full frame and not corrected for perspective at all. I am amazed.
>
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/html/irc.html
>
> Graham
> http://geebeephoto.com
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> * Sonny Carter, Will Larsen and Bob Baron made me do it :-)
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