Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/10

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Subject: [Leica] Voigtlander 21m use.
From: jviiret at gmail.com (Justin Viiret)
Date: Thu Aug 10 20:42:53 2006
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Hi Bernardo,

I had the good fortune to borrow a CV 21mm from a good friend a  
couple of months ago, and put a few rolls of film through it. It's a  
great lens, you'll not be disappointed. As a LUG lurker, here's an  
image taken with it mounted on an M3, my first posted to the list:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jviiret/136920436/

I'm not much of a wide-angle expert, so I'm not sure I can offer much  
in the way of compositional tricks (other than watch your horizons  
unless you want converging verticals!), but as far as flare's  
concerned, I don't think you'll have a problem. Even using it in  
bright beach lighting, with the tiny included hood (not the big one  
that's sold separately), I couldn't get it to flare at all. The lens  
has a filter thread of 39mm, too, so all my existing filters worked  
with it, which was a nice feature.

You can probably use it without the VF once you get accustomed to its  
field of view -- since your M4-P has 28mm lines, you can probably use  
the whole frame and assume you're going to get at least a few degrees  
more on the outside of the frame. Just crop a bit too tight when  
you're composing. :)

jv

On 11/08/2006, at 12:45 AM, bernardo feio wrote:

> Voigtlander 21m use.
>
>   hi
>
>   After your advices I just bought a Voigtlander 21mm from an ebay  
> seller from Taiwan.
>
>   Any recommendations about it?s use? Composition, light, flare,?
>
>   One thing that I notice is that the view finder is really bright  
> and the lens really small! (the same size of a collapsed 50 mm elmar!)
>   One question: in the view finder composition lines there is, in  
> the top, a not continue line. What is the use of it?
>
>   Is there any trick to use the lens with out the view finder? I  
> don?t like is protruding out of the camera and with my M4P I can?t  
> use it because of the light meter.
>
>   B regards from Portugal
>
>
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