Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/11

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Subject: [Leica] Voigtlander 21m use.
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Fri Aug 11 15:56:02 2006
References: <20060810144520.48868.qmail@web52904.mail.yahoo.com> <16804FC4-68E1-489B-B4BE-E939580C727A@gmail.com>

Justin,
Welcome into the light.  With images like the one you directed us to, unlurk
much more often.  Very few of us really bite.  :)

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 8/10/06, Justin Viiret <jviiret@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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In reply to: Message from bernardofeio at yahoo.com.br (bernardo feio) ([Leica] Voigtlander 21m use.)
Message from jviiret at gmail.com (Justin Viiret) ([Leica] Voigtlander 21m use.)