Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/26

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Subject: [Leica] Voigtlander 12
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Apr 26 10:58:37 2007
References: <5f1be6b50704222116j7f6753cbpd7acb2e9416c9663@mail.gmail.com> <462F5E5A.2030603@mcclary.net> <p06230903c2556ea38f61@[10.0.1.4]>

That Signma looks like a great performer.
Thanks for showing,
Philippe



Op 25-apr-07, om 23:12 heeft Henning Wulff het volgende geschreven:

> At 8:57 AM -0500 4/25/07, Harrison McClary wrote:
>> Ok...I am thinking about buying this lens.  Do those of you who  
>> have it like it?  From what I have read it is a very nice little  
>> lens, and I admit the radical POV of a 12 intrigues me.  I have a  
>> 16 for my EOS so I am not too interested in the VC 15, if I am  
>> going to go wide, I want even wider than what I already have.
>>
>> Thanks for any input as to the quality/fun of this lens.  If you  
>> have some sample photos I'd love to see them also.
>>
>> --
>> Harrison McClary
>
> Hi Harrison,
>
> I've had the 12 since it came out, and I also use the 12-24 Sigma  
> on the 5D. Optically, the 12 is better except of course with  
> respect to vignetting, but they are both fully useable. I've used  
> the CV lens with a center filter at times (http://archiphoto.com/ 
> Various/RD1vignette/source/12.htm), but usually it gets used  
> without. I don't have any pictures posted with the CV, but I do  
> have a couple taken with the Sigma:
>
> http://archiphoto.com/Various/China/source/img_3145.htm
> http://archiphoto.com/Various/China/source/img_3550.htm
>
> Besides the usual architectural stuff I've also used the 12 CV for  
> shooting wildlife. Birds in particular. Who needs those 560's? :-)
>
> In 2000 I was in the Galapagos, shortly after I got the lens. One  
> local species, the red-footed booby perches mostly in bushes, and I  
> mean 'in'. If you shoot from the outside you sometimes only get  
> branches. So I took the camera with 12mm lens, set it on 18" or  
> less, stuck the whole thing into the bush and took 'environmental  
> portraits'. The birds might have been a bit put off by someone  
> poking their hand into their bush, but they didn't move. I'll have  
> to see if I can scan one of those shots. I don't remember how well  
> they turned out, though.
>
> -- 
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In reply to: Message from ausdlk at gmail.com (David Keenan) ([Leica] PAW (*) 2007 #17)
Message from lists at mcclary.net (Harrison McClary) ([Leica] Voigtlander 12)
Message from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] Voigtlander 12)