Voigtlander Wide Angle Color-Skopar Pan 35mm f/2.5-M (PII) Manual Focus M Mount Lens - for Bessa T, R2 and Leica M Mount Rangefinder Cameras - Black

Comments about Voigtlander Wide Angle Color-Skopar Pan 35mm f/2.5-M (PII) Manual Focus M Mount Lens - for Bessa T, R2 and Leica M Mount Rangefinder Cameras - Black:

Five star rating is because of value for money. This is a great lens and well made but of course it snot a Leica or a Zeiss. Neither build quality or performance matches a new lenses from either but unless you are a pro giving the lens a daily punishing and producing 40x30" gallery prints you will probably never notice the difference.

Comments about Voigtlander Wide Angle Color-Skopar Pan 35mm f/2.5-M (PII) Manual Focus M Mount Lens - for Bessa T, R2 and Leica M Mount Rangefinder Cameras - Black:

I've had 2 copies of this lens over the last few years and both were sharp, with a medium contrast similar to the version IV summicron. Both were also very well built with no looseness anywhere and both the focus tab and the aperture tabs were easy to access and use, they both fell-to-hand naturally and I have slightly large hands. This is a very capable lens and there are no negatives that I can find. I use it for B&W film and full-frame digital (it does vignette but that can be fixed in PP) and mainly for B&W in digital so I can't really comment on it's color accuracy. For the price, you will not be disappointed.

Comments about Voigtlander Wide Angle Color-Skopar Pan 35mm f/2.5-M (PII) Manual Focus M Mount Lens - for Bessa T, R2 and Leica M Mount Rangefinder Cameras - Black:

I decided to get this lens as a second lens for my Sony NEX 5N which equals a 'normal' focal length. One of the deciding factors was the size, which is tiny and just a tad smaller (thinner) than my Voigtlander Color-Skopar 21mm f/4P lens. I've read some good reviews on this lens, and talked to a few other photographers shooting with it, and they had nothing but great things to say about it. The second factor was that it is also very similar to my VM 21mm in build, feel and focus so switching between the two takes very little effort. Although the focus throw on this lens is shorter (which is a good thing). Finally, I decided to buy this over the Voigtlander 35mm f/1.4 because it's smaller, cheaper by a few hundred dollars and I've read over and over again how the f/1.4 lens is not really sharp until f/2.5 so what's the point? I couldn't be happier. As for my experience level, I have more than 10,000 photos published to my credit so I've used a few lenses in my time.

Comments about Voigtlander Wide Angle Color-Skopar Pan 35mm f/2.5-M (PII) Manual Focus M Mount Lens - for Bessa T, R2 and Leica M Mount Rangefinder Cameras - Black:

I bought 2 CV lenses last year, 21mm f4, and this 35mm f2.5 PII. After a year using it I think this lens did not have good contrast and not sharp at all (unlike the CV 21mm is very good)

The Velvia slides came out way too dull and sharpness is very disappointed
I perhaps got a bad copy(?)

I am going to try the Zeiss 35mm F2.8 next