[Leica] Voigtländers 1.5 or Zeiss 2.0?

[Gerry Walden]

Whilst it is not one you mention here, I went for the Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f1.5 which I bought used from a UK dealer to use on my M9. I am very pleased indeed with it, it is producing very good images.

I have to take issue with you on the fact that the M9 is no good above 400iso. as I have been shooting some work at 1600iso and very occasionally at 2000iso and I have had no problem.

Gerry

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> On 16 Sep 2015, at 23:01, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
> The Zeiss was made in a completely different area of the Cosina factory in
> which espresso was served to the employees during breaks. The Voigtländer
> workers had to drink regular coffee out of a coffee pot.
> The Zeiss lens in silver looks like a serous piece of glass. I love those
> third f stops who could think of such a thing!? The Voigtländer looks like a
> very interesting funky piece of glass where you don't quite know  how to get
> to the focusing ring but that's ok you could trade it for something else at
> the next swap meet.
> 
> When I think Leica I think Summicron. And that's f2 and be there.
> To me shooting f2 on a Leica camera is a very satisfying and expected thing.
> 
> Both lenes look like junk in black.
> I find it much more important that my lenses look good than my jpegs.
> 
> The Zeiss ZM series is very much about not getting focus shift and is very
> proud of the fact that its not an aspherical lens. As if that was the
> reason. This is not a plus for me I'm very happy about living in the 21st
> century shooting aspherical glass.
> 
> With the Voigtländer costing the same as the ZM Zeiss  you're both getting a
> great deal on the Zeiss and getting a bad deal on the Voigtländer,
> All kinds of Voigtländer glass being sold new now at B&H for a half a grand.
> Most of the ZM Zeiss glass new at B&H selling for a full grand US money.
> And they say CARL ZEISS on them in big fat slightly Germanic type face.
> On the inner rim kind of like a cue card.
> 
> 
> On 9/16/15 5:23 PM, "Kyle Cassidy" <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> So I can get a voightlander 50 1.5 in m mount or the zeiss 50mm 2.0. Same
>> price. Which would you go with? I'm leaning toward the voightlander for the
>> extra stop because the m9 is useless above 400.....
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone plz excuse the typoss keyb0ard is reaLly small.
>> 
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