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from b&h Summary: i think that its the only substitution to the leica lenses. its not top quality of the leica not in terms of the build quality and not optically. but it costs 1/4 of hte leica. the image quality you can achive with it is much closer to leica than any other 50mm lense i have used. it feels great while working with it which is very importent to me. photography with rangefinders for me is an intuition and the nokton is there, i feel free with it.
stopping down 1 f-stop delivers great image. at f4 the quality is superb. focusing is very smooth and rewording.
the lense hood is very usefull, and its not a real problem to use filters on it as one reviewer noticed (it mught be problematic if one changes filters for each frame... not me).
i use this lense on r2 body, others are snapshot skopar and lenthar 90mm.
i think that only the real experts who get used to leica top quality will notice in my exhabition that the images are not taken with the leicas.
i recomened you to read the reviews of erwin puts (there are other voigtlanders too). i think he's a graet expert and real leuca freak. Strengths: supperb optical quality. very good build quality. the best 50mm i have used (exept the sumicron which is not mine). Weaknesses: not leica (but i was able to build a system of rangefinder with voigtlander in price range of leicas one lense) Similar Products Used: zeiss plannar 50/1.7, nikons, pentaxes, sumicrom m (corrent). Customer Service: not yet
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