Voigtlander 25mm Snapshot-Skopar f/4

I use this gorgeous little lens on my Leica M2. It's well built, lightweight and very useful. It's not coupled to the rangefinder, but having click stops at 1, 1.5 and 3 meters as well as the well made dof-scale makes focussing easy. The viewfinder is extremely crisp. Picture quality is fine. There is only slight vignetting at f/4, but it seems gone by stopping down to f/5.6. You have to use a little adapter ring when using thge lens on an M-Leica, and mounting the lens is not too easy due to the narrow grip. All in all I'm very pleased, as the original Leica 24 mm lens costs much, much more than the Voigtländer/Cosina 25 mm, but overall quality is up to Leica standards.

Build quality, picture quality, very low price.

Mounting the lens with adapter to an M-Leica

Other M-lenses (50, 90 mm), Sigma 1.8/24 mm on Canon EOS.

Not yet needed

a real snapshot lense and much more. the only thing i would like about this lense is 1 or 2 f/stops more. but theres a flah in that cases. in street photography that im working on now theres i feel that every thing moves (i dont mean blure objects etc.) i use it mostly with ilford hp5 rated on 800. the quality is superb at all f-stops. the close distance perfomance is superb too. the click stops on the focusing knob is one of the most usefull things for snapshot photography. its not rangefinder coupled but theres no need for it. just make a few exercises for better feel of distance and with its natural depth of field there will be no problems. it comes with the viewfinder for hot shoe conection. its very usefull. but the great thing about this lense (for me at least) is that in many cases im not looking at all in the viewfinder (niether the accessory nor the finder on the body which gives a field of 28mm lense). i wanted it mostly for that. after some studies i am able to control bothh the composition and the perspective without looking in the finders. its very importent in snapshot when u want to get very close to people (so close that u can almost touch them). using it on the waist level gives the best results in my opinion. the only better lense for snapshot is the leica 24mm (about $2000), but this one has click stops. u cannot imagine how useful it is for this kind of photography. theres no need for adapter with the r2 body, but one more adapter is very useful for fast changes of lenses.

great lense. superb optical quality. snapshot is a good name for it, but i would also call it - '''intuition'''

f4, but from the other hand its small size is very importent.

28mm from zeiss and nikon. have a few frames with leica 24mm

none

Having bought the 15mm, I thought I would try one of these. Big mistake! I've since bought 3 other Voigtlander lenses and an M6 to mount them on! It's a lovely lens. Handles well, looks great, and is very sharp.

Excellent optically, very, very cheap, small, light - in short, great!

Not rangefinder coupled, L39 screw.

Loads!

Excellent. I lost the lens cap, e-mailed Prisma Europe to ask where to get a replacement. They sent me one FOC - a small touch, but a nice one.

This was the first of my Voigtlander lenses, and the one that sold me on the Bessa system. I'd used 24mm lenses with various SLR's (Canon and Nikon), but was blown away by the difference between those retrofocus designs and the tiny Voigtlander lens. The Snapshot-Skopar euals the sharpness of the pricier Nikkor, but is far superior in contrast and freedom from distortion. The click-stop focus settings are very handy for from the hip street shooting. The only downside is the finder (while sharp and bright) is a little vague in its edge coverage, depending on how your eye is centered behind it.

Absense of flare and barrel distortion. Tiny, light-weight. Click-stop focus settings more useful than I'd imagined.

The finder coverage is a bit 'hit and miss' along the edges

Canon 24mm f/2.8 FD Nikkor 24mm f/2

None so far

For the money you can't touch this lens. From my experience and from what I've read as good as any but the very latest Leica lenses made in the last few years. After I got used to the lens not rangefinder coupled I find I can shoot faster than ever. The only problem is the viewfinder is very low standard. Plastic and flimsey. I had to put a piece of tape about 10-15 % of the way down from the top because I found myself cutting off the tops of the subjects I was shooting.

Very sharp even to the edges,good contrast and color saturation.Very light and small.Well made.

Slow but if it was faster it would be more expensive and be much larger.

Summicron 50, Tele-Elmar 90,Assorted Russian lenses. Nikkor lenses.

Not needed.