What about the Voigtlander 40mm F1.4? - A Modern Classic!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- I have considered buying this lens for at least ten years. Now when I have used it for six months Im wondering why I waited so long. Spoiler: I really like it.
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Ohhh finally, A mattias burling video. I missed your content soooooo much!!!!!
It’s amazing how these lenses are so good, yet so cheap!
Was thinking about you yesterday. Hope everything is going well with the family.
I had this lens for a couple of years with my M9 and I struggled a bit with it, likely due to the lack of accurate frame lines and the fact that at 40mm I felt I wanted to get closer than the MFD would allow, so I sold it and got the Zeiss 50 Planar instead. If I get a Pixii it's likely I will pick it back up again since the 58/60mm equivalent focal length is closer to the more portrait aspect I prefer.
I run this lens on my Sony with a helicoid adapter (really helps with portraits and macro). It's perfectly sharp in the middle at f2. Love, love, love this lens.
Great stuff. I own the 35mm f1.4 and love it! Amazing little lenses.
Mattias, I love the conciseness of your gear reviews. I own this lens, for the 2nd time. The first time it came with my Minolta CLE and I sold it as a combo. No I have it again and use it exclusively on my Leica M240 and my Fujifilm X-Pro3 along with the Color Skopar 21mm. I’ve come to really like how this lens renders both colour and black and white. You can’t go wrong with it.
Now you have me very interested in the PIXII. Who knows what they future will bring.
This has been my favorite lens ever since I accidentally bought a camera that was bundled with it. At first I thought the Ultron 35 f/2 is going to be my fav but little did I know Nokton blows me away with the characters!
I love the 40mm focal length and how the pixii is dealing with community. Your pictures are always a pleasure to watch. A question, does this camera have a crop factor? Is the 40mm really a 40 or cropped to 60?
60mm, the Pixii is APSC
This lens is very competent and modern at F2 but has a boost mode to go to 1.4 with a little vintage glow.
Bokeh is more of the classic slightly busy Planar style which I actually like. Plenty of contrast too.
There are two versions: multi-coated (MC) and a more vintage styled single-coated (SC). Choose the later if you are a B+W shooter who like a little halo glow to your photos, otherwise get the MC for color work.
I have the 35mm version of this (Single Coated) and love it. Superb on my m8
Welcome back!!! Please upload more regularly. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Top notch as usual! Question: why you use a 40mm frame guide if the size sensor is apsc? Shouldn’t be a 60mm equivalent?
All cameras throughout history have worked the same way. Without “equivalent”. Like any other camera you use the frame guide for the lens you have mounted on the camera 👍
I got the SC version of this lens along with my Leica M8 and b/w pictures look awesome.
As usual, beautifully terse, full of information, and gorgeous images. Thanks!
I brought this lens 4 weeks back and it has become my favourite focal length! Voigtlander are the best value for money.
The Mattias withdrawal has been much too long…😅. Happy to you & family are doing well. I love this 40mm focal length on my Typ 262, CL(film) & Epson RD1. Interestingly, the CL has a 40mm frame line ☺️. Regardless, it is a wonderful compact lens that produces beautiful images-tho, not as beautiful as your images 😖. ✌🏼& 📸
Thx for your video. Little mistake, the R-D1 dont have an 40mm frameline. It is 28/35/50 :)
Correct, I was thinking about the Bessa.
I was about to comment this. I got an RD1 and doubted myself :D
@@gearreallydoesntmatter Otherwise I would already have the 40mm a long time ago :)
I was happy with this lens but I'm in love with the f1.2 version. That 40mm almost never leaves my A7iii.
Absolutely beautiful shots. I have a 40mm f1.2 on my M (probably too big for a Pixi) and I think it is a magical focal length and an endlessly surprising lens with magical subject separation.
Love the fact you show beautiful images with your camera gear than go into the specs 🤓
I own the very same lens for a couple of years now and really dig it. Once, in a cafe, I dropped the camera on the floor. Fortunately I had the vented hood installed. It's a cheap hood that came w. my cheap Pergear 25mm aps-c lens. Since it is made out of aluminum the hood was severely bent but the lens was perfectly OK and untouched. You can ebay such a lens hood for under 10 Euros. I prefer aluminum or even plastic since rather than stiff metal, these materials do cushion the lens and camera during the impact. And plastic is light which I like.
@Mattias Burling are you hacked?
@@TheoDahlemPickups no, it was a spam account.
I had that lens. It's a GREAT lens! Best Regards and Best Wishes!
Lovely to see a picture of GP in this one. ❤️
Absolutely love this lens as well. I'm more and more convinced that a 40mm might be the perfect focal length for me if I can only choose one lens.
38-43mm is definitely a great all round range for me. Either that or a wider 28mm.
@@gearreallydoesntmatter 💯
40mm is very close to a full frame sensor diagonal. When someone says 50mm is "normal" don't believe them 😜
I noticed that it's a very convenient focal length when I borrowed an SLR with 40mm several years ago.
Thanks Marttias just placed my pixii order and was debating on 35mm or 50mm. I think you just saved me some money I’ll try out the 40mm
I love this lens on my Leica M3! Great video!
Very timely. Mine is coming today.
Tak, Mattias! Good to hear you again. Looks like Krut has competition for "boss model" at your house. Congratulations!
My wife just gifted me a Pixii for my birthday. Is this the 40mm lens to get if I wanted to start off my journey? The only other Leica-M mount lens I have is the 90 mm f/2.8.
You can buy Haoge LH-ZV02 squared metallic lens hood that fits not only this lens but also zeiss planar 2/50mm and 35mm nokton. I think I'm gonna get this lens finally too. I even got the lens hood for it:D
Thank you for the review. Do you have the multi-coated or single-coated version of the lens? Any specific reasons why you chose one or the other. Thanks.
This lens has been living on my m5 for the last 2 weeks and I love it more than the 35mm
How would you compare this against the summicron-c 40mm that was made for the film Leica cl?
Another great video and great photos. I'm on the fence about the lens but have a question about the size and brightness of the pixii vs xpro3 viewfinder. Can you have any insight?
Same with my voigtlnader 35mm f1,4. Shrap, small, fast perfekt for my m type 240
I bought this two years ago when I acquired a M3. It was $100 off. I was thinking this would be a stop gap until I could afford a good 50mm but honestly I love what I am getting out of this lens and I don't see any reason to switch over to anything else. I wish the M3 had 40mm lines but honestly it is not a big deal, anything I want in my frame I just make sure lives within the 50 lines.
I love the 35mm (or equivalent) and i love the 50mm (or equivalent), but i can't manage something inbetween. Tried three modells on three systems and i'm always too close or too far, can't compose with layers, or with lines. It's always miss, never hit for me.
Thanks for your great reviews! There are MC and SC versions of this lens. What is yours?
I used to own this beautiful lens! It is amazing. I regret selling it. In part, I sold it because I didn’t have 40mm frame lines on my Leica M9.
Maaan, where have you been! Finally a review from you. Hope everything is going well.
This lens was a favorite of mine as well, up until i tripped and fell on it.
Cosina, the company that makes Voigtlanders lenses, also produced some of Zeiss' lenses. Voigtlander glass is a really good value.
Is this "Classic" or no classic?
The 40mm Nokton is a great little lens. On the outside it looks just like the 35mm Nokton. I had the 40mm and the 35mm V1 which I used with an M8. The 40mm was excellent but the 35mm was a dog. That's probably why Voigtlander released a 35mm V2 but didn't need to with the 40mm. Mine were multicoated (MC) and there's also a single coated version (SC) for each model.
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Brilliant and very helpful. Tack Mattias!
40mm glue it on !
Thanks for a great video, is it the single or multicoated variant?
Love these kind of reviews! Images are beautiful as always!
Thanks 🙏
Ok man first what you do with your pics they are work of art
So, it's ~60mm on the Pixii's APS-C sensor? I wish so much that Pentax would release a 1-inch or APS-C version of the MX-1 with an m-mount to keep the small form factor without needing adapters and massive lenses (relatively speaking). Or even if Nikon would release another S3 styled camera using updated Nikon 1 hardware with a new firmware that includes for enthusiast features. Same 1 inch sensor, same lenses with maybe a limited run 18.5mm 1.8 with matching styling (50mm equivalent). I love the Q's/MX-1 and I quite like the Nikon 1 J5 and V3 cameras, the small sensor size doesn't bother me at all (I have MFT, APS-C, and Full frame covered...I just enjoy carrying about my MX-1 or J5). Having another rangefinder styled tiny camera would be a lot of fun, and the system is there to recycle before properly burying it. People would complain about old specs I guess, sad day.
If you compare how much you get into the picture (angle in degrees) then this on APS is like 60mm on FF or 30mm on MFT.
But the focal length is still 40mm and the frame lines in the viewfinder should take that into account.
Stunning images! I got addicted to 40 mm lenses, way back ago, when I bought my first Minolta CLE and growing into Leica M4P. Adore the focal length.
Great review Mattias! Thank you for presenting this combo. One question I have is, for the rangefinder frame guide in the Pixi, for 40mm means full frame 40mm, right? So in reality you have a depth of field of 60mm, right?
It works just like any other rangefinder, cameras have never cared about “equivalency”.
Nice review. I use the f1.2 version and love it. I thought that one was small, and this is like 1/2 that
I've been using the SC (Single Coasting) version of this for years. It's excellent
Hi Mattias! I learned about the Pixii camera thanks to your reviews. After some months of thinking about it, I pounced this week and I will be receiving the camera in Argentina in May. I have leica r lenses, a 28 mm f2.8 and 50 mm f2 that I will use with a Leica R adapter-M. In a second phase I might get this 40 mm Voigtlander. Did you get the multicoated version or the single coated version? Love your videos! Always a pleasure to watch. Best regards from Argentina!
You may already know the answer to your question, but from what I read, single coating is more for B&W photography and the multicoating for color. I have the MC version and I really love it
@@MV-bn6ez Hi M V, thank you very much!! Yes, I learned later that the SC is intended for monochrome, so yes, I'll go with the MC version. But first, I need to get the Pixii which is still being built in France and then try the lenses I already have. Thanks again! best regards!
All your different images are really gorgeous mate, really lovely !! 👍👍
(By the by, hv u done a vid on the Pixcie (?) camera ? It looks really compact and very carry-able; even in a hoodie ?! )
I have done three videos about it. It definitely ok to carry in a winter jacket.
Got the 35mm version on A7, the bokeh monster.
Matthias do you use the MC or the SC version?
I wonder if you would still enjoy it so much on a FF sensor? I loved my Pentax FA 43mm on crop, not as much as the FF K-1… just curious
I enjoy the focal length on all formats.
I miss the dog - Godspeed.
That lens looks like a keeper.
I have the SC version of this lens, and I absolutely love it
My 40 1.4 literally lives on my RD-1, such a great everyday combination!
Do you guesstimate the frame lines for the 40mm?
Great video about a beautiful lens. Thanks ! And, on your pixii camera, the lens become a 60mm with the frameline of a 40mm ? I don't understand the how it is possible...
It works just like all other cameras throughout history :)
@@gearreallydoesntmatter I didn't know that the Pixii was FF.
It isn’t.
having never tried one, i thought 40 was a real weird focal length (too wide compared to the 50, weird compared to the 35) BUT i do want to try it out now, especially for more 'landscape-like' shots!
It’s a classic focal length found on many premium fixed lens film cameras.
it's actually super close to the human eye's "natural" focal length(keep in mind the human eye isn't at all equivalent to a camera sensor), so images shot with it have a very natural look
3:21 but it could be a long video of pictures take by the lens, but im greatfull for what we have. thanks.
Almost nobody would watch that, so not worth the effort imo.
so basically you dont like it
Dont like what?
long time no see matt
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Great review and tunes!
I had this lens for few months then sold it.. my TT artisan have similar image or may be a bit better (to my eye).. no point to spend more when I can get better with cheaper lens
I am not a lover of the Voightlander lenses for landscapes, there is this artificialness in the lens rendering of the natural features such as trees, leaves, etc that I see in the 21 and 35 mm lenses I have and I see that same type of rendering in this 40mm lens. On the other hand I feel that portraits tend to be a strong point of Voightlander lenses and I feel they give a natural rendering providing a beautiful shading to create a true likeness of form and texture. That’s my experience with my Leica 240.
Hi Matthias. I’m confused with this one. Isn’t the pixii apsc and thus makes the 40mm into 60mm, thus not really working with 40mm framelines?
The Pixii works just like all other cameras throughout history. You choose the guide for the lens you are using. Cameras don’t care about “equivalence”.
I too have been looking at this lens for about 10 years, but I've never had a full frame camera to make it worth it.
I think I just missed that completely. Several years ago I thought about buying a Bessa R. The one with the highest magnification viewfinder had 40mm frame lines and this lens would be a perfect match.
Is it just me and my declining eyes, but the lens doesn't seem to be very sharp?
Mostly it’s you trying to judge sharpness on RUclips, very bad idea :)
@@gearreallydoesntmatter True, you have a point! however, I have seen many pictures from other reviews (from you) that have far more sharpness. It was no cocky or negative thing intended. I enjoy your view and YT movies. So it was an honest question.
Have a great one from me.
You need to add some sharpening to your images , they all seem a little soft . Just my perspective . I love your reviews .
Lol, this is RUclips. Not a place to judge sharpness.