Another fantastic video! I saw the silver "flower" artwork from 9:18 and 9:24 at a major street (can't remember the name...) 5 blocks away from Shibuya Station when I visited Japan in 2023. I was wondering what it meant and who made it. Nice to learn yet even more from your videos :D
Your welcome most how should I say weird looking sculpture are probably made by Okamoto Taro. His style is really unique and hard to miss since you can't comprehend at first sight...what is this guy thinking....
I liked your rationale, Ryo. The hardest thing is to resist buying the many great value lenses and only invest in a handful of high quality lenses, but high quality is where you want to end up. Good luck. I think you have a good future in this, you are natually charasmatic on screen.
Thank you so much for encouraging me on my journey Voigtlander/Cosina creates one of the greatest manual focus lenses for Mirrorless/film era. Although everyone has a limited budget it's better to get one great lense than a few okay/soso lense and cherish it till life :)
Great review. I want to try my hands on a manual lens and I love street photography too I wanted to know if you think I should rent the 27 mm 2.8 first before committing to the voigtlander 27mm
Thanks for commenting ☺️ I would highly recommend renting if you have the opportunity...since for alot of people the Fujifilms 27mm 2.8 is a great lense for photography. I never used the 27mm 2.8 but I hear the gen 2 version is really refined thus it was less available in Tokyo since ppl just went after it. One thing to note that lense in particular is going to be used mostly with autofocus in mind and as I said in the video pancake lense tend to sacrifice the width of focus ring so it might be hard to do it on the Fujifilms version Either one will not disappoint for sure
It's a great lens. Just feels wrong manually focusing on my Fuji camera. I had it for a while, but kept reaching for the 27mm fuji with auto focus instead.
This really depends since the 27mm F2.8 I never used it but seems to feel like a point and shoot and due to its compact size the Voigtlander might be hard to focus but in a way it might feel better with a combination of the XPro series rangefinder like camera. . Size wise it's close to a Leica lense which I do not have the budget to buy 😂
I actually have to get back home to check on the distance since I rarely use distance on LCD screen...plz wait a moment.....bc I don't want to give false info (my pixel phone almost corrected to Fatso info 😂)
I also owned this lens, unfortunately, I decided not to keep it, it had two issues I didn't like, #1 the focusing tab was too small and the focusing movement extremely soft with no resistance to the touch, #2 shotting at F2.0, would produce elliptical bokeh lights at night.
Thanks yeah like any vintage type of lense it's really depends on that person and it's one of those things where you have to try it out and understand if it matches that person taste. The outer focus is really unique that might appeal for a specific type of person especially at night photography. I think the focus they made it with less resistance with appealed to alot of street users who would prefer really fast paced environment moving from close up to infinity. I kinda wish they added a little bit more since I shoot slowly 😂
hi, i just happened to stumble upon your channel. i have an X-T20 and in my opinion, it struggles a bit with indoor/low-light AF so i was thinking of changing to manual focus. would using this lens improve my focus hit-rate?
Thanks for finding my video that's a hard question since the XT-20 LCD screen isn't that super high resolution compared to the recent XT-50/XT-5/XH2s which have a clearer image when you double click the rear dial for close up focusing (punching in) I basically use that function when I focus and get a high rate however long time ago I borrowed an XT-20 and tried to do it but the image looked too grainy in my eyes unfortunately and in pitch black environment I am skeptical about the hit rate....
@@RM.TokyoPhotographer thank you for the detailed explanation! I also feel the same as u described and it can be incredibly frustrating. I think I will hold off on my purchase for now
Another fantastic video!
I saw the silver "flower" artwork from 9:18 and 9:24 at a major street (can't remember the name...) 5 blocks away from Shibuya Station when I visited Japan in 2023. I was wondering what it meant and who made it. Nice to learn yet even more from your videos :D
Your welcome most how should I say weird looking sculpture are probably made by Okamoto Taro. His style is really unique and hard to miss since you can't comprehend at first sight...what is this guy thinking....
I liked your rationale, Ryo. The hardest thing is to resist buying the many great value lenses and only invest in a handful of high quality lenses, but high quality is where you want to end up. Good luck. I think you have a good future in this, you are natually charasmatic on screen.
Thank you so much for encouraging me on my journey Voigtlander/Cosina creates one of the greatest manual focus lenses for Mirrorless/film era.
Although everyone has a limited budget it's better to get one great lense than a few okay/soso lense and cherish it till life :)
Also, the Swedish company ‘Squarehood’ has recently started producing a metal lens hood for the Ultron.
Oh sweet thanks for letting me know :) I looked into it and I like the vintage square format
Great review. I want to try my hands on a manual lens and I love street photography too I wanted to know if you think I should rent the 27 mm 2.8 first before committing to the voigtlander 27mm
Thanks for commenting ☺️ I would highly recommend renting if you have the opportunity...since for alot of people the Fujifilms 27mm 2.8 is a great lense for photography. I never used the 27mm 2.8 but I hear the gen 2 version is really refined thus it was less available in Tokyo since ppl just went after it. One thing to note that lense in particular is going to be used mostly with autofocus in mind and as I said in the video pancake lense tend to sacrifice the width of focus ring so it might be hard to do it on the Fujifilms version
Either one will not disappoint for sure
It's a great lens. Just feels wrong manually focusing on my Fuji camera. I had it for a while, but kept reaching for the 27mm fuji with auto focus instead.
This really depends since the 27mm F2.8 I never used it but seems to feel like a point and shoot and due to its compact size the Voigtlander might be hard to focus but in a way it might feel better with a combination of the XPro series rangefinder like camera. .
Size wise it's close to a Leica lense which I do not have the budget to buy 😂
Hey thank for the video ! It's great. Quick question, with this lens on, is the distance scale on the camera working?
I actually have to get back home to check on the distance since I rarely use distance on LCD screen...plz wait a moment.....bc I don't want to give false info (my pixel phone almost corrected to Fatso info 😂)
Came home yes the distance scale works flawlessly the CPU contact on Voigtlander lenses relay the info to Fujifilm system
XF35 F2 has a lens thread of 43mm as well.
I realized it's 43mm 😂
I also owned this lens, unfortunately, I decided not to keep it, it had two issues I didn't like, #1 the focusing tab was too small and the focusing movement extremely soft with no resistance to the touch, #2 shotting at F2.0, would produce elliptical bokeh lights at night.
Thanks yeah like any vintage type of lense it's really depends on that person and it's one of those things where you have to try it out and understand if it matches that person taste. The outer focus is really unique that might appeal for a specific type of person especially at night photography. I think the focus they made it with less resistance with appealed to alot of street users who would prefer really fast paced environment moving from close up to infinity. I kinda wish they added a little bit more since I shoot slowly 😂
hi, i just happened to stumble upon your channel. i have an X-T20 and in my opinion, it struggles a bit with indoor/low-light AF so i was thinking of changing to manual focus. would using this lens improve my focus hit-rate?
Thanks for finding my video that's a hard question since the XT-20 LCD screen isn't that super high resolution compared to the recent XT-50/XT-5/XH2s which have a clearer image when you double click the rear dial for close up focusing (punching in)
I basically use that function when I focus and get a high rate however long time ago
I borrowed an XT-20 and tried to do it but the image looked too grainy in my eyes unfortunately and in pitch black environment I am skeptical about the hit rate....
@@RM.TokyoPhotographer thank you for the detailed explanation! I also feel the same as u described and it can be incredibly frustrating. I think I will hold off on my purchase for now