Modern vs Vintage! Walk in Ueno with the Voigtlander Heliar Classic 50mm 1.5 VM and Bessa RF Heliar

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[@NorbiWhitney]

Finally got around to watching this. Really great shots throughout the whole video! The lighting was so beautiful.
Nice to see the little differences between 2 shots of the same thing, at the same time, by the same person, with the “same” lens.

[@PhilKnall]

Thanks Norbi! Really appreciate it. Yeah, i was really intrigued by the "same" lens concept. I really like Voigtländer as a manufacturer, both the classic and modern incarnations.

[@chrillo108]

Thank you for the nice report. Best of all, you pronounce the name Voigtlaender correctly. Great! :)

[@PhilKnall]

Haha, i do try to keep all the names straight! Thank you!

[@vangstr]

Thanks for the vid. The lens design is the same. And that's the only similarity. They're major differences are film format, lens coatings. Feed your old bessa with some Ektar or Velvia and you will be amazed. Regular color film will look muted on that old lens without any coatings. In the end, I will still prefer the larger format over the 35mm film.

[@PhilKnall]

Thanks for the comment! You are correct. Some of my favorite photos on the bessa are on Ektar! However, i do enjoy the nostalgic look it produces on "normal" film, too.

[@Shingie]

What’s good brother!!

[@PhilKnall]

Much love man!

[@wilfredshum3703]

I like my newly purchased Voigtlander Heliar Classic for shooting portraits and its subject isolation, but not that much for street photography. Maybe my further examination of its performance in black and white photography can convince me otherwise.

[@PhilKnall]

I think portraits would definitely be where it shines! I do quite like it for street as well. But i was slightly disappointed that it's fairly large for a rangefinder lens.

[@randallstewart1224]

I look at these videos with a large dose of "so what". Voigtlander was perhaps Germany's supreme optics maker from the mid-1880s. It financially failed in i971, and all of its assets, including trade names, were acquired by Zeiss. While these companies were existent, these lens names had some meaning, in that "Planar", Tessar", "Skopar", and "Heliar", each described a particular type of lens design. Lenses so branded shared specific optical construction and performance. After the camera division of Zeiss failed, Cosina in Japan bought the legal rights to use the trademarks originated by Voigtlander. When such trade names are used by Cosina, they have no descriptive relationship to the prior Vogitlander products which used the same labels. If Coca Cola had purchased those trade names, we'd find "Heliar" pasted on bottles of sugar water in the supermarkets, and they would have about the same comparison value as here.

[@PhilKnall]

And people would probably still compare them. This is not a scientific publication. I'm just having fun here man. Thanks for watching!

[@zenden6564]

Would have appreciated your impressions of the two heliar lenses comparison. Ueno was beautiful to see again. A question if I may, does the new heliar 50mm meet your hopes for it?
Thanks.

[@PhilKnall]

To be perfectly honest, it still felt a little too "modern" for my taste. Also for an M mount rangefinder lens, it is slightly more bulky than i like. I prefer the single coated nokton lens i think!