'round the yard with the Voigtlander 35mm F1.4

Got my Voigtlander lens on Saturday - what a cute little retro thing it is! ; Here's a quick shot of the lens on my NEX-5N...very retro-rangefinder looking:

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I haven't had the chance to get out to shoot with it extensively - just a few test snaps around the house and yard. ; But it looks quite nice - very usable wide open with nice, smooth bokeh in the OOF areas, and very sharp stopped down. ; It's a breeze to manually focus as it has a finger lever at the bottom for sliding the focus, and very short focus throw from close to infinity, about 1/2 turn. ; The aperture lever also has two finger grabs that stick out like wings for fast on-the-fly aperture adjustments. ; A few snaps around the yard:

Thought some of you might appreciate some of my neighbors' cars - I snapped this one as a nice $250,000 Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster was passing my front door:


Squirrel on a tree giving me a look - stopped down to F2.8 for this one:


My cat, with the 'not another photo' look...taken at F1.4 wide open:


Here are a few links to full size shots - all shot JPGs straight from camera just to keep it simple...click on the 'original' size under the photo for the full size shots. ; Also note that I keep my in-camera JPGs set to sharpness -1, as I prefer to add a touch of sharpening in post, so these are straight from camera and not sharpened yet.

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/3702150612/photos/2544000/voigt-35mm-f1-4-test-no-crop

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/3702150612/photos/2543999/voigt-35mm-f1-4-test-no-crop

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/3702150612/photos/2543998/voigt-35mm-f1-4-test-no-crop

I was too lazy to go pull all of my lenses out of my lens cabinet, but grabbed all the ones sitting in my bags for a 'kit' shot...my two cameras and the various lenses I use the most for each:


Just thought I'd share - I look forward to playing with this lens at Disney!