Portland Head Light located in Portland Maine. Two extremely different perspectives provided by the Voigtlander 10mm f\5.6 on the A7S.
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Lenses for the Sony E-Mount Cameras – Part 2
https://orionscoldfire.com/index.php/2016/06/19/lenses-for-the-sony-e-mount-cameras-part-1/
https://orionscoldfire.com/index.php/2016/05/30/voigtlander-10mm-f5-6-review-part-1/
So, this post is also about the Minolta 200mm f\4 macro lens. Honestly it’s one of my favorite lenses. It is incredibly sharp and I love the colors and rendering. It’s excellent for macro, close-up, portrait, landscape and wildlife. What else could you ask? An interesting thing I find is because it’s a macro lens and also a 200mm I can get some respectable isolation even at f\8. Now I’m sure the folks very savvy about optics aren’t surprised by that but I was. Anyway it’s another bonus of this Minolta “golden oldie.”
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Lenses for the Sony E-Mount Cameras – Part 1
Voigtlander 10mm f\5.6 Review Part 3
I’ll be writing a series of posts on lenses that I use with the A7 cameras (and other Sony mirrorless cameras as they appear). In addition to e-mount lenses, there are a-mount lense that can be used with the Sony adapters (LA-EA3 and LA-EA4). And as everyone is aware almost any other lens that can be found has some kind of an adapter to put it on the A7 cameras.
The first lens I’ll look at is the Minolta 200mm f\4 Macro.
One of the things that the Sony a-mount (and also of course the e-mount) lacks is a native 200mm macro lens. When I was shooting a-mount cameras I found the out of production Minolta 200mm f\4 macro available on ebay for what I thought at the time was a ridiculous price of $1,500. Of course I bought it and it was one of the best lenses I’ve ever used on the Sony cameras. I use it for both typical macro shots and also to chase butterflies and dragonflies. The lens is a screw-drive type so back when I was using the A-850 dslr I could autofocus it but on the A7 cameras the LA-EA-3 provides only manual focus. The LA-EA-4 will autofocus but interposes a “translucent” mirror into the light path. Well life is full of compromises. I don’t think Sony will be releasing an LA-EA-* adapter that autofocuses screw-drive lenses without a translucent mirror (although I’d really love that option). But even with the restrictions on its use, I feel the 200 macro is one of the best lenses available on the Sony system. Of course there are probably Nikon and Canon equivalents (which in some cases could be used as autofocus lenses) and the Sigma 180mm for Canon could be used with a metabones adapter on an A7 (I think). But I intend to keep the Minolta. I find it excellent and I love the photos it produces. I’ve used it for macro, portraits, landscapes, short telephoto, wildlife and general interest. It never lets me down.
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Voigtlander 10mm f\5.6 Review Part 3
Voigtlander 10mm f\5.6 Review Part 1
Voigtlander 10mm f\5.6 Review Part 2
Lenses for the Sony E-mount Cameras – Part 1
On Friday June 10th 2016 I took the 10mm Voigtlander out on my Sony A7S. I tried it on both landscape and closer objects. I’ll have to say that this lens is completely acceptable for both. The central sharpness is excellent and the corners are good enough for almost any lens critic. Let me clarify. The corners on the Loxia 21mm are much better. But that is a much narrower angle of vision. The correct way to compare this is to lenses that are close to the 10mm here. I’m comparing it to the Sigma 12-24 zoom at 12mm or the Voigtlander 12mm for M mount. When compared to these lenses it is actually better in the corners. Of course a tougher test would be against the Canon 11-21 zoom. I hear that lens has excellent corners and f\2.8 aperture. I’ll leave that test to others. Suffice it to say I’m very pleased with the 10mm Voigtlander. This summer I’m going to use it to capture Milky Way landscape shots. I think that will be interesting.
So here are some more shots to examine.
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