I’ve always been a bit of a black sheep when it comes to my personal preferences. Hence my likeness is for a 40mm lens rather than a 35 or a 50. It gives me just enough wide perspective to show the composition, and at the same time, it allows me to be able to get up close to someone and yet, not let it feel like a portrait.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my M6 but I do wish I had a 40mm frame lines on it. Now I do have plenty of cameras but none of them really have a 40mm option, so when I saw the Voigtlander 40mm f/2 option for my Nikon F2, I knew this would be a favorite setup right after my Leica M6 combined with a 35mm lens.
To check the sharpness and the color of this lens I quickly loaded up a Provia 100F in the F2. In the picture below, we just finished summer and I was out on a beach one fine weekend quite excited to take some pictures. Here are the results from that outing.
I was blown away with the results. The lens is tack sharp and it has that character where it represents all the colors as they are supposed to be. Not at any point did I feel that I had to fiddle with the lens, everything is where it’s supposed to be. To me the composition was easy because of that 40mm length. It just felt an extension of myself. I mostly took pictures with aperture ranging from F5.6 to F11 and the results speak for themselves. I’d be interested to hear from anyone else who has shot one of these lenses, or perhaps finds 40mm to work for them so well too!
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Ralph Turner on 5 Frames with a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 in Nikon F Mount
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Argentix on 5 Frames with a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 in Nikon F Mount
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Shalini on 5 Frames with a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 in Nikon F Mount
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Markus Larjomaa on 5 Frames with a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 in Nikon F Mount
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Still haven’t replaced my 50s and 35 with the 40mm Ultron on my Nikons, but I think the day will come… :)
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Richard Arbib on 5 Frames with a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 in Nikon F Mount
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Gary Smith on 5 Frames with a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 in Nikon F Mount
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Thanks for sharing, Mrigank!
Steve Macfarlane on 5 Frames with a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 in Nikon F Mount
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(1) 40mm lenses work well on Leica M6 cameras, bc the 35mm framelines on the M6 are “tighter” than on, say, the M2 or M4 cameras; Leica shrank them slightly in order to accommodate 28mm framelines in the M6 finders. Thus, from about 10 ft. on, the 35mm framelines on the M6 will give you effectively a 40mm field of view. I’ve filed down the flanges on a couple of my favorite 40s (the M-Rokkor 40/2.0 and the Nokton 40mm/1.4) so those lenses will bring up the 35mm framelines on my M6 classic. (2) The viewfinder on the M3 most certainly can be used to frame with 40mm lenses. I often shoot my 40 lenses on an M3 this way and have little difficulty framing.
Jeffery Luhn on 5 Frames with a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 in Nikon F Mount
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Your shots make buying that lens tempting...if I didn't already have a couple 35mm.
David Hume on 5 Frames with a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 in Nikon F Mount
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I like these shots, and like that you've cropped them 5:4 - nice compositions! I use 40mm (equivalent) on my fuji crop cameras - I have a Voigtlander 27mm in X mount on my XP3.
I've never bothered with looking for a 40mm on my Nikons, and usually leave a 50 on them (but oddly I find the 50 equivalent 35mm a bit tight on a Fuji, which I know does not make sense)
I did think it was sensible that Nikon released a 40mm f2 with the Zf though...
Cheers
Walter Reumkens on 5 Frames with a Voigtlander 40mm f/2 in Nikon F Mount
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