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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