Voigtlander 28mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar

5 Frames with a Leica Standard & Voigtlander 28mm f/3.5

By Hamish Gill / January 10, 2018 November 29, 2020 / 5 frames with... / 7 Comments

This Leica is the camera in my collection that seems to raise the most eyebrows. I’m going to write about using it properly sometime, but briefly, the questions I get asked the most are around the practicalities of shooting such an old camera. The beauty of it is – the thing that most people who …

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Voigtlander 28mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar Review

By Hamish Gill / November 26, 2017 November 29, 2020 / Lenses / 35 Comments

The Voigtlander 28mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar fits into a category of lenses I own that I can’t quite entirely rationalise. It’s a lens that I only use once or twice a year, but despite this I can’t part with it. Whilst some of my reasons for keeping it feel quite legitimate, a good few of my reasonings aren’t entirely rational! I shall start with the less rational, and work up from there…