I think it’s the single best feature of the lens beyond its focal length. The lens plays very well with Sony colors, that are not the best out there, to create, something that I find very pleasing. This lens is one of the great lenses for color photography from Voigtlander. I’m a big fan of Leica and Zeiss colors, and some Voigtlander colors. I love the colors this lens produces when photographing under good light.
Focus peaking and zoom are practically useless since just about everything is in focus all of the time, but the camera’s ability to tell you where you are focusing helps to more accurately zone focus the lens while shooting. Voigtlander is to be commended on their digital interface and how the camera collects all the proper metadata in addition to knowing where the camera is focused. I really enjoyed shooting the 10mm Voigtlander, and the way it interfaces with the Sony A7 is surprisingly advanced, while still feeling classic and analog. When I did my 15mm review, I described the experience as being almost like picking up a camera again for the first time, and I still feel like ultra wide-angle photography gives me that experience since I do it so rarely. There are just so many interesting things you can do with a lens this wide. You can even press your camera up against a window and photograph the inside of a store/building/exhibit, which produces an odd perspective, like you took the photo from inside from a point in space that doesn’t exist. It’s interesting and challenging to find new ways to compose pictures when you shoot this wide. I find it makes me reconsider composition, and it delights me to be able to shoot a multistory building standing on the side walk in front of the building. I like shooting ultra wide-angle for fun, and to change my perspective a little when I am bored with shooting around 50mm, which is my go to focal length.
Dxo viewpoint 2 rokinon 8mm professional#
There are professional reasons to shoot ultra wide-angle lenses and if you shoot architecture, a lens like this might be amazing for you to have in your bag, although a little difficult to master. Left – M-mount Right– E-mount (You can tell them apart because the M-mount gets thinner towards the base)Īfter shooting the Voigtlander Super Wide-Heliar 15mm f/4.5 Aspherical III for Leicarumors a few years ago, I developed a love for ultra wide-angle photography and picked up the Fujifilm XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS and Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 UMC Fisheye II for when the mood strikes me, but I have never owned a rectilinear lens wider than 15mm in part because they tend to be flawed or don’t exist on the cameras I own.
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