Some wide angle captures using the A7 + Voigtlander SW 15mm Heliar f4.5, that I acquired this week.
Yes, it smears and it has colour shift but on the other hand the compositional possibilities and the dramatic output is worth it.
This is the fourth time I have owned this lens. I had two first versions for my M8 and finally the newer m-bayonet version. In between my first and second copy I had the Leica WATE. When that reached a value equivalent to the GDP of a small country, I sold the WATE invested the money and bought another CV 15.
When I sold my Leica kit I sold the lens, never thinking I would have the opportunity to use one again. Thank you, Sony.
Incidentally, from my experience on the M8 I know it is not even necessary to focus this lens. I just put it on f8 and set it to infinity. Everything between 3ft and infinity is, in effect, in focus.
Some Regent's Canal stuff
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This kind of shot is hard to create with anything else...
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Good example of the type of dramatic perspective possible, although there is obvious distortion.
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For architectural interiors it opens up a lot of possibilities - mind you so did my Fuji GSW690 but it weighed about 3 times this combination! New King's Cross canopy, opened in 2013.
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It allows certain creative possibilities that go beyond even a 21mm lens. This is detail from the frieze surrounding Paul Day's 'Meeting Point' (foreground) and in the background the latest installation art, 'Chromolocomotion' by David Batchelor, at St Pancras International Station, London.
Note that this is a 6x7 crop - the 15mm allows the ability to extract in a format most suitable and of course the 24mm sensor allows a lot of 'cropability'. Good combination.
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A dramatic full frame shot of the 'Betjemin' statue showing other installations and a good deal of the restored Barlow Engine Shed at St Pancras.
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