There's not exactly a lot to say about this lens. The only word I can think of to express myself is: Superb. Yes, it's expensive. Yes, it's heavy. No, it's not the fastest focusing lens out there but image quality is really first rate. And it's very fast being an f1.2 lens.

The following images were taken in a really dark environment with only some small spotlights inside where the birds resided. I hope the images will give you an idea of what to expect with this lens. Like the Olympus 75 f1.8 it is one of the sharpest lenses I have ever used. Very difficult to select which is the sharpest but we are talking very different focal lengths here and they would be used for differing purposes.

But one thing I can safely say, I'm really privileged to own both lenses.

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A carpet of leaves.

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This lens should apparently be one of the best lenses produced by Voigtländer. From my experience with my example, I can't really confirm that. I may have bought a lemon, it happens.

Extremely difficult to focus at f1.7 or near to that even with the focus peaking function on the Sony cameras. I can't even say that it's very sharp wide open, you would have to stop down quite a bit to get it sharp from corner to corner. With my example I'm talking f11 or thereabouts. Not exactly ideal in low light situations. Again, this lens performs best on APS-C sensors for obvious reasons. It's actually very decent on M43 cameras but that sensor is even smaller.

It's not a lens that I will be using often and I might find myself passing it on to someone and I have a few more 35mm lenses that perform a lot better on these full frame cameras like the native Sonnar T* FE 35 f2.8 ZA which is one heck of a lens.

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I have to admit this lens is simply magic!

When I saw this collar just hanging on a branch I asked myself who can actually lose a dog?