fifteen millimeters is this lens too wide find out in my review coming up
alright guys so I'm gonna talk to you today about the Voigtlander 15
millimeter lens now let's go over the technical stuff first and then I'm gonna
tell you about my real-world experience using it so it's a 15 millimeter lens it
is compatible both Wolfe with full frame and with mirrorless cameras so if you
have a full-frame sensor or a crop sensor it's gonna work fine with either
one it's a manual focus lens so that is a limitation that it has but it is able
to focus within one foot of your subject so if you go closer than a foot you're
not going to be able to focus but it can go all the way up to a 1 foot of the
subject that you're trying to focus on it requires a 50/50 eight millimeter
filter so you can put a filter on the front end to protect it which some
wide-angle lenses you can't it also has this built-in hood on the front so that
that protects from lens flare and ghosting and things like that so it has
that already built in the e-mount lens so the aperture goes from f/4 point 5
all the way to f-22 so you have a good range there the size is really small
only weighs about 10 ounces and next to my iphone you can see relatively the
iPhone 7 how big this is it's really small if it's in your hand
it's really sturdy built it's it's made in Japan not that being made in Japan
makes it sturdy but it is well built it feels very robust and has a little
weight to it because you know it's well-built doesn't feel plasticy but
it's not super heavy you know I can I can walk around I can shoot with this
thing I'm not going to get a sore back or anything like that
so for that reason it's nice so I've used this lens in all types of
conditions I've shot with it for a few months and in rain and extreme heat and
really cold weather and it's been fine now obviously you don't
want to get it really wet but getting some rain on it won't really bother the
lens too much and my experience has been overall a positive one one thing I
really like is it's a manual focus lens but the focus ring really is smooth you
can get a really nice smooth focus going back and forth it just feels really
natural really well built you can also set it where it clicks from one stop to
the other if you want but the focus ring is silent so if you shoot with video
this is a great lens because you can use this focus while you're shooting and it
won't make any sound so I want to own affect your audio it's it's 15
millimeters but it's really it was originally built for full-frame but I
think it's better for mirrorless cameras that have a 1.5 crop sensor so for those
smaller sensors it's nice this amount lens because you can put it on your
camera like the Sony a 65 hundred or any other meritless camera and it will be
the equivalent of 20 2.5 inches so having sorry 20 2.5 millimetres 20 2.5
millimeters is a good focal range it's a good wide-angle focal range without
being too wide 15 millimeters is actually almost too wide for most shots
in my personal experience like anything beyond 20 in the low 20 is like 20 to 24
anything lower than that when you start getting into the teens like 19 18 15
millimeters that's super wide angle so on a full-frame camera this is super
wide angle on a and it looks super wide and you're probably not going to come
across many shots like that unless all you do is shoot like panoramas and stuff
super wide so I found this to be a good overall lens to shoot wide-angle but
it's not too wide when used on a mirrorless camera so that 20 2.5
millimeters is really nice it doesn't have much distortion at all I
found it to be really nice that's one thing I really liked about it for a wide
angle because a lot of times you have a wide angle and it has some distortion
one thing I will say is the f-stop only going to four point five is kind of a
downside to me because I would have liked to see it gone down to two point
eight but again for the price you can't beat this Labs I think for the price and
the look that you get you're going to be very pleased with this lens if this was
a 2.8 lens it would probably double maybe more than double the price
so having 4.5 you don't really need the 2.8 in most cases however I use other
voigtländer lenses because I like the look it has more of a distinct look so
it doesn't look like the Canon and the nikon can kind of camp all lenses i like
more of a say this lens has more character to it so having that character
is nice however in this lens i didn't see as much character as some of the
other boy lander lenses like i have the 40 millimeter 2.8 and that had a lot of
character so this this lens while being great it wasn't it didn't blow me away
so it was really solid in all situations and i think you're gonna be pleased with
it but you're not gonna shoot footage if i
was shooting like a film or something real cinematic that i needed the best
possible lens i wouldn't use this lens however for travel vlogging for still
shooting documentaries and shooting films like that of that nature i think
this is a really solid lens so if you enjoyed this review please subscribe in
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