[bollicina31]

Good morning to all,
as I said, indeed wrote, in another post
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-slr-lens-discussion/101725-my-ex-p...5960418-a.html
I have stolen my a * 135.
Now I would buy it again, but I don't know if choose still 135 * or betting on Voigtlander 125.
I asked this question after seeing this site
PLG SMC Pentax-A* 135mm 1:1.8 vs Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 125mm F2.5 SL
Guardardo the cropp, at f/2.8 the voigtlander seems very advantage, coloured, sharpening and friming non-existent.
Looking at this site, it seems that the famous Pentax, both a dustbin ..... It seems strange to me. ..

Last thing, I had the 135 *, sin which are not, never managed to use it,
so I do not have even one click.

Last thing I would ask you not to treat the side macro.

Thank you

[Asahiflex]

The VL125 won me over not only because the absence of purple fringing, but also for being insanely sharp wide open. This portrait was shot wide open:

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo293/spotmatic/apojeroen.jpg

Notice the microcontrast! So I'll never get rid of mine. It does landscapes also extremely well.

[bollicina31]

The VL125 won me over not only because the absence of purple fringing, but also for being insanely sharp wide open. This portrait was shot wide open:

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo293/spotmatic/apojeroen.jpg

Notice the microcontrast! So I'll never get rid of mine. It does landscapes also extremely well.

Cabbage ... really well defined.
For now, 1-0 for the voigtlander

The problem is to find one

[Asahiflex]

Cabbage ... really well defined.
For now, 1-0 for the voigtlander

The problem is to find one

Indeed; it took me over a year to persuade the original owner to sell it to me

Fortunately, finding one should not be much harder than to find an A* 135/1.8. But it isn't easy indeed. You can only hope for Cosina to re-issue the 125 just like they did with its smaller brother:

Voigtländer Apo-Lanthar 90mm SL II now available in Europe: Digital Photography Review

[glasbak]

Well, the Lanthar has a terrible underexpose at 1.8
The A* has a serious purple fringing problem wide open, the test mentioned in the first post suffers from exposure differences, and probably also some focus variation, which makes the comparison a bit difficult.
I suspect that serious differences are gone at 1:4.0 and smaller apertures.
I have to do my own test if I find the time.

[bollicina31]

Indeed; it took me over a year to persuade the original owner to sell it to me

Fortunately, finding one should not be much harder than to find an A* 135/1.8. But it isn't easy indeed. You can only hope for Cosina to re-issue the 125 just like they did with its smaller brother:

Voigtländer Apo-Lanthar 90mm SL II now available in Europe: Digital Photography Review

The problem is just that, or find ...

a new 125 SL II would be nice

Well, the Lanthar has a terrible underexpose at 1.8
The A* has a serious purple fringing problem wide open, the test mentioned in the first post suffers from exposure differences, and probably also some focus variation, which makes the comparison a bit difficult.
I suspect that serious differences are gone at 1:4.0 and smaller apertures.
I have to do my own test if I find the time.

I was also pensado the 135 A *, has not been well exploited.
According to many, and the photos you see around is a fantastic lens.
It seems strange that I afoto so painful.
Friming is suffering from a knowledge of all now.

[bollicina31]

Well, the Lanthar has a terrible underexpose at 1.8
The A* has a serious purple fringing problem wide open, the test mentioned in the first post suffers from exposure differences, and probably also some focus variation, which makes the comparison a bit difficult.
I suspect that serious differences are gone at 1:4.0 and smaller apertures.
I have to do my own test if I find the time.

Can you kindly just a test, it takes just 2 clicks
@ F / 2.5, just to understand whether they have the wrong focus, or do I really worth 135 A *

I would be very grateful

[bollicina31]

up please

Please, give me your suggestion, an opinion.
According to you, the difference between the Voigtlander and Pentax is so much??
By link that I posted on top
It seems that pentax has a scrap in comparison.

Help!!

Ps:
is it true that the Pentax, is difficult to use, at the level of focus??
tkx

[Asahiflex]

Just try to persuade glasbak (see above) to do a test for you because he owns both lenses. He has limited time though. Or maybe I should ask him to get this lens from him on loan for a short time (I have done that before)

[glasbak]

Just some astro photo's I made some time ago at my lightpolution plagued location.
This was the moment I discovered that my k20d came back from repair with another problem than it had before (extreme noisy, and a strange band).
This was solved by a second repair.

I made these pictures to test how usefull live view is for astrophotography, I do not think I achieved the optimum focus for all pictures yet.

They show the area around M51, near the big dipper (ursa major).
First the resized aps-c image, then two 100% crops
The first crop is the (vastly overexposed) star alkaid of ursa major.
The second crop is galaxy M51.

A*85 at 1.4:


A*85 at 1.4 crop alkaid :


A*85 at 1.4 crop M51 :


Here the lightpolition brightens the background, the exposure of 20 sec was too long.
All other exposure times are the same, 30 sec.


A*135 at 1.8:


A*135 at 1.8 crop alkaid :


A*135 at 1.8 crop M51 :



Next raw pictures I had to stretch the levels seriously.

V125 at 2.5:


V125 at 2.5 crop alkaid :


V125 at 2.5 crop M51 :



A*200 at 2.8:


A*200 at 2.8 crop alkaid :


A*200 at 2.8 crop M51 :


It is clear that the Voigtlander and the A*200 have superior color corrrections, but the speed of the 135/1.8 allows the better recording of M51.

Also note that although the exif records 2.4, and the Voigtlander is sold as a 2.5, the real value is probably closer to 2.8 than 2.4.

George