Originally posted by Jonas B That is a heavy bastard James. Strong arms, a heavy tripod, a good flash, light - use what you have at hands and the reward is obvious! Congratulations to this fine lens..
Jonas, I did not use tripod or flash at all (I know I have been naughty - a lot of shots do not appear to be in focus after post processing at home, conversion from RAW to JPEGs.)
Though I did not make a controlled experiment comparing all the macros, it is stark obvious that Tamron has a lot of shadow areas showing up while Voigtlander brings up no dark black spots at all.
A* 200mm macro is too dark to use and interestingly, the view finder appears so dark and its images are bright pale green instead of the dark green in Voigtlander. The graduation of the bokeh tends to be smoother with Voigtlander as well ...
Originally posted by Jonas B (Btw, the other Cosina Voigtländer lenses are a mixed collection I'm afraid, The 125mm macro is the gem, the SL75/2.5 is very good, in the same league as the FA77, the other ones are not as exciting imho.)
Thank you for the advice. Now I gonna think twice about it. I know 12mm and 15mm only have Leica M mount and the only k mount voiglander lenses would be either 75mm or 180mm f4 ... Since this is your opinion, I definitely take it as a grain of salt.
Maybe I will stop it there with Voigtlander collection.