Voigtlander 28mm f/2.0 Ultron Vintage Asph Type I Test: Film Test Run.
I kind of introduced this lens with a post on its filigree. It is what the Voigtlander website calls this little focus lever dealie.
In that review I discussed my pursuit of a fast-ish wide-ish Voigtlander lens. I point you to that last post for more details, but the short version is I wanted a lens to plug a hole in my M Voigtlander trio…
…between the 21mm…
…and 40mm.
And after considering the Voigtlander Nokton 28mm f/1.5 Vintage Aspherical Type II VM and Voigtlander 28mm f/2.8 Color-Skopar Type I Aspherical I took the Goldilocks spec between the two price, size, and aperture spec wise.
In that last post, I also went through the different variations of this lens. The newest version came in three flavors. All three have the same internals so the sample images below will stand for all.
Location.
It was a rather dreary, rainy weekend here and I am mot a fan of trucking my gear out in such conditions. But today I noticed a break in the rain so I booked it for my usual haunt.
But (womp, womp, womp) they were very closed today. This just in. Checked the Duke Gardens website. The gardens are open. The parking lot is closed for construction for the next year. So, I could have gone. But I am fine the way things turned out. And we are back in 3, 2, 1…
So I went to another frequent haunt. Durham “downtown”… sorry… tried not to air quote that but this former NYC resident could not do it. I’ll try to fo better in the future. Anyhoo. I approached the area from a different angle so I grabbed the first parking spot I saw and approached from a new point of view. I liked it. Rain dropped for a little bit and I quickly put my gear away. But, I went right back at it when it let up. Enough preamble. Here are the film images.
Film.
I chose a favorite of mine, Fujifilm 400. As usual developed at home with Cinestill CS41.
I will close with some thoughts after.
Thoughts.
This lens is cuss word awesome.
No surprises there. Every Voigtlander I have ever owned has been fantastic.
- Sharp wide open.
- Great colors.
- Easy to focus.
- Not much distortion of any kind that I can see.
- Small.
- Great looking.
- Yeah. I know what I said in the last post. But, I could ask for no better build or looks wise. No matter what the brand name.
Given its spec zone focus is as easy as setting it to f/5.6 and moving Infinity to the appropriate marking. That is how I took the black and white street test photos in my previous digital image post about this lens.
Not much more to say for a rangefinder lens. No AF or additional switchgear to speak of like mainstream offerings.
Takes a great pic.
Looks good.
I can ask for no better.
Had worried when I picked up the M Type 240 that I might feel led to break the bank and acquire Leica glass. But with lenses like this I see absolutely no need to spend <checks notes. does a quick calculation.> 6.4x times as much or even more. I would not fault anyone who did. You do you. But, I am good.
Well done Voigtlander.
-ELW
Eric L. Woods 
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