Voigtländer 35mm f/2 APO Lanthar Review

The Voigtländer 35mm f/2 APO Lanthar is a top of the range lens with fantastic sharpness, no distortion, minimal chromatic aberration, and pleasing bokeh. It has exceptional build quality and performs well in various lighting conditions. Although expensive, it is highly recommended for its outstanding performance.

Overall, I had great expectations for this expensive lens, but thankfully, expectations were pretty much met. This is one of the highest quality 35mm lenses out there, offering fantastic sharpness, no distortion, minimal chromatic aberration, and pleasant bokeh, along with top-notch build quality. Although it is expensive, it is highly recommended.

The build quality is exceptional. It handles like one of the best quality manual lenses I've ever used, and it feels rock solid, built to very tight tolerances.

The Voigtländer 35mm f/2 APO Lanthar lens is a high-quality manual lens designed for mirrorless cameras. It features exceptional build quality with a solid and durable construction. Despite its old-fashioned design, it handles like one of the best quality manual lenses, and its smooth and precise manual focus ring is complemented by its effective communication with Sony cameras, offering useful features like image stabilization and quick manual focus recognition. The lens also boasts an unusual shape of the aperture with 12 iris blades, providing a variety of different bokeh shapes and strengths. The image quality is impressive, offering excellent sharpness and no reduction in quality at the corners, with minimal vignetting and distortion. It performs well in bright light, with high contrast, minimal flaring, and no visible coma in the image corners. The bokeh is smooth, and longitudinal chromatic aberration is minimal, living up to its APO designation. Overall, this lens exceeds expectations, offering exceptional sharpness, no distortion, minimal chromatic aberration, and pleasing bokeh, along with top-notch build quality, making it highly recommended despite its high price.

This lens exceeds expectations, offering exceptional sharpness, no distortion, minimal chromatic aberration, and pleasing bokeh, along with top-notch build quality, despite its high price.