Voigtlander 21/4 Color-Skopar Photos

dfoo said:
That beijing shot is awesome.
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Thanks guys. One of those serendipitous moments. Was having a late day coffee with friends on the 2nd floor of the Sanlitun mall. On the way to the restroom you have to cross an elevated foot bridge. Turned to my left and saw this immense shaft of light coming down the between the two buildings. This was my only shot. I might have preferred it in B&W, but Kodachrome was what I had in my M3 at the time.
 
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I borrowed this lens from a friend to try a 21mm - it was great fun. This is the only scan from it (a dusty print):

 
Love this lens. By the way, it works great on the FSU cameras - it has so much depth of field that no shimming or other work-arounds required.

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This is on a Fed-2 (loved that camera and then gave it away).
 
The beauty of this lens is that it has no distortion and doesn't pull the corners of the image. Therefore it doesn't have to "look" like a 21mm (which quickly becomes tiresome anyway) and it's just a useful lens for when you don't have enough space to use anything else, or you want to pull in some background.
 
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