The Voigtlander 28mm Ultron II doesn’t suck

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The Voigtlander 28mm Ultron II was my most used lens in 2023 and is every bit as good as its Leica counterpart.
It's a DANK certified deadly lens, and if I were you, I'd get this lens and spend your $4,000 savings on a Leica body, Logan Paul's next NFT scam, a trip across the world, or maybe, just maybe... a rainy day.
Find me nowhere here: linktr.ee/frankdavalos
Timecodes
00:00 - Skip all this
10:15 - A big ol’ photo dump 💩
*Also I lied, some of the photos taken in the 💩 samples, particularly those shared from 12 31 to 13 00 were taken on the M10 Monochrom! Oopsie poopsie!
Music by Regina legends Andino Suns, one of my fav tunes “Napoli”.

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@jerryni9589 5 ай бұрын

Sensor needs clean

@qtwhat 6 ай бұрын

good to see you back!

@bngr_bngr 6 ай бұрын

I started photography in junior high school with a 28 & 135. Now I have a few short lens that are zooms. I mostly use telephoto lens for most of my photography.

@wearetrackclub 6 ай бұрын

Nice review, Frank! Interesting to hear your perspective, love the shots too 🙌❤

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching 🙏

@qtwhat 6 ай бұрын

i skipped the skip part as you said; and directly went to the pics, and love them all and the music as well. keep posting!🎉

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

🙏🙏🙏 thank you for watching my friend!

@krappy_ 6 ай бұрын

Thank you. I had the Ultron 35 that I absolutely loved and was thinking of buying again. But the 28 looks great. I feel some gas coming on! Great images too.

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! You can’t go wrong either way!

@TheChosenOne_ 6 ай бұрын

The Elmarit is amazing although I feel like it’s a little too small. I might one day get the summicron, not because of the extra stop but to make it more comfortable to focus. Also regarding frame lines, glasses, viewfinder magnification. I am (was) in the same boat. But I got an external 28mm viewfinder and it’s great. Obviously only really works for zone focussing but it’s really enjoyable to have that oldschool decoupled rangefinder viewfinder combo. And it works perfectly with glasses

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

Yeah I could see that, it is a really small lens. I also have a Leica 28 finder and that’s exactly how I use it! It is def my fav way to use a 28mm. I even used it without glasses haha

@Zimh91 3 ай бұрын

Probably my favorite lens for the M-system ! (I use it on a M11) , Thanks a lot for the video and I really enjoyed your diaporama, the little sound and the photos were great ! It actually makes me think again about trying the Analog M experience, because I really felt the difference of feelings by looking on the film photos versus the digital. I mean, the digital are great, but there was a little something on the film ones :)

@FrankDavalos 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and I really appreciate the kind comment. Analog always wins!

@linjicakonikon7666 6 ай бұрын

Good video 👍 I love Voightlander lenses. I have multiple copies of the 21mm f4 Color Skopar snd 25mm f4 Snapshot Skopar Ltm lenses. Tiny and crisp modern lenses for Film photography.

@reyrey5250 6 ай бұрын

finally hes back with another video!!

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

Only took 10 months! 😂

@thedarkslide 6 ай бұрын

There's the Thypoch now and Voigtlaender announced a f1.5 as well. There's also the Zeiss Biogon.

@SCampbell86 6 ай бұрын

Voigtlander is about to release a Nokton 28mm f1.5 and it looks amazing. Much smaller than 28mm Summilux. Will be interesting to see a head-to-head with the Thypoch 28mm f1.4

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

I’ll definitely try to get my hands on it!

@ianforber 6 ай бұрын

How do you think this would compare against the CV 28mm f2.8 Color Skopar Type II? Not as fast but much smaller.

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

Lots of street photographers love that lens! It’s probably not as technically sound, but still an awesome lens especially on the street

@jimtong 6 ай бұрын

Nice review, agree with you as I have this lens too. Any plan to check out the new 28mm Nokton F1.5?

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

Yeah definitely!

@blakelyle2158 5 ай бұрын

would love to see WAY more footage of the products in your videos! Great work though!

@FrankDavalos 5 ай бұрын

Do you mean of the actual lens? Like you want to see how the lens looks? There’s probably way better videos and websites for that kinda thing than my videos Lolol.

@CuDerRaGer 4 ай бұрын

curious to see your thoughts on the typoch 28

@FrankDavalos 4 ай бұрын

Just putting final touches on my Thypoch vid! Stay tuned!

@A1000Truths 6 ай бұрын

Yeah I love the 28 Ultron. I have it and pair it with the Voightlander 50mm F2 APO.

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

Nice! I didn’t love my copy of the APO, despite it being an amazing lens it was just a bit too perfect for me. Both are objectively fantastic lenses though!

@Fat-totoro-cat 6 ай бұрын

The minolta 28mm is a great little lens as well.

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

This one I’ve never even heard of!

@neverninetofive 6 ай бұрын

Voigtländer is about to drop a 28 1.5 👀

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

I’m here for it!

@dinomao3841 5 ай бұрын

Remarkable pictures

@FrankDavalos 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🙏

@PreFontaineRC76 6 ай бұрын

Dangit Frank, just sold my q2 to simplify down to just an M10, and you can't be tellin me this is that good. Guess i'ma have to pick one up.

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

It’s def not Summilux good, but it’s really good!

@riswanc 6 ай бұрын

Nice lens frank, i think u meant the 0.58 mag viewfinder instead of 0.85 since the former will accommodate the 28mm frameline better than thr 0.72 while the latter will diminish 28mm frame line once n for all, but i used 28mm on my 0.85 and just having the guesstimate since focus patch in the middle matters more to me

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

I think I said 0.58x didn’t I? Because yes I’ve had a 0.85x M6 so I’m familiar! Maybe I misspoke!

@riswanc 6 ай бұрын

@@FrankDavalos bummer now i need to check if i have misheard it! Thanks for the vid mate great seeing u back 🍻

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

@@riswanc 07:15 for reference brother! Thanks for watching hermano, appreciate you🙏

@liamrjf 6 ай бұрын

Legend 💥🍻

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

🙏

@JacobChristiansen1 6 ай бұрын

the 28mm summicron (newest non close focus version), is better than the 35mm summicron and probably my favorite Leica lens. I don't think you mentioned if you've tried the summicron, but it's not just about sharpness, also handling and color. Like you mentioned, the fact there is no indicator when you go to the close focus range makes it a dealbreaker on film.

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

Better in what way? They’re both great and in my mind, it’s just a matter of focal length preference. Yeah I have tried the 28 cron! Amazing lens but just expensive. Agree though, they need to just add a stop at 0.7 and then I’d have zero complaints about this lens.

@JacobChristiansen1 6 ай бұрын

@@FrankDavalos it's marginal, but it has less flare, sharper and better color (at least on film). The 35mm asph is not bad either.

@JacobChristiansen1 6 ай бұрын

@@FrankDavalos I haven't tried the new close focus summicron yet though

@FrankDavalos 6 ай бұрын

@@JacobChristiansen1 do you know if it has a close focus indicator?

@JacobChristiansen1 6 ай бұрын

@@FrankDavalos it has a sort of a significant bump/resistance when crossing over