I love 23mm focal lens "as a fuji user" and I bought this lens almost a year a go and I am having a blast with it and now I am thinking of using it in my events/paid work as I am confident now with it, its my go to lens for travel and street, and yes if you are looking for sharpness edge to edge or you are going to zoom to 400 don't buy it but if you are willing to slow down and create something different and unique its a keeper "I have the new 1.4 WR LM 23mm but I always go for the Voigtlander"

Love this lens. It has the most actual “filmic” out of focus areas I’ve ever seen on a modern lens.

I have 15 or so manual lenses and this is one of my favourites. The biggest issue I have is the cost. Voigtlander lenses are lovely, I have 4 of them, but expensive. If willing to adapt M lenses and you don’t need a “fast lens”, check out the Voigtlander 50mm F3.5 Heliar m mount. The cost is more reasonable and it is truly vintage looking but with modern sharpness and rendering.

Nice video. I just got the 27mm f/2 Voightlander and am enjoying going back to manual focus with accurate DOF scales and on my lens, perfect true infinity when the hard stop hits. I've been considering this 23mm since a 35mm lens was my "normal" for decades in the film era. Thanks for your well produced video which is very useful for its honesty.

I have numerous vintage lenses that give me a vintage look at a fraction of the cost (Flektogon, Pancolar, voigtlander M glass). However, I bought this lens as it keeps my kit compact without the need of a hideous adapter. The way it renders in focus and out focus areas is what impresses me the most. The lens has character. Because of this, subjects seem to pop more and my images seem less flat compared to my fuji glass. It's difficult to explain. Still images of people seem more alive, so to speak. Too clinical can suck the life out of an image as if you were looking at a xerox photo copy of sorts.

Infinity focus is a feature and not a bug, most lenses have it (if not all). It is to provide extra room for compensating thermal expansion/shrinkage otherwise you wound not be able to dial focus in extreme temperature.

You can easily adjust the hard stop for infinity focus. And for people saying it’s for compensation of the thermal expansion : I travel from freezing cold areas to the hottest ones, never had an issue. And if so, it would take 10min to set it back. Also, some high grade manual lenses don’t have this buffer and are very well calibrated from factory… Really try it, it then becomes a dream to shoot at infinity focus :)

I always thought that for infrared photography, the focus ring needs to be turned a little bit beyond infinity to get sharp images? The white angle is for focussing infrared on infinty, this should be at the end of the line below the infinty symbol.

Great video!!! I am just getting into photography and this was super helpful in reviewing camera's. I'll definitely check out more of your videos! thanks

Voigtländer lenses are just stunning lenses. Most other lenses are just exchangeable.

Cool review enjoyed the images.I am tempted with the 35 1.2,50 1.2 and the new 18 2.8 which I would like to hear your views on if ever possible.Thanks.

Great review! Does focus peaking work on the x-t1 with this lens?

Hello, as of today, are you still loving it?

voightlander 23mm 1.2 or ttartisan 23mm 1.4 ?

Kinda hard to stomach the price

A very expensive lens, think I’ll stick with my fujicron 23/f2.

Great review but there is nothing more annoying than the "crackling" sound in there...

0:45 yeah, basically saying its a soft lens with flaws (character) that could be added in post but nobody can be arsed or don't know how to do it. avoid. start with the highest quality image from the start, not something with 'effects' already built into it that you'll find hard to remove.

God dammit that audio clipping!

promo sm

The Angry Photographer reviewed this lens and he sayed this lens is muddy unsharp. I don't know if he had bad copy or what. From the example images i can't tell.

Do you think adding audio noise to your videos make them more artful or what?!

Talk less and show more photo, it getting annoying that I have to fast forward so often to see the picture. Like people will be more interested to see the work of the camera than see your face and hear your rambling.