Welcome David, alway's enjoyable to see your work.
No doubt, I feel your pain, as 18 & 25 Batis render beautifully. Yes the 85 Loxia is another winner, a very popular lens for landscape shooters, and the 135 Batis, well as you say, its special. Love it's rendering for the kind of shooting I would do with it.!!
Appreciate your feed back on the Loxia 35. I did read its best at f8, f11 which would be where I would be using it. Good to hear your report regarding flaring & ghosting, as that was kind of putting me off, as I've been debating between it and the CV35apo.
Ah, I see…I didn’t know your reason for asking about the Loxia 35mm. Now that I more fully understand your frame of reference I need to share more critically important details in choising between CV 35 and Loxia 35.
I must tell you that Loxia lenses are not fun to handle. Their little unarticulated barrels offer no solid purchase for your fingers mounting/dismounting; there is very little space between the aperture and focus rings. From an ergonomics standpoint I vastly prefer the Voigtländer lenses. Indeed the difference couldn’t be more extreme for me: Loxia lenses have the worst handling, while CV lenses have the absolute best handling. The way CV lenses are wonderfully knurled with lovely dampened focus rings is sooo satisfying in use (for me).
I haven’t researched the CV 35mm Apo, but I generally regard CV lenses to be nearly as good as Loxias in color rendering to the point where that wouldn’t factor in my decision-making. So why the heck do I have a Loxia kit versus a Voigtländer kit??
The main reason I shoot Loxias for my landscape kit over CV lenses comes down to a shared 52mm filter thread. This allows me to have a nice range of NDs and Dark CPLs (Breakthrough) in a very small pouch. And the Loxia lenses tend to be smaller and weigh less (e.g. CV 65 vs Loxia 85). And another major deciding factor in my choice is that while Voigtländer has superb choices at 21mm and 35/40mm, they don’t have an 85mm lens and that was important to me.
Sorry for writing this book, but you’re making a tough choice and I want you to know the complete truth about Loxias. And if you’re just buying a 35mm lens and aren’t trying to create a complete set of Loxias, then I would be choosing Voigtländer if the CV lens is equal or better than the Loxia optically (sharpness, flares, sunstars, etc.).
If it suits me, then I’ll be selling the FE 12-24G and Sigma 14-24mm Art.
