🔴 BEST 28mm Lens for Leica? (+ Nikon)

28mm lens test review comparison in Lightroom. Best Leica 28mm lens? Watch before you buy!

28mm lenses compared: Voigtlander Ultron 28 f2 v2, Leica Elmarit 28mm 2.8, Leica Summicron 28mm f2, Voigtlander 28mm Ultron f2 v1 (All Leica M mount), Canon 28mm f2.8 LTM (Screw Mount Lens), Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35 1.4 MC (Leica M mount), + Nikkor 28mm AIS 2.8, Nikon 28mm Pre-AI f2.8, Nikkor E-Series 28mm, Voigtlander Skopar 28mm 2.8 SL for Nikon (manual focus SLR lenses). Lenses were tested on digital Leica SL camera and photos reviewed in Adobe Lightroom. Lens test reviews the centre sharpness, bokeh, vignetting, colour saturation, contrast, 3D pop.

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0:00 Intro
2:57 Nikon 28mm Lens Test
5:57 Leica 28mm Lens Test
12:21 Best 28mm Lens

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[Narsuitus]

Thanks for the video.

My three best performing 28mm lenses are:
28mm f/2.8 Nikkor for Nikon F mount
28mm f/2.8 Zeiss for Contax G1 rangefinder
28mm f/2 Zeiss Distagon for Nikon F mount

I do not have and do not need a 28 for my Leica.

[AndrejsZavadskis]

for me the best Nikon 28mm lens is Nikon 28mm f/1.4 AF-D (1994-2006). Love the bokeh. Can be used on manual and autofocus Nikon cameras.

[philmtxfr]

Color Skopar is astonishing… same perf as Nikon avis but very more compact and minimal distance is outstanding !!! A real discovery.

[brotherdom]

Great to see someone who deals with their topic and not pushing their face for the duration of the video .I love these older lenses and have stripped and cleaned them, and most got reassembeled but not all .Some age better than OTHERS.

[MB-orjs]

Love the tabs underneath the video to allow scrolling directly to the topic of interest. My focus in primary on M/LTM-mount lenses, so I directly jumped into these lens tests in your video. Thanks for doing the test!

[neilpiper]

The Nikkor 28mm 2.8 ais comes out top in most tests and my own experience. Better value for money than the Leica and Voightlander lenses which are very expensive.

[arrangearrange]

Gotta go with the zeiss distagon 28 for Nikon f and the zeiss biogon for Leica m, personally, although pretty much all of these lenses are great.

[thomastuorto]

Subbed! Hoping to find some Leica camera model comparison reviews vid & see where you stand on the new SL2 camera & l lens. Are the y becoming like all the others or do they still produce something special?

[tjunglec]

Thank you Matt ! I do own the canon 28 LTM and it's brilliantly compact. Mine just doesn't seem anything like as sharp as your copy. Maybe I'll get it deep cleaned and see if it gets a little more crispy. Still eyeing off the new voigtlander I've got to say ! Thanks again

[odessa_in_heart]

Thank you so much for this review. How great, it is that someone has so many different lenses to test. Once again - many thanks for your work.

[johnrflinn]

The Nikor 28mm F2.0 is my favorite lens for astrophotography especially for Northern Lights.

[Ham-yjod]

It's so rewarding to see your clips on YouTube, very informative and unbiased. Sorry do you have any opinions on "Voigtlander ULTRON 28mm f/1.9 Aspherical", is it any better than Voigtlander 28/2? Thanks

[jude]

So the takeaway from this once agin is that all these brand name lenses are a great choice unless you're pixel peeping, the canon ltm is the best all around in terms of sharpness bokeh and overall rendering with the addition of being better for black and white no to mention size..my friend loves his but i always thought it wouldn't be good enough being a wide angle of that era, this test proved me wrong.Keep them coming ..your last test helped me get over thinking a leica R 50mm summicron would be miles ahead of the nikon etc..now i'm definitely getting the 50mm f2 nikon.😊👍🏾

[zoltankaparthy]

I'm really happy I bought the Canon 28mm f/2.8. Good color. Also got the old Canon 50mm f/1.4, also a nice lens. Both quite affordable. Used on an 8.2, 9 or 240. IR - UV on the 8.2.

[MC-hrpy]

Matt your videos are awesome. I recently picked up a Nikon FE2 as my first film camera and it's great to see these lens comparisons. I picked up the voigtlander 40mm f2 ultron thanks to your video. Now I might need to get the voigtlander 28mm.

[xymonata]

Hey Matt! Nice video! Does the nikkor 28mm f2.8 ais fit on Leica m6?

[justinmueller]

Hi Matt, I've a 28 series e nikon that I rate, it's the one with a chrome ring, I think that the quality of the plastic only earlier ones may not be as good because nikon got flak for them, just saying...

[indraneilbiswas]

I have the 28 mm f/2.8 Voigtlaender for Nikon F and its an excellent little lens. The microcontrast, colour saturation, image rendition, sharpness is quite amazing. However, it is no longer available new (dont know why Cosina does this !) and I was lucky to get the last one from the online store I had got it from. I have also used it on a DX Nikon to do a fake 40 mm, and it also does the job well.

[weisserth]

My best 28mm is without a doubt the Zeiss Biogon 28mm f/2.8 on my Contax G2. It's noticeably better on film than my Leica Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8. Sharper, more contrast and basically no distortion at all. I wonder how that Zeiss performs in M mount.

[dlyon]

Thank you for another very interesting valuable video. As a possible future video, I would be very interested your discussion about 20mm (or thereabouts) lenses.