High-Quality Wide-Angle Prime. The Voigtlander 50mm f/2 APO-Lanthar Aspherical II’s compact build and versatile focal length make it ideal for a broad range of shooting situations, particularly those in which you want your subject to stand out. The reasonably fast f/2 aperture lets you shoot in low light while offering excellent focus control when using shallow depth-of-field techniques, and the rounded twelve-blade diaphragm lets you render smooth bokeh. Using an APS-C camera? You’ll get a 75mm focal length.

Updated Optical Design. This second-gen model comes equipped with an impressive updated optical design, featuring a floating elements system containing two aspherical lenses and five partial dispersion lenses within 10 elements in 8 groups. The addition of these lenses allows your image quality to soar, with reduced aberrations, improved contrast, and enhanced overall image quality!

Manual Focus and Aperture. This lens’s manual-focus design gives you silent, smooth, precision control over focus placement. Its stepless, de-clicked manual aperture ring allows for optimum exposure control, and you can configure the ring to use traditional 1/3-stop clicks by simply pulling and rotating it if you want something a little more tactile. Even though this is a manually focusing lens, it transfers EXIF data to the camera so that you can use in-camera stabilization, magnification, focus assistance, and other features.