Voigtlander lens wish list

[cboy]

We've been blessed in an era of abundant lens options for the M mount, not the least of which are the recent array of options from Voigtlander. We are all spoilt for choice and thankful of the options, but we all have a particular niggling for a own style of photography what ever that may be. So if you had a lens wish list that Voigtlander, Leica or other third party manufacturer could make what would it be?

I hope sometime in future they continue with compact lens options f4 or greater. I'm a sucker for pancake lenses which are particularly useful for street. The Voigtlander 40mm f2.8 is a favourite of mine. So maybe a 35 /50mm f 4 apo pancake?

 

[Coldkennels]

More LTM, really.

I love their late 90s/early 2000s LTM offerings, and I was incredibly happy to see recent 40mm and 28mm lenses get LTM versions. But it'd be really nice to have that as a standard, not just a rare smattering. I already own the original LTM 28/3.5 Color Skopar, and don't shoot/need the 40mm one (although I've still thought about buying it a lot). But if some of the new fast 50s or 35s had LTM versions... that might be an instant purchase for me.

 

[Jonathan Lewenhaupt]

When Cosina / Voigtländer finally announce a 135mm in LTM or M mount, I'll be the happiest man in this Universe. Years and years of waiting patiently...

 

[trix4ever]

Something between 21mm and 15mm, say a compact 18mm f4. Seems like a big gap that needs filling.

 

[Coldkennels]

Something between 21mm and 15mm, say a compact 18mm f4. Seems like a big gap that needs filling.

...in LTM.

 

[trix4ever]

Or a modern Pancake 24 or 25mm, in ltm...

 

[Brambling]

some things I can easily read without any translation)))
So here too - easy to understand - and easy to write - there is a huge desire to shoot with Prominent (this is the only camera that I respect in absentia). And a couple of lenses, it seems to me, would be quite sufficient - 35 and 50 mm (21 and 35).

 

[Erik van Straten]

A 50mm f2 that beats all other 50mm f2 lenses.

 

[BillBingham2]

Not so much a specific lens, but damn I'd love to see some glass brought out in L Full Frame smart mount. By smart mount I mean information transferred, like the 18mm for Fuji. Yes, there are M to L converters, but that's silly.

While I asked for Full Frame, I'd use it on a CL (APS-C). Perhaps someday an SL, but it would be a lot of fun.

B2 (;->

 

[Nitroplait]

Maybe it helps if many are repeating: Just release everything in LTM and include an M adapter. How hard can it be?

 

[Disappointed_Horse]

Bring back the recently discontinued silver versions of the F-mount lenses, please. Also, a 90mm f/2.0 APO Nokton in F-mount would be nice.

I would also like to see the full-frame Z-mount lenses made in the "pre-AI" style of the DX Z-mount lenses.

 

[Godfrey]

hmm. My Leica lens kit is already past overflowing ... 10, 21, 24, 28, 32, 35 (2x), 40, 43, 50 (2x), 60 macro, 75, 90, 100 macro, 135, 180, (plus doubler) 270, 360 between Leica M, Leica R, Lomo, and Voigtänder. Some need the M Adapter R (or is it R Adapter M? can never keep that straight). Oh, add the el-cheap Sigma 500 reflex (with Nikon F -> M adapter)...

I can't think of any burning need or desire at present.

Actually, given some of those focal lengths, the next most sensible addition to my kit would be an M EV1 body (for the higher spec EVF compared to the Visoflex 020). 🤷‍♂️

G

 

[Coldkennels]

Just release everything in LTM and include an M adapter.

That's the thing: I've heard the LTM versions of the recent 28mm and 40mm lenses didn't sell well.

If they'd only had the LTM version and included an M mount adapter, that wouldn't be the case. Hell, you could package it with just an M mount rear cap so that LTM users effectively used the M adapter and M cap as their LTM rear cap, and I don't think anyone would complain.

Apparently LTM is harder to manufacture (more awkward to machine, less accurate lens positioning leading to cam and focusing problems), but Voigtlander have shown they can do it. And this is the company that made Contax mount lenses this millennium! No excuses, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[LCT]

Compact Ultrons 21/2 & 50/2 with 0.5m MFD.

 

[jbielikowski]

Looking at their most recent designs I really hope they finally dropped the stupid front chrome ring design. I'd love the all black Skopar or Ultron.

 

[Dogman]

I'm one of the few, the proud, who actually love the chrome filter rings.


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[LCT]

Smart design indeed. Similar to the Summilux 35/1.4 "steel rim" from the 60s but the black variant of the Apo-Skopar 90/2.8 is more discrete and causes less reflections.