Hmm. Voigtlander at Photokina

jaapv said:
Cosina is not listed. Voigtländer Hall 02.1, booth D020-D028

Hmmm, wonder what they will be showing.

Also, I wonder if this means Stephen will be running out on us again and having another "Free Shipping" sale while he is gone? 😀
 
I'm with Dingo's wish/guess.. A non-ugly bessa with-a-proper-rf-baseline version of Zeiss Ikon. Oh with a quiet shutter..

A multi finder like a zoom or improved imarect would be nice too..
 
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"leaf shutter bellows RF" & "A re-launched Perkeo IV Medium format folder"... ... yeah!!! and why not throw in an rf 4x5 inch, folder of course,....
 
Bessar RF with longish EBL, shorter height, built in silent motor drive and quieter shutter, painted titanium shell.... oh, and 36x24mm 12mp sensor.

🙂
 
irees said:
Bessar RF with longish EBL, shorter height, built in silent motor drive and quieter shutter, painted titanium shell.... oh, and 36x24mm 12mp sensor.

🙂
Why motor drive then? 😀
 
The digital part was the fantasy afterthought I tacked on at the end. 🙂

But yeah, looks like I'm gonna have to leave this forum. I decided not to get a film camera and new lenses, when I already have a dSLR setup (I decided my time was more valuable than the marginal improvements in size/quietness I'd see from a film RF)... gonna spend the money on the remaining fast primes I need instead (30/1.4, 85/1.8).
 
irees said:
The digital part was the fantasy afterthought I tacked on at the end. 🙂

But yeah, looks like I'm gonna have to leave this forum. I decided not to get a film camera and new lenses, when I already have a dSLR setup (I decided my time was more valuable than the marginal improvements in size/quietness I'd see from a film RF)... gonna spend the money on the remaining fast primes I need instead (30/1.4, 85/1.8).

Stay in the neighbourhood! 🙂dslrexchange
 
I'm sure it will be, as others have suggested, the faster, RF-coupled 25. And maybe also some incrementally revised versions of the Bessa series. Time to put that chassis out to pasture, I think, and come up with something new -- though I doubt that will happen.

I would be happy with another iteration of the Bessa chassis if it's a folder incorporating the new 50/2 Heliar in a leaf shutter. A Vito IV! That would be great. But it's not going to happen.
 
"Bessa A La Carte" anyone?
I guess some variation of the 25mm--probably M-mount and RFcoupled?
Though I agree with you other folks wanting a medium format folder, I would be(very happily!) astonished to see any thing like that.
But since we're offering unlikely ideas: Bessa Rx with match needle metering...😀
Rob
 
If Voigtlaender is to stir things up, it would have to be with a fantastic lens or a fantastic camera.

This would have to be with either a 21mm f/1.9 (Ultron?) in LTM (not M, Zeiss would be oh not so happy), or a digital Bessa rangefinder.

If it were to steal the show, it would most certainly be a digital rangefinder. It would be somewhat akin to Nixon going to China, though.
 
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