Voigtlander Prominent RF

Thanks for all of your input. I have decided to keep both bodies and all the lenses and filters. I will sell the Macro stuff, since I rarely ever do macro.

Now, does anybody make adapters for these lenses? Silly question, but I thought I would throw it out there.

I have enjoyed shooting with the Prominent with the 35 and 100. I have not processed the film yet so that remains a mystery.
 
Cosina makes an adapter that allows you to use the Voigtlander lenses (at least the 35 and 50) on a Nikon Rf (and a Contax). I think there are M/TTM adapters available too. I use my 50f1.5 on Nikon Rf's and it is a very good lens. By many thought of as the best 50 mm lens from the 1950's.
The Voigtlander camera itself - is only rivaled by the Exacta as an ergonomic nightmare! Build quality is amazing - but I wish that the designers spent some time using it!!!!
 
I read somewhere that the designers of the Prominent were LF camera designers,and that the resulting camera is a nightmare because of this fact.
 
This is just part of the collection.
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raid said:
I read somewhere that the designers of the Prominent were LF camera designers,
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Voigtländer never had had plate folders bigger than 10x15 (then the upper limit of "small format") at any time in the 20th century. As a major LF lens maker they may not have wanted to compete with their customer base - at any rate, they had no LF camera designers they could have lent to the Prominent in their own staff, and I am not aware that they ever bought up a LF camera maker either.

I rather suspect the Prominent came out that odd since Voigtländer, as something like the fourth major maker into the 35mm rangefinder rat race, wanted to top the already over-engineered Zeiss Ikon and Kodak offerings with something even more disgustingly over-engineered - none of them understood that the key to the Leica success was its simplicity.

Sevo
 
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