What new Voigtlander RF or SLR product would you like to see?

I don't know if Cosina is still watching this thread, and I don't know if any of these things have already been mentioned, but, to be honest, I am a bit in my cups, so to speak, at the moment, so I shall air my thoughts anyway.

I noticed that a couple of people have mentioned the short EBL. If Cosina is going to keep the short EBL, why not make a smaller body for it, something the size of a Leica CL or smaller, in either m or LTM mounts? Since CV likes to brag on having the fastest/smallest/widest etc, why not produce the smallest M mount body ever?

Also, I would love to see an extraordinarily tiny 35 or 50mm lens, even if it is slow. By extraordinarily tiny, I mean a lens that only sticks out from the body 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch. I don't care if it vignettes a bit. I don't care if it has to be a large diameter to compensate. I would just love to have a non-collapsible lens that I can keep on a camera under a shirt or jacket that doesn't give much in the way of 'lens bulge.' Alternately, I would love to see a collapsible lens that actually makes the fact that it is collapsible useful. Voigtlander's current collapsible 50 isn't much smaller than a 35 or 40 1.4, or a 50 3.5 color skopar. Surely there has been enough advancement in optics in the last 70 years to produce a faster or smaller version of the collapsible elmar, or the very limited edition collapsible voigtlander lens that was available a few years back.
 
Making a shorter 50 would mean a telephoto design. Trying to get the angular coverage is probably feasable, but at what cost in sharpness, eveness of illumination across the frame, or speed? Go with a proven 35 or 40mm design.
 
An Ultrawide Bessa Body
With built in wide viewfinder for 12, 15 and 18mm lens.
Would love if the viewfinder would show a corrected image instead the current viewfinders that bends the image as a bubble.
In case this last option is not possible, a curved grid built in the viewfinder would be of great help, to figure out the composition.
It should contain a bubble level inside the viewfinder.
Thats it!
thanks

Ernesto
 
An angle viewfinder attachment for the new 15-35 finder!
To allow for waist level shots, discrete shots on the street, for those places my r-d1s will go, but my body won't....

and again I plead, double shoe accessories!
 
A cheap and easy change for Cosina:

Offering some of the same RFs in half format. Let me explain why.

a) The only adjustable half format cameras are the old Pen Olympus system

b) For slow iso color or BW, half format can deliver the same image quality as many digis, but reduce the costs of film for the user by half.

c) The transformation of any Voightlander model to half format is a piece of cake to do.

Adding to that the old technology of having in the same camera half and full frame, it will make the product even more attractive.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
1. A GREAT 50 1.2/1.4 to start.
2. A Voigtlander Mdrive.
3. A fixed lens (20/35) point & shoot with manual overide. Metal & maybe even Auoto
focus. The Konica Hexa AF as a start but sized like the Yashica GX/CC.
Name A Voigtlander Bessa A1/2
 
I'll second that fast compact suggestion. A 2000's version of one of the legendary RF compacts of the 70's with the following features:

- Metering cell somewhere in the lens so it goes behind the filter, if any, like canonet
- ISO speeds 25-3200
- Uses current batteries of course!
- A 35mm lens, f/1.8 or even faster if doesn't make it too large
- Quiet leaf shutter
- Manual exposure as well as aperture priority auto
- Flash hot shoe
- Reasonable rangefinder; if can't be as accurate as Bessa R2A at least make it as easy to use
- Size something like the Canonet QL17 but lighter (this one should be doable! The Bessa R2A+35/1.4 weighs the same as a Canonet QL17.9

Most of these features were already in one or more older compacts but none has all of these at the same time...
 
Still waiting for a 50/2.8 collapsible Tessar design. Screwmount or C mount.

😉

William
 
Don't need to be a Heliar/ classical design for me, but a high-contrast, sharp, best color-corrected (apochromatic) 50mm, slow speed (f/2.8-3.5) but with no need to stop-down for performance. Fully collapsible and screwmount for smallest size (hiking lens).
So a modern issue of the "Barnack" Elmar.
Or in other words, a lens performing like the 50/1.4 ASPH.-Summilux just 2-2,5 stops slower. Piece of cake, hm?
 
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