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

[etrigan63]

Heliar 75mm 2.5 in M-mount. Sweet portrait lens on an M8.
A Bessa digital wouldn't be bad either, hand-cocked like the old RD-1 but with a modern sensor. Leica proved that FF sensor tech can fit in an M-rangefinder.

 

[Frankie]

A 75mm and a 90mm M-mount lens is long overdue.

Other LTM lenses [all released before 2004, M-mount's 50th birthday 😉] have already been re-mounted/styled...maybe something to look forward to in Photokina 2010.

I love to buy a CV 75mm to complete my all CV 25/40/75mm kit.

AND, wouldn't it be nice if a dBessa or a dZI is also announced. I know, I know, Mr.K "does not like digital" and Zeiss is believed not capable...according to the Leica mafia Thought Police.

 

[retro]

M42 (i.e. Bessaflex) lenses, especially moderate tele (85-135mm) or 24,28,35mm wide-angles.

 

[DNG]

25mm f/2 ASPH $1,000. Range
21mm f/2 ASPH $1,000. Range

 

[Yhbv24]

I'd like to see a reiteration of the R2(A/M) with 28/75, 35, 50/90 framelines.

I'd also like to see an M-mount 50 f/2 lens. I'd like f/1.4 as well, but f/2 would be less expensive and smaller.

And lastly, maybe a 25 f/2 and a 21 f/2.8.

And a full-frame digital Bessa for under $3,000 wouldn't hurt either =).

 

[PKR]

I've been thinking about getting a CL. How about a smallish, non electronic, no meter, M type, bullet proof camera. If it had frames for 35 and 50, the shoe could provide attachments for other lenses. The body should allow for a collapsible 50mm.

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[mark-b]

Bessa's own remake of the Leica IIIf.

 

[Olsen]

Stephen,

If a digital Voigtländer is not close, then Voigtländer is no longer in the camera business. If so, this is disappointing. After all, Cosina was the first camera producer to make a digital M-rangefinder camera. Quite an achievement. We are waiting eagerly for an up-date. The camera world is now digital. Only a small fraction of the photographers still shoot film, if they can afford to. Particularly now, when the times are so ugly, few can afford to shoot film anymore. Even if you make a Bessa in 'Desert Storm' colors, or in Hermes design, it's going to be small volume stuff. If sold at all.

A digital Voigländer camera is the only winner for me.

 

[zozio32]

That's been the case for a while no?
I mean, the market is mainly digital for a few years (3/4 maybe, maybe more). I am sure that Cosina has done it's market study, they know how much Bessa R.. they are selling, and I don't see why the number are going to change now. Long live the Tri-X and slides 🙂

 

[efix]

The Nokton 50/1.5 in M-mount and MUCH better built body.

Seconded. The M-mount part at least - don't know about the body of the LTM version as I never handled one.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Bessa's own remake of the Leica IIIf.

Some say it's called Bessa T...

http://cameraquest.com/VC3f.htm

My two T's are so nice and reliable... And they're very, VERY light, even if the whole internal body is metal... And the external arrow meter reading is a dream... A unique camera!

Sold out years ago... I think there's one right now (just a few days ago) at cameraquest for an amazing "old days" price, and it even received CLA... Cool!

Cheers,

Juan

 

[mark-b]

Thanks Juan V 🙂

 

[thegman]

Not sure I see the point in a digital Bessa or ZI. It's not that they would not be good cameras, I'm quite sure they would be. The thing is that the world and his dog make digital cameras, those of us who like film cameras have rather less choice (when buying new). I think it's important to encourage innovation in film cameras, as digital will take care of itself.

Having said that, new Voigtlander products? I'd like to see something a bit different, maybe something like a Contax T? Maybe the smallest medium format camera possible? I just want these new products to be interesting, film based, and make CV as much money as possible.

Like I say, digital will take care of itself, it does not need help from Cosina or Zeiss, but us buyers of film cameras do need them.

 

[Enoyarnam]

An R4a or R4m in Nikon rangefinder S mount. The m mount version is wonderfully useable camera. I would love to use my Nikon lenses with a newer version of this camera. Then my Nikon F would get a run for its money!

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Thanks Juan V 🙂

The T at cameraquest disappeared! Hope you're guilty! 😀

Cheers,

Juan

 

[Olsen]

That's been the case for a while no?
I mean, the market is mainly digital for a few years (3/4 maybe, maybe more). I am sure that Cosina has done it's market study, they know how much Bessa R.. they are selling, and I don't see why the number are going to change now. Long live the Tri-X and slides 🙂

Well. They are conducting a market study right now. Arn't they?

And what would a market study measuring the effect of a 'new' analogue camera be? That there is simply too many hardly used film cameras out there and that a 'new' camera, be it an 'Admiral Yamamoto' rememberence model or a 'Gucci model', it will arrive to a market that is no longer there. People - 'the market', has switched to digital. Long ago.

Get a digital Voigtländer M-bayonette camera out there - now!

 

[stupid leica]

i would love a 21/2 and a 50/1.4 summilux clone (similar to my 35/1.4 Nokton).

 

[jonmanjiro]

A 75mm f1.8 in M-mount .... oh wait, they just released that!

 

[dbarnes]

Bessa body with matrix TTL light meter. The current meter beats the heck out of no meter all, but by modern standards it seems perfunctory.

 

[stupid leica]

wait what?