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

A hiking lens would be great, where we're not chasing speed but compactness, lightness and durability. Either a pancake or a new version of the old Elmar. 39mm filter size would be good. Focal length could be any of 28, 35, 40 or 50.
 
EliasK said:
Not a lens or camera, but a product equally vital:
a top quality film scanner.
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Hear, hear!

Yes, with the future of the Nikon scanners in doubt this is a very serious problem for anyone still shooting film. If we can't get our analog images in to the digital world, we are up the creek without a paddle.

Access to relatively cheap and good quality scanners has been a major factor in allowing film to survive in the digital age.

PS: I also vote for a modern day incarnation of the AUFSU finder with markings for 35 and 50.
 
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I'd think that there'd be a market for film scanners well into the future. There are plenty of old negatives that people will want to scan.
 
Maybe they can buy the scanner plant from Nikon for small money. For the 9000ED they keep in production they don't need a large fabric.
 
Next, i'd love an SLR-style 6x4.5 camera.... I know it'll never happen, but something like the Pentax 67, but much smaller. It could even have a fixed lens.
 
A modern pocket sized Vitessa inspired 35mm folder

for lens: faster 12,15 and 25mm.
zoom or turret viewfinder
cheap non limited release 3.5 heliar!!
 
a collapsible non limited 3.5 heliar, perhaps m-mount, would be nice too. with the original tube, not the one they used in the 2.0.
(damn i miss that lens sometimes)
 
How about a new medium format rangefinder with a line of lenses that also accepts Mamiya 7 glass, with an accesssory digital back built around the 24mp Sony sensor.
 
Easy RF for rookies

Easy RF for rookies

For the future of film and RF shooting, it may be important to offer a small step into it, like the CL/CLA idea. MF option for sure.
Rookies would find it user friendly, and vets would love it, too. Small, solid, fixed or LTM or M-mount--might not matter.
Maybe a plasticky one with fixed lens and/or a metal one with LTM/M. One of those.
 
The world needs scale focus wide lenses optimized for µ4/3.
VC already sells a LM to µ4/3 adapter : how about a fast 12 f/2.8 with a small image circle.
 
A Cosina Xpan-like camera, with its own range of lenses, and with adjustable film masks to allow exposing frames from 24x36mm to wide panoramas. Bring back the 125mm APO Lanthar in F-mount. Used Nikon manual-focus lenses seem to be increasing in popularity, so expand the choices of lenses in F-mount, all with chips.
 
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Perfect would be

A camera with a viewfinder for 50mm as widest, so I could use the whole window for composing with the 40,

A camera that lasts for decades, not one reaching its lifetime and with complicated service and parts,

A camera with metered manual and AE, AND a mechanical shutter for fast and slow speeds when batteries die, like my FE2,

A camera as beautiful and small as a IIIf

Mr.K: Who wouldn't buy that camera?
 
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