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new Voigtlander lenses for RF-, X- and F-mount - Klaus - 02-21-2023
NOKTON 55mm F1.2 SLIIS F-mount
ULTRON 27mm F2 X-mount
NOKTON 35mm F0.9 Aspherical X-mount
NOKTON 50mm F1 Aspherical RF-mount
https://www.cosina.co.jp/news/cp2023-reference-exhibit/
RE: new Voigtlander lenses for RF-, X- and F-mount - thxbb12 - 02-21-2023
Very nice, however MF only as always.
Is there hope that one day Voigtlander will release AF lenses?
RE: new Voigtlander lenses for RF-, X- and F-mount - Klaus - 02-21-2023
I don't think so. MF is their thing. In theory, MF also relaxes some design constraints - namely, you don't need to care about the weight of the focus group.
RE: new Voigtlander lenses for RF-, X- and F-mount - stoppingdown - 02-22-2023
I wonder whether adding a chip at least for EXIF and aperture reading adds more to cost/complexity...
RE: new Voigtlander lenses for RF-, X- and F-mount - Klaus - 02-22-2023
Most of their new lenses support EXIF/auto-aperture.
RE: new Voigtlander lenses for RF-, X- and F-mount - Rover - 02-23-2023
Maybe they'll switch to AF one day - after all, Cosina has been making AF lenses at some point, right? I can't imagine them voluntarily pigeonholing themselves into that narrow niche forever (for financial, not conceptual reasons) if they really have the wherewithal to break out of it. See the Samyang case: they were only making stone age lenses for a while and seemed stuck in that rut, and then rapidly switched to AF - to the point that nobody even really remembers them being a stone age manufacturer now, and all the rage is in their E mount lenses. :-)
RE: new Voigtlander lenses for RF-, X- and F-mount - Klaus - 02-24-2023
From the CP+ show
https://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1481023.html
RE: new Voigtlander lenses for RF-, X- and F-mount - davidmanze - 02-25-2023
(02-23-2023, 09:22 AM)Rover Wrote: and then rapidly switched to AF - to the point that nobody even really remembers them being a stone age manufacturer now, and all the rage is in their E mount lenses. :-)
Stone age people such as me remember ............
RE: new Voigtlander lenses for RF-, X- and F-mount - Klaus - 02-25-2023
AF is pretty much useless for macro and counterproductive with ultra-wides. And then there's video ...