05-15-2011, 11:32 PM
[quote name='Albert' timestamp='1305371933' post='8318']
Well...so if the conjecture is true, we'd never expect to see any new phenomenal lens from Voigtlander to live up with its reputation in the old days.That's just not fair... <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':angry:' /> Maybe Cosina should really focus only on Zeiss OEM and sell Voigtlander to some more ambitious party...
The new DFA100/2.8 WR Macro is indeed a lovely creature. In my opinion it is the most "beautiful" 100 Macro currently in the market. Maybe I'll end up with it any way. But then I'll still need another mid-tele for portraiture...Uhhhh, my girl is right, I always need one more lens to go with <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Well, I'm more angry that Cosina discontinued all lenses in the Pentax K-mount. My guess is that they shared the actual K-mount parts with both the Voigtlaender and Zeiss lenses. Voigtlaender discontinued the K-mount immediately after Zeiss did. Without Zeiss to share the production costs, it wouldn't make sense to continue alone.
The Nokton 58/1.4 is classic portait focal length. 58mm x 1.53 crop-factor = 89mm on 135 format film.
One sneaky thing about Nokton 58mm is the extra 8mm makes the DOF at f/1.4 slightly thinner than typical 50mm lens. It actually has the DOF similar to a 50mm f/1.2 lens. Heh, heh, since they couldn't offer Voigtlaender f/1.2 lens in this range (google cosina 55/1.2) without stepping on Zeiss' toes, they got their design goal another way.
Well...so if the conjecture is true, we'd never expect to see any new phenomenal lens from Voigtlander to live up with its reputation in the old days.That's just not fair... <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':angry:' /> Maybe Cosina should really focus only on Zeiss OEM and sell Voigtlander to some more ambitious party...
The new DFA100/2.8 WR Macro is indeed a lovely creature. In my opinion it is the most "beautiful" 100 Macro currently in the market. Maybe I'll end up with it any way. But then I'll still need another mid-tele for portraiture...Uhhhh, my girl is right, I always need one more lens to go with <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> .[/quote]
Well, I'm more angry that Cosina discontinued all lenses in the Pentax K-mount. My guess is that they shared the actual K-mount parts with both the Voigtlaender and Zeiss lenses. Voigtlaender discontinued the K-mount immediately after Zeiss did. Without Zeiss to share the production costs, it wouldn't make sense to continue alone.
The Nokton 58/1.4 is classic portait focal length. 58mm x 1.53 crop-factor = 89mm on 135 format film.
One sneaky thing about Nokton 58mm is the extra 8mm makes the DOF at f/1.4 slightly thinner than typical 50mm lens. It actually has the DOF similar to a 50mm f/1.2 lens. Heh, heh, since they couldn't offer Voigtlaender f/1.2 lens in this range (google cosina 55/1.2) without stepping on Zeiss' toes, they got their design goal another way.