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new Voigtlander lenses for RF-, X- and F-mount
#1
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/
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#2
Very nice, however MF only as always.
Is there hope that one day Voigtlander will release AF lenses?
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#3
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.
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#4
I wonder whether adding a chip at least for EXIF and aperture reading adds more to cost/complexity...
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Plus some legacy Nikkor lenses.
#5
Most of their new lenses support EXIF/auto-aperture.
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#6
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. :-)
#7
From the CP+ show

https://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1481023.html
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(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 ............ Smile
#9
AF is pretty much useless for macro and counterproductive with ultra-wides. And then there's video ...
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