[Klaus]

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/

[thxbb12]

Very nice, however MF only as always.
Is there hope that one day Voigtlander will release AF lenses?

[Klaus]

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.

[stoppingdown]

I wonder whether adding a chip at least for EXIF and aperture reading adds more to cost/complexity...

[Klaus]

Most of their new lenses support EXIF/auto-aperture.

[Rover]

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. :-)

[Klaus]

From the CP+ show

https://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1481023.html

[davidmanze]

 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 ............

[Klaus]

AF is pretty much useless for macro and counterproductive with ultra-wides. And then there's video ...