Cosina Voigtländer (often abbreviated CV) refers to photographic products manufactured by Cosina under the Voigtländer name since 1999. Cosina leases rights to the Voigtländer name from RINGFOTO GmbH & Co. ALFO Marketing KG in Germany. Cosina Voigtländer products have included 35mm film SLR and rangefinder camera bodies, and lenses for the M39 lens mount (Leica screw mount), M42 lens mount, Leica M mount, and other lens mounts.
Cameras
35 mm Rangefinder
- Bessa L
- Bessa R
- Bessa T
- Bessa R2
- Bessa R2S
- Bessa R2C
- Bessa R2A
- Bessa R3A
- Bessa R2M
- Bessa R3M
- Bessa R4A
- Bessa R4M
Medium format rangefinder
Lenses
Cosina started producing cameras and lenses under the Voigtländer brand in 1999, when it introduced a new M39 mount body and lenses. It has since produced a prodigious variety of these lenses in M39x26, Leica M mount, Nikon S rangefinder mount (some fully usable with Contax RF bodies), and SLR mounts including M42 and Nikon F. Cosina produces hoods and accessory viewfinders for many of the lenses. Note that while the lenses feature familiar Voigtländer names, the optical formulas are all new.
Presently, manual focus Voigtländer lenses are available, or will soon be available in four series: the E-mount series for Sony E-mount, the VM series for Leica M-mount, the SL and SL II series for several 35 mm single-lens reflex camera mounts (Canon EF-mount, Nikon F-mount, and Pentax K-mount), and the MFT series for the Micro Four Thirds mount. Legacy lenses for the M39 lens mount, Nikon S-mount and M42 lens mount have been discontinued.
Most of the traditional Voigtländer lens brand names remain in use with Cosina, though the lens designs used by Cosina are generally different from the historical namesakes. However, Heliar lenses will still generally have slow apertures, Noktons are for fast apertures, APO-Lanthars will have above-average correction of chromatic aberrations and use many low-dispersion glass elements, while Skopars are compact and light lenses.
Nikon Z-mount
Discontinued lenses
Several lenses, which were manufactured in the past, have now been discontinued.[89]
External links
- Cosina Voigtländer (in English)
- Ringphoto Voigtländer (in German)
- La Vida Leica – In-depth reviews of Cosina Voigtländer lenses (M/LTM)
- Review of the 28/1.9 lens by Lutz Konermann
- Voigtlander Rangefinders A brief write-up on Voigtländer rangefinders by street and panoramic photographer Matthew Joseph aka Fotodudenz.
- Voigtländer Gallery Peter Chou's Voigtländer Gallery
References
- Z Mount Lenses Cosina Voigtländer, 13 February 2022, retrieved 2023-07-01^
- Z Mount Lenses Lenses Cosina Voigtländer, retrieved 2024-03-12^
- Super Wide-Heliar Aspherical Cosina Voigtländer, retrieved 2024-03-12^