What new Voigtlander RF or SLR product would you like to see?

[grapejohnson]

i'd love to see a faster 90mm lens, like f/2

[thegman]

Would the auxiliary range finder here be the sort of thing you're looking for:

http://www.fotomancamera.com/Specials.asp

Cheers

Garry

Originally Posted by jkrumsick

Voigtlander will never do this but a guy can dream right?

I have a Hassey SWC and CV made a great viewfinder for the 21mm equivalent lens. Well, my request is that they make a viewfinder that is a stand alone rangefinder. They would have to fix a gear to the focus ring on the lens and have that gear connect to the viewfinder. Then I could use something besides zone focusing on my SWC!! I would be in heaven! Voigtlander is the only company making 21mm viewfinders (in the R4 series) so only they could do this. Hey a guy can dream right?? Or maybe make one myself if wanted to destroy my R4M...

Next on the list (more reasonable). More models in the Bessa Lineup but with fewer framelines. I love my R4M because I love wide angle and my 21mm Zeiss is great on it. But I don't think I will be putting a 35mm lens on it... instead I will just get another body (R2 or R2M) and put a 35mm on it. So if they could make a body with just 35mm framelines and make it cheaper then I would do that. Have one body for each focal length (or the most popular) - 21mm, 35mm, 50mm and 90mm. If that would make it cheaper to produce (probable) then I would prefer to buy that.

Also make some stuff in different colors... chrome, olive, grey, white.

Use leather on some of your bodies! Sell some editions where leather is an option instead of rubber.

Lastly - Something I don't care for you to make is a digital. Keep on with film. When the huge electromagnetic pulse from the sky comes down and renders all those digital cameras useless I will be happily snapping away with my R4M.

[thegman]

I don't care if they do digital either, at the moment, if you want an M mount digital, there is Sony NEX 7, GXR, used M8/M8.2/M9, m43, R-D1. If Cosina feel that there is too much competition, then who could blame them. They could do full frame, but then how far away would it be priced from a used M9 once the M10 appears?

Cosina have been in business quite while, they've managed that by making the right decisions for them, and *not* making the wrong decisions. They're not a huge business like Microsoft who can afford to make mistake after mistake.

[RomanV]

Originally Posted by Godfrey

My desires are somewhat obvious but easy to achieve:

- Re-issue the Color-Skopar 28mm f/3.5 with M-bayonet mount.
- Re-issue the Color-Skopar 50mm f/2.5 with M-bayonet mount.
- Re-issue the Heliar 75mm f/2.5 with M-bayonet mount
- Re-issue the Nokton 50mm f/1.5 ASPH with M-bayonet mount

Don't change the optics at all ... I love the rendering qualities, size and weight of these lenses just as they are. To me it's a darn shame that they've discontinued them. Having to buy an adapter increases the cost and adds another thing to juggle.

Beyond that, incorporate Leica M six-bit coding into the current lens line.

Another thought: bring the Micro-FourThirds ultra speed 17.5mm f/0.95 out in M-bayonet mount for use with NEX+adapter and Ricoh GXR M-mount, presuming that it has enough coverage for APS-C format. It would be an interesting specialist lens to use on Leica M8 and M9 even if it didn't cover the entire format.

Completely agree with it!

[Michalm]

New 35 f2 CV lens and new Bessa a with 28 35 50 frame lines.

[gavinlg]

I asked for a 50mm f1.1 and a canon eos mount 28mm pancake and both have come to fruition. Cosina is definitely watching.

[Kent]

A really affordable (like €300,-) and still good 2.0/50 (non collapsible).

[bwcolor]

New Zeiss high resolution lenses announced at Photokina. I sure hope that they are made by CV and not manufactured in Germany.

[buzzardkid]

Been a while since the last post on this thread, but since it's Christmas and as a result there's a lot of requests being put in with a friendly and wise elderly man anyway, here's mine.

Any chance on another Limited-Edition run of some lenses in LTM / M39 mount?

I'd love a fast 35, maybe the 1.4/35mm in LTM...


Maybe even a very limited edition of that lens in black paint and nickel?

[haempe]

I'm the only one who feels a urgent need for a 28/1,4 in M-mount?
Seems to be really a gap in the market.




(A Leica one wouldn't help - unaffordable...)

[jsrockit]

A 35mm f/1.4 lens that doesn't shift?

[Lss]

Originally Posted by jsrockit

A 35mm f/1.4 lens that doesn't shift?

They already make one (well, two). It doesn't have tilt either.

[steveclem]

An internally updated sensor R-D1 would be just fine by me. Meanwhile I'm carrying on with my originals. Leave the dials and analogue control please.
Thanks Epson.

[zuiko85]

The "gee wiz" f .95 optics (and other ultra speed lenses) are fine to demonstrate CV technical prowess.

But please, how about a range of compact, moderate aperture, smaller than a coke can, less expensive than a used car, light enough to toss in a jacket pocket, "lenses for the rest of us, not just the rich guys"

They should all be;

LTM with a M adapter included, this way they will fit the widest range of cameras.

Come with a compact aux viewfinder. These should be inexpensive plastic units.

Have a standard filter size.

The lens hood should be straight sided with the front diameter and thread the same as the lens, then you can use the same lens cap on the front of the hood if desired. The hood should be included.

I would envision a five unit "basic RF lens lineup"

21mm f5.6

28mm f4

35mm f2.8

50mm f2

90mm f4

While were on the subject; a basic M mount RF body, no built in meter, user selectable framlines for the classic 35-50-90 with a .7 eyepiece with adjustable diopter from -3 to +1.

Price in current USD; $400 each for the lenses, $500 for the body.

Thus a complete set would run $2500 new. This is only $1000 more than a clean and functioning M6 TTl body only on the used market.