Cosina Voigtländer

Cosina leased the rights to the Voigtländer name, which it has used since 1999. Its new Voigtländer line features high quality and good value, and has been well received.

Ringfoto in Germany also produces some budget-priced items under the Voigtländer name, unrelated to Cosina.

Cameras

35mm Rangefinder

• Bessa L
• Bessa R
• Bessa T
• Bessa R2
• Bessa R2S
• Bessa R2C
• Bessa R2A
• Bessa R3A
• Bessa R2M
• Bessa R3M

35mm SLR

• Bessaflex TM

Lenses

Cosina first started producing cameras and lenses under the Voigtländer brand in 1999, when it introduced a screw mount body and lenses. It has since produced a rather prodigious variety of these lenses in M39x26 / Leica screw mount, M mount, Nikon RF mount (some fully usable with Contax RF bodies, and several SLR mounts (particularly M42 and Nikon F). It also produces larger hoods for many of the lenses and accessory viewfinders. Note that while the lenses feature familiar Voigtländer names the optical formulae are all new with the exception of the limited-edition collapsible Heliar.

LTM rangefinder lenses

not rangefinder coupled

• 12mm f/5.6 aspherical Ultra-Wide Heliar with included metal viewfinder and Armalite hood, black or chrome
• 15mm f/4.5 aspherical Super-Wide Heliar with integrated partial hood (no filter thread) and included plastic viewfinder, black or chrome
• 25mm f/4 Snapshot Skopar with included plastic viewfinder and hood, black or chrome

rangefinder coupled

• 21mm f/4 Color Skopar with included plastic viewfinder and hood, black or chrome
• 28mm f/1.9 aspherical Ultron with Armalite hood, black or chrome
• 28mm f/3.5 Color Skopar with hood, black or chrome
• 35mm f/1.7 aspherical Ultron with hood, black or chrome
• 35mm f/2.5 Color Skopar with a single optical design but two barrel versions: "C" (with hood, black or chrome), and "P" (black only)
• 50mm f/1.5 aspherical Nokton with hood, black or chrome
• 50mm f/2.5 Color Skopar with hood, black or chrome
• 50mm f/3.5 collapsible Heliar with hood, chrome only
• 75mm f/2.5 Color Heliar with hood, black or chrome
• 90mm f/3.5 APO Lanthar with hood, black or chrome

M-mount rangefinder lenses

All of these are rangefinder coupled.

• 35mm f/2.5 Color Skopar PII
• 35mm f1.2 Nokton
• 40mm f/1.4 Nokton (in two versions: single-coated and multicoated)
• 50mm f/2 collapsible Heliar Classic (only available with a Bessa R2M or R3M)

Nikon S–mount rangefinder lenses

All of these are rangefinder coupled, and all were available in a combination of black and silver.

The wider lenses were named "SC" and marketed as being suitable for the old Contax mount as well as the Nikon S mount; the longer ones, named "S", were not. (In practice, the longer lenses are also usable with a Contax if stopped down or used at longer distances.)

SC lenses

• 21mm f/4 SC-Skopar
• 25mm f/4 SC-Skopar (rangefinder coupled, unlike the screwmount equivalent)
• 28mm f/3.5 SC-Skopar
• 35mm f/2.5 SC-Skopar

S lenses

• 50mm f/3.5 S-Heliar (only available as a set with a Bessa R2S with special paint)
• 50mm f/2.5 S-Skopar
• 50mm f/1.5 S-Nokton
• 85mm f/3.5 S-APO Lanthar

Lenses for 35mm SLR

These are all manual-focus lenses, with retro styling.

• Ultron SL 40mm f/2
• Color-Heliar SL 75mm f/2.5
• APO-Lanthar SL 90mm f/3.5
• Macro APO-Lanthar SL 125mm f/2.5
• APO-Lanthar SL 180mm f/4

Links

• An unofficial Voigtländer FAQ
• Cosina Voigtländer (in Japanese)
• Ringphoto Voigtländer (in German)