Vito III

Vito III image by Chris Blank (Image rights)

The Vito III was first produced by Voigtländer in 1950 and is more similar in design to the 35mm Prominent then to earlier Vito models (Vito , Vito II ) The Vito III features a Prominent styled top plate rangefinder coupling, the lens and shutter are mounted on a Vito style folding bellows. The Vito III's lens is a Ultron f/2 50mm with a synchronized Compur-Rapid shutter with 1-1/500 B and X-synchronized. Later models featured a Synchro-Compur shutter 1-1/500 B which was XM synchronized.