New Voigtlander Micro Four Thirds lens announced “The 17.5mm 0.95 Nokton MFT”

Wow nothing stopping the folks at Cosina who have just released this new MFT mount lens. Due in May approx price $1095. For full specs and/or  to preorder go to our  website now.

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New SLR lens announced from Voigtlander.

Today Cosina Company announced a new 75mm 1.8 SLR II lens. This lens will give many portrait photographers an alternative to the big brands own fast 85mm lenses. I imagine as it is the classic Heliar design its performance will be similar to the recently released M mount 75mm. Scheduled to be produced in both [...]

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Voigtlander 75mm 1.8 M lens in stock and selling fast.

Well the 75mm 1.8 lenses arrived and went this week! We only have a few left out of our intial pre order with Cosina. We have been packing like crazy. Photographer and Reviewer P.Lynn Miller already has his and his full review will be posted here in the next days. If you want one from [...]

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Cosina joins Micro Four Thirds group

Seems Cosina are really becoming the movers and shakers to watch with this press release made on Friday. Announced jointly by Olympus Imaging Corporation (President Masaharu Okubo) and Panasonic Corporation in 2008, the Micro Four Thirds System standard has rapidly grown in popularity. Now, support for the standard is expanding with the decision of COSINA [...]

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New Micro Four thirds lens range from Voigtlander. Starting with the 25mm 0.95 Nokton

There is no stopping the team at Cosina. They have now turned their hand to producing a whole new range of lenses for Micro Four Thirds cameras under the Voigtlander brand. These lenses are all manual focus with full electronic interfacing and metering, very fast and do not need an adapter of any type! Looks [...]

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P.Lynn Miller revists the Nokton 1.1 50mm Lens 1 year later…

And discovers it takes time to form a long term relationship… This is a story about a man, a lens, and photography that we can all learn something from. P.Lynn Miller writes: The announcement of the Voigtländer Nokton 50mm f1.1 was one the most exciting moments in my photographic memory. I had been actively pursuing [...]

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New Voigtlander 75mm 1.8 M lens. The Heliar Classic.

Just announced from the factory! The team at Cosina have released a completely new fast 75mm M mount lens. The Heliar Classic looks like it will be a little winner. especially for those who own M8 cameras. Available mid Sept 2010 expected price of $795.00 AUD Specifications: Lens construction: 3 groups of 6 elements Aperture [...]

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Images with the 58mm 1.4 Nokton and a Nikon D700.

Mainline customer and photographer Richard Kitts purchased one of the Voigtlander 58mm 1.4 SL II lenses for his Nikon D700. He is absolutely chuffed with the lens and the images it produces.  Enjoy these few samples Richard emailed me from Jakarta. The Koran Reader.   ( R.Kitts collection 2010) Jasmin. ( R.Kitts collection 2010) Street [...]

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New 90mm 3.5 Apo Lanthar SL II lenses have arrived!

Yesterday we received our first delivery of these superb close focus and portrait lenses. Available in both EOS and Nikon mount they are priced at a very reasonable $645.00 and $595.00. Price includes the hood and special close up filter which allows you to get to 32 cm. They are not called true Macro lenses [...]

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Old 1869 Voigtlander lens was the worlds first fast lens!

Friend and fellow blogger Uncle Gordy (aka Gordon Coale) just loves hunting down interesting old stuff, one day it’s old typewriters then the next old cameras or lenses. Must have something to do with living on an island! Though this time I think he has found himself some buried treasure! The early Petzvals were shot [...]

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Voigtlander SL II lenses now available in Canon EOS mount.

We have just had news that the factory will be producing this range of prime SLR lenses in the long awaited EOS mount. All three current models the 20mm 3.5 , 40mm 2.0 and 58mm 1.4 have proved extremely popular but up until now Canon EOS owners have been left out. Not anymore! These are [...]

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New Voigtlander lenses from Cosina. 50th anniversary editions

Cosina is set to release 2 new lenses (well more of a re release of a couple of oldies) to celebrate their 50th year of business. These special editions are to be produced in a special Nickel plated finish and boxed with a matching M adapter with the same finish. Both of these lenses are [...]

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More Nokton 50mm 1.1 images

Here are some more images from around Crows Nest I took on the way home with the Nokton on the M8 (now with an IR filter) and stopped down a couple of stops. Enjoy them… as I sure am loving this lens! This new cafe just opened with nice red chairs.. well they caught my [...]

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Nokton 1.1 50mm my first take on this fast lens.

I didn’t spend as much time with the Nokton 1.1 as I wished I could have. But here are some first shots taken on the M8 no IR filter and just on fine jpeg. The lens feels good to shoot with and mechanically is superb. Like anything well made the lens becomes a part of [...]

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They have arrived! The most sought after Voigtlander M lens ever! The Nokton 50mm 1.1

Well we finally have received our first delivery of the Nokton 50mm 1.1 lenses! This has been ( going by the number of pre-orders) the most sought after Cosina-Voigtlander made product ever. So we are going to be busy packing and shipping for the next day or so. But for your viewing pleasure here are [...]

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New 50mm f1.1 Nokton M mount from Voigtlander!

Hot gossip from the factory in Japan!! Our inside source has told us that this new 50mm f1.1 Nokton lenses performance is up there with the big L brand or in fact betters it. Only time will tell on that one, but for the time being be very, very excited! What will they bring out [...]

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New Voigtlander 15mm 4.5 M mount lens. First take. Very nice!

Cosina certainly are not the type of company to sit back and watch the world pass them by. Every new product they bring out is a winner and here is another one. We have just received our first delivery of the new 15mm M mount lens. Which while the same optically ( razor sharp and [...]

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How to clean a lens or filter. The safe and stress free way!

These days there is just too much information out there on the net… some of it good and some bad. I did a search before writing this post on lens cleaning and came up with all kinds of stuff. So I contacted our friends at Schneider optics for their take and Hans our Zeiss trained [...]

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Is this a cheaper way to a digital body for your M lenses?

The Panasonic GI has finally started arriving to our distant shores and looks like it is going to be another winner for them. But what has got my interest is the new Micro four thirds mount which with an adapter from Novoflex is able to take almost any Leica or Voigtlander M mount lens. If [...]

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More on the 28mm Ultron f2 M lens P.Lynn Millers review

Photographer and bicycle wheel building master P.Lynn Miller has spent some time with his new toy the Voigtlander 28mm Ultron and has given permission to repost some of his images and comments here on the Mainline blog. After spending a few days with the Ultron 28mm f2.0, I am even more impressed with this lens. [...]

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