NigelG Posted June 20, 2019 Share #21 Posted June 20, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) 20 hours ago, adan said: 350g!? Must be using a lot of aluminium. Their f/1.8 is 420g or so. My MS Optical 73mm f/1.5 is 197g..... I might be interested in this as a somewhat more “robust” 75 - the featherweight MS feels a bit delicate in use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 20, 2019 Posted June 20, 2019 Hi NigelG, Take a look here Voigtländer 75mm f/1.5 Aspherical VM. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
adan Posted July 13, 2019 Share #22 Posted July 13, 2019 Update - Cameraquest (the guy who first imported Voigtlander 20 years ago) is offering pre-orders for the 75mm f/1.5 - $100 deposit or full price of $999.00 https://www.cameraquest.com/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaeger Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share #23 Posted July 15, 2019 (edited) delicious... i can't wait to see samples/review from forum members. Edited July 15, 2019 by jaeger Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oudjunk Posted July 15, 2019 Share #24 Posted July 15, 2019 I just saw the sample picture from DPreview (old topic) that taken with this lens the quality and rendering are good. can't wait for this lens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaeger Posted July 30, 2019 Author Share #25 Posted July 30, 2019 (edited) 7artisans joined the battle (Chinese VS Japanese) with a 75mm f/1.25 added half F stop @ half the price. But I prefer the retro design of voig. and I don't think the half stop makes a big different at 75mm. Anyway, it would be an interesting battle. Edited July 30, 2019 by jaeger Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted August 2, 2019 Share #26 Posted August 2, 2019 Preordered today, and fingers crossed. If it performs as well as it looks, it should be a hit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted August 2, 2019 Share #27 Posted August 2, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) Is a lot tempting for me (there is the silver version !! ) I wonder why they made the distance scale in that position… easier to read, probably but someway strange… anyway, is a fine design… looks like in length is no much more than my Summarit 75 2,5 (but wider, of course) ; do someone know if they provide also a specific hood ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregm61 Posted August 2, 2019 Share #28 Posted August 2, 2019 (edited) Cameraquest show the vented hood is included on their order site. I saw the lens and hood combination on the video linked earlier. It’s a great looking outfit. You can see the hood here.. https://shop.cameraquest.com/voigtlander-leica-mount-lenses/voigtlander-75mm-f1.5-black-preorder-nokton-asph-leica-m/ Edited August 2, 2019 by Gregm61 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdlaing Posted August 3, 2019 Share #29 Posted August 3, 2019 Good old Voigtlander with the thumb screw hood lock. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted August 3, 2019 Share #30 Posted August 3, 2019 10 hours ago, jdlaing said: Good old Voigtlander with the thumb screw hood lock. Ain’t that the truth? I have them on Canon supertelephotos but it seems odd of a lens this size. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6bit Posted August 3, 2019 Share #31 Posted August 3, 2019 13 hours ago, jdlaing said: Good old Voigtlander with the thumb screw hood lock. Yeah. 🙁 Not a fan of that feature. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted August 3, 2019 Share #32 Posted August 3, 2019 One thing that puzzles me is that the few photo examples I've seen from this lens are pretty mundane shots. Not horrible, but nothing exciting. If I were about to release a new lens I'd have galleries of great images promoting my product. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6bit Posted August 4, 2019 Share #33 Posted August 4, 2019 Perplexing to be sure. The biggest stealth release I can remember. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted August 4, 2019 Share #34 Posted August 4, 2019 Cosina/Voigtlander has never done much promoting. They've left it to reviewers, or distributors like CameraQuest, or word-of-mouth. Possibly because the Voigtlander line has mostly been a "hobby" of CEO and Leica fan Kobayashi Hirofumi, and in most of their other lines they have been "behind the scenes" manufacturers of products marketed under other brand-names (their little Bessa RF bodies were adaptations of their bottom-of-the-line film SLR sold variously as: the Nikon FM-10, Olympus OM2000, Canon T60, Konica TC-X, Vivitar V2000, etc.). Not to mention most of the Zeiss ZM lenses and Zeiss-Ikon body, or most of the "camera part" of the Epson R-D1 digital. You don't have or need a big promotion department if most of your products are B2B in a single industry. I say that as someone who got roped into this whole "viewfinder" thing by the original 15mm f/4.5 and Bessa-L twenty years ago, and kept an eye on them ever since. They sit up there in the Japanese Alps (Nakano) and let the world beat a path to their door. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregm61 Posted August 4, 2019 Share #35 Posted August 4, 2019 The images are not really any worse than most sites. Dpreview isn’t exactly a bastion of outstanding subject matter when it comes to camera/lens tests. On the other hand, employ someone like Ming Thein to do your test shots and no one will think they do anything worthy of any lens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreasG Posted August 4, 2019 Share #36 Posted August 4, 2019 vor 3 Stunden schrieb adan: I say that as someone who got roped into this whole "viewfinder" thing by the original 15mm f/4.5 and Bessa-L twenty years ago, and kept an eye on them ever since. They sit up there in the Japanese Alps (Nakano) and let the world beat a path to their door. Somehow OT: That is interesting, actually I bought also probably more than 20 years ago the Bessa with the 15mm lens and the 15mm external viewfinder. I still use this M39 lens with an M-Adapter, the Bessa body never got used so far, I better sell it evantually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexGig0 Posted August 4, 2019 Share #37 Posted August 4, 2019 It has, indeed, long been difficult to find detailed information on Cosina Voigtlander lenses. I first noticed this while searching for information on Nikon F-mount and Canon EF mount versions. I recently took delivery of a 25mm f/4 lens, claimed to be a CV Color Skopar, in the body of the ad, and a Snapshot Skopar in the illustration’s caption, but visually different from images and descriptions of either lens, that I have found on-line. And, by the time a CV lens has earned a reputation for being a really good lens, it may well have been discontinued, as many of them are made in relatively limited-time production runs. I managed to find one nicely-preserved sample of the CV 90/3.5 SL II, for example, at the time I read that one had been discontinued, and have been searching, since, for an equally good one for my wife. I had missed being able to find a CV 125mm macro, before they had all been priced at the wealthy-collector level. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NRKstudio Posted August 8, 2019 Share #38 Posted August 8, 2019 Mines coming August 10. Now we’ll see if my 75 lux will have to hit the road... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
otto.f Posted August 8, 2019 Share #39 Posted August 8, 2019 (edited) Well that would be the day... and it would be a paradox too. If the Voigtlander would be just as good or better than the 75lux, the prices for the Leica would drop considerably. This would mean that selling it will be a loss Edited August 8, 2019 by otto.f Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
helged Posted August 8, 2019 Share #40 Posted August 8, 2019 4 hours ago, NRKstudio said: Mines coming August 10. Now we’ll see if my 75 lux will have to hit the road... Looking forward to see/learn about your findings! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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