Cosina Voigtländer refers to photographic products manufactured by

Cosina is a manufacturer of high-end optical glass, optical precision equipment, cameras, video and electronic related equipment, based in Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. History Cosina is the successor to Nikō (or "Nikoh"), a company set up as ...

under the

Voigtländer Voigtländer () was a significant long-established company within the optics and photographic industry, headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, and today continues as a trademark for a range of photographic products. History Voigtländer was f ...

name since 1999. Cosina leases rights to the Voigtländer name from RINGFOTO GmbH & Co. ALFO Marketing KG in

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...

. Cosina Voigtländer products have included 35mm film SLR and

rangefinder camera A rangefinder camera is a camera fitted with a rangefinder, typically a split-image rangefinder: a range-finding focusing mechanism allowing the photographer to measure the subject distance and take photographs that are in sharp focus. Most va ...

bodies, and lenses for the M39 lens mount (Leica screw mount),

M42 lens mount The M42 lens mount is a screw thread mounting standard for attaching lenses to 35 mm cameras, primarily single-lens reflex models. It is more accurately known as the M42 × 1 mm standard, which means that it is a metric screw thread of ...

Leica M mount The Leica M mount is a camera lens mount introduced in 1954 with the Leica M3, and a range of lenses. It has been used on all the Leica M-series cameras and certain accessories (e.g. Visoflex reflex viewing attachment) up to the current film L ...

, and other lens mounts.

Cameras

35 mm Rangefinder

* Bessa L * Bessa R * Bessa T *

Bessa R2 The Bessa family of cameras was manufactured in Japan by Cosina as a revival of the Voigtländer brand name. All the Cosina Voigtländer Bessa models have a double focal-plane shutter with two sets of curtains to prevent damage by the sun. Shutte ...

* Bessa R2S * Bessa R2C * Bessa R2A * Bessa R3A * Bessa R2M * Bessa R3M * Bessa R4A * Bessa R4M

Medium format rangefinder

* Bessa III

35 mm SLR

* Bessaflex TM * VSL 43

Lenses

Cosina started producing cameras and lenses under the Voigtländer brand in 1999, when it introduced a new M39 mount body and lenses. It has since produced a prodigious variety of these lenses in M39x26, Leica M mount, Nikon S rangefinder mount (some fully usable with Contax RF bodies), and SLR mounts including M42 and

Nikon F The Nikon F camera, introduced in April 1959, was Nikon's first SLR camera. It was one of the most advanced cameras of its day. Although many of the concepts had already been introduced elsewhere, it was revolutionary in that it was the first ...

. Cosina produces hoods and accessory viewfinders for many of the lenses. Note that while the lenses feature familiar Voigtländer names, the optical formulas are all new. Presently,

manual focus In the field of photography, a manual focus camera is one in which the user has to adjust the focus of the lens by hand. Before the advent of autofocus, all cameras had manually adjusted focusing; thus, the term is a retronym. The focus itself ...

Voigtländer lenses are available, or will soon be available in four series: the E-mount series for

Sony E-mount The E-mount is a lens mount designed by Sony for their NEX ("New E-mount eXperience") and ILCE series of camcorders and mirrorless cameras. The E-mount supplements Sony's α mount, allowing the company to develop more compact imaging devices whi ...

, the VM series for

Leica M-mount The Leica M mount is a camera lens mount introduced in 1954 with the Leica M3, and a range of lenses. It has been used on all the Leica M-series cameras and certain accessories (e.g. Visoflex reflex viewing attachment) up to the current film L ...

, the SL and SL II series for several 35 mm

single-lens reflex camera A single-lens reflex camera (SLR) is a camera that typically uses a mirror and prism system (hence "reflex" from the mirror's reflection) that permits the photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will be captured. With twin l ...

mounts (

Canon EF-mount The EF lens mount is the standard lens mount on the Canon EOS family of SLR film and digital cameras. EF stands for "Electro-Focus": automatic focusing on EF lenses is handled by a dedicated electric motor built into the lens. Mechanically, it i ...

Nikon F-mount The Nikon F-mount is a type of interchangeable lens mount developed by Nikon for its 35mm format single-lens reflex cameras. The F-mount was first introduced on the Nikon F camera in 1959, and features a three-lug bayonet mount with a 44mm thro ...

, and

Pentax K-mount The Pentax K-mount, sometimes referred to as the "PK-mount", is a bayonet lens mount standard for mounting interchangeable photographic lenses to 35 mm single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras. It was created by Pentax in 1975, and has since be ...

), and the MFT series for the Micro Four Thirds mount. Legacy lenses for the M39 lens mount,

Nikon S-mount The Nikon S-mount is a type of interchangeable lens mount used by a series of Nikon 35mm rangefinder cameras ( Nikon I, Nikon M, Nikon S, Nikon S2, Nikon SP, Nikon S3, Nikon S4). The lenses were sold under the name Nikkor. The mount was a cop ...

and

have been discontinued.

Sony E-mount

Since October 2015, numerous Voigtländer lenses have been released for full frame

Leica M-mount

Voigtlaender Heliar Classic VM 75mm f1,8

At present (March 2018), there are 16 lenses for the

, which can all be combined with rangefinder except the 10 mm lens.

35 mm SLR lenses (SL II series)

Voigtländer SL II lenses are CPU-enabled manual-focus designs available in Nikon AI-P (AI-S with Program), Pentax K-A and Canon EF mounts. The Nikon term for such a design is AI-P, although these lenses are not designated as such. The CPU of SL lenses enables full compatibility (except for autofocus) with the full range of AF Nikon SLR cameras. The Nikon AI-P versions enable full compatibility (except for autofocus) with all Nikon AF SLRs, similar to the AI-P manual-focus lenses Nikon has produced in the past. All metering patterns in 2-D mode, all program modes, and viewfinder focus indicators are available.

Micro Four Thirds

On August 26, 2010, Cosina joined the Micro Four Thirds Standard Group and have since introduced the following lenses:

Discontinued lenses

Several lenses, which were manufactured in the past, have now been discontinued.

L and VM series

* Super-wide Heliar 15 mm F4.5 Aspherical Black/Silver * Color-Skopar 21 mm F4 Black/Silver * Ultra-WIDE Heliar 12 mm F5.6 Aspherical Black/Silver * Snapshot-Skopar 25 mm F4 Black/Silver * Color-Skopar 28 mm F3.5 Black/Silver * Ultron 28 mm F1.9 Aspherical Black/Silver * Color-Skopar 35 mm F2.5 P TYPE * Color-Skopar 35 mm F2.5 C TYPE Black/Silver * Ultron 35 mm F1.7 Aspherical Black/Silver * Color Skopar 50 mm F2.5 Black/Silver * Nokton 50 mm F1.5 Aspherical Black/Silver * Color Heliar 75 mm F2.5 Black/Silver * APO-Lanthar 90 mm F3.5 Black/Silver * Nokton 35 mm F1.2 Aspherical

SL II series

* Color-Skopar 20 mm F3.5 SL II Aspherical * Color-Skopar 28 mm F2.8 SL II Aspherical * Ultron 40 mm F2 SL II Aspherical * Nokton 58 mm F1.4 SL II * APO-Lanthar 90 mm F3.5 SL II

SL series

Voigtlaender APO Lanthar 90mm f3,5 SL M42

Voigtländer SL lenses are manual-focus designs. They were sold in a variety of mounts: Nikon AI-S,

Canon FD The Canon FD lens mount is a physical standard for connecting a photographic lens to a 35mm single-lens reflex camera body. The standard was developed by Canon of Japan and was introduced in March 1971 with the Canon F-1 camera. It served as th ...

, Pentax K, M42, Minolta SR,

Contax Contax (stylised as CONTAX in the Kyocera era) began as a German camera model in the Zeiss Ikon line in 1932, and later became a brand name. The early cameras were among the finest in the world, typically featuring high quality Zeiss interchan ...

Yashica Yashica was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, originally active from 1949 until 2005 when its then-owner, Kyocera, ceased production. In 2008, the Yashica name reappeared on cameras produced by the Hong Kong-based MF Jebsen Group. In 2015, t ...

MM, and Olympus OM. Some lenses were also available in Canon EF- and

Minolta A-mount was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta Co., Ltd., which is also known simply as Minolta, was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as . It made the first integrated autofoc ...

, although without autofocus. They were produced for a short time, and discontinued when Cosina introduced its Carl Zeiss "Z" series lenses. * Ultra-wide Heliar 12 mm F5.6 Aspherical SL * Super-wide Heliar 15 mm F5.6 Aspherical SL * Ultron 40 mm F2 Aspherical SL * Color-Heliar 75 mm F2.5 SL * APO-Lanthar 90 mm F3.5 SL Close Focus * Macro APO-Lanthar 125 mm F2.5 SL * APO-Lanthar 180 mm F4 SL Close Focus

S SC series

* SC Skopar 21 mm F4 * SC Skopar 25 mm F4 * SC Skopar 28 mm F3.5 * SC Skopar 35 mm F2.5 * S Skopar 50 mm F2.5 * S Nokton 50 mm F1.5 Aspherical * S APO-Lanthar 85 mm F3.5

References

External links

Cosina Voigtländer
(in English)

(in German)
La Vida Leica
– In-depth reviews of Cosina Voigtländer lenses (M/LTM)
Review of the 28/1.9 lens
by Lutz Konermann
Voigtlander Rangefinders
A brief write-up on Voigtländer rangefinders by street and panoramic photographer Matthew Joseph aka Fotodudenz.
Voigtländer Gallery
Peter Chou's Voigtländer Gallery {{DEFAULTSORT:Cosina Voigtlander Voigtlander Japanese brands Cosina cameras Cosina rangefinder cameras Cosina lenses