Cosina Voigtländer (often abbreviated CV) refers to photographic products manufactured by Cosina under the Voigtländer name since 1999. Cosina leases rights to the Voigtländer name from RINGFOTO GmbH & Co. ALFO Marketing KG in

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. Cosina Voigtländer products have included 35mm film SLR and

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bodies, and lenses for the M39 lens mount (Leica screw mount), M42 lens mount, Leica M mount, and other lens mounts.

Cameras

35 mm Rangefinder

* Bessa L * Bessa R * Bessa T * Bessa R2 * 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

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

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, the VM series for Leica M-mount, the SL and SL II series for several 35 mm

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mounts ( Canon EF-mount,

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, and Pentax K-mount), and the MFT series for the

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mount. Legacy lenses for the M39 lens mount, Nikon S-mount and M42 lens mount have been discontinued. Most of the traditional Voigtländer lens brand names remain in use with Cosina, though the lens designs used by Cosina are generally different from the historical namesakes. However, ''Heliar'' lenses will still generally have slow apertures, ''Noktons'' are for fast apertures, ''APO-Lanthars'' will have above-average correction of chromatic aberrations and use many low-dispersion glass elements, while ''Skopars'' are compact and light lenses.

Nikon Z-mount

Cosina offers the following lenses with

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as of 2023. These lenses offer electronic coupling to the camera for recording EXIF data, focus confirmation and IBIS activation.

Sony E-mount

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

Leica M-mount

File:Voigtlaender Nokton VM 50mm f1,5.jpg, 50mm f/1.5 Nokton File:Voigtlaender Heliar Classic VM 75mm f1,8.jpg, 75mm f/1.8 Heliar Classic File:Voigtlaender Super Wide Heliar 15mm f4,5 Asph III on VM-E Close Focus adapter.jpg, 15mm f/4.5 Super Wide Heliar Asph. III At present (March 2025), there are 32 lenses for the Leica M-mount, 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

Standard Group and have since introduced the following lenses:

RF-mount Lenses

Cosina Voigtländer manufactures manual focus lenses for Canon RF lens mount.

X-Mount Lenses

Cosina Voigtländer manufactures manual focus lenses for Fujifilm X-mount.

Discontinued lenses

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

L and VM series

E series

Micro Four Thirds series

SL II and SL II N series

SL series

Voigtländer SL lenses are manual-focus designs. They were sold in a variety of mounts: Nikon AI-S, Canon FD, Pentax K, M42, Minolta SR,

Contax Contax (stylised as CONTAX in the Yashica/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 Carl Zeis ...

Yashica was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, lenses, and film editing equipment active from 1949 until 2005 when its then-owner, Kyocera, ceased production. It acquired the lens manufacturer Tomioka (Tomioka Optical Co., Ltd). In 2008, the Yashica ...

MM, and Olympus OM. Some lenses were also available in Canon EF- and Minolta A-mount, although without autofocus. They were produced for a short time, and discontinued when Cosina introduced its Carl Zeiss "Z" series lenses.

S SC series

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