Posts Tagged ‘lens’

Cosina Voigtlander announces APO-Lanthar 90mm F3.5 SL-II Close Focus Lens

Cosina Voigtlander introduced today the fourth lens in its SL-II DSLR lens lineup. The CV APO-Lanthar 90mm F3.5 SL-II Close Focus lens brings a short-telephoto/macro lens to their ever growing stable of fine DSLR lenses.

Specifications

Focal length / 90mm
Maximum Aperture / 1:3.5
Minimum Aperture / F22
Lens / 5 groups of 6 elements
Field of View / 27 [...]

CV intros new 28/2 Ultron lens in M-mount

In a press release dated July 17, 2008, Cosina Voigtlander introduced (or should I say, reintroduced) a new lens for the Leica M-mount: the CV Ultron 28 mm F2.

Based off of the now discontinued Ultron 28/1.9 LTM (Leica Thread Mount), the Ultron 28/2 is available only in black, adds a focusing tab that its predecessor [...]

Cosina Voigtlander Ultron 40mm f2 SL II Review

Cosina Voigtlander (CV) is a japanese camera maker that specializes in 35mm film rangefinder cameras. They also make their own lenses and are quite good at it since Cosina is the manufacturing partner of Carl Zeiss, AG. While the lion’s share of lenses they make are for Leica Thread Mount (LTM) and Leica M-mount, they [...]

Zeiss announces a new SLR lens – Zeiss Distagon T* 18mm f3.5

Zeiss 18mm Distagon f3.5 – Side
Originally uploaded by Carlos Echenique
On June25, 2008 without too much fanfare, Carl Zeiss Company announced yet another lens for the Nikon (ZF) and Pentax (ZK) DSLR mounts.
The Distagon T* 3,5/18 is a super-wide lens with 99 degree field of view (on film and FX sensor Nikons like the D3 and [...]