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Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

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Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO Main Specs:

Aperture range: f/2 to f/16
11 Elements, 9 groups
(2) double sided aspherical and (5) anomalous partial dispersion elements
325 grams
Diameter x Length: 62.6mm x 67.3mm (6mm longer than the CV 50/2 APO)
12-aperture mechanism (round at f/2.8, f/5.6 and f/16)
MFD: 0.35m
Maximum magnification: 0.15x
Angle of View: 62.2 degrees
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5-axis IBIS
Filter thread: 49mm
Hood included

Feb 15, 2021 at 05:24 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Hello,

As it seems we are still missing great 35mm options (!) , it looks like Voigtlander will join the pack and offer a 35mm APO lens (in FE and M mounts) !

Source : Nokishita via SR https://twitter.com/nokishita_c

Edit : it looks like they will releae 2 lenses : an APO Anthar version (FE and VM) and an Ultron v2 (VM) !

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Feb 10, 2021 at 06:23 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Oh dear.

Feb 10, 2021 at 06:26 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

It's happening, apparently. Now we REALLY have every option

Feb 10, 2021 at 06:28 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Glad I cancelled my 35mm GM pre-order

Feb 10, 2021 at 06:37 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Voigtlander, shut up and take my money!

Feb 10, 2021 at 08:56 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Hope they delay the release like the GM while they check their lenses for flaws. I will not be buying one if it is going to be like their AL 50/2 in E mount.

Hint to Cosina: check the epoxy you use for bonding your glass.

Feb 10, 2021 at 08:59 AM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Good to see someone realising we don’t have enough 35s and doing something about it.

Feb 10, 2021 at 09:09 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

The 28 hate continues.

This will be impressive though—even in the uber crowded 35mm land, this will have a prominent place I think.

Fingers crossed CV releases a 90/2 APO varient.

Feb 10, 2021 at 09:16 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Well 35mm is 28 apo on 33x44 lol

Feb 10, 2021 at 09:18 AM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

The VM version is coming for sure; see the description for the LH-13 hood on Cosina's product page for accessories...

http://www.cosina.co.jp/seihin/voigtlander/accessory/index.html

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Feb 10, 2021 at 09:21 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Yes, would have preferred a 28/2.5 over a 35/2, but will take it.

Would also love a 90/2. Would sell my 110/2.5 for it. 180/4 would be awesome too.

nehemiahphoto wrote:
The 28 hate continues.

This will be impressive though—even in the uber crowded 35mm land, this will have a prominent place I think.

Fingers crossed CV releases a 90/2 APO varient.

Feb 10, 2021 at 09:22 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

My CV40 will stay put unless they offer a trade in program for the 35 APO

Feb 10, 2021 at 09:39 AM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Big if true. Hopefully it will be like a wider 50-65 'range' lens. In this logical extension the APO-Lanthars become: 35-50-65-110. Working their way downwards, they can't do a 21mm as Leica is doing in the SL range (they have two already), so a 28mm may still be on the agenda.

They are a company that doesn't muck around so the 35mm may be here sooner than expected. April-May, perhaps. And they 'owe' us a portrait length APO, 90/2 or even better, a 100/2 sounds right. Excellent, a technical lens to go with the other choices.

Feb 10, 2021 at 09:49 AM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

It looks like these will be announced any day now since Cosina already included some info about the new VM lenses (both 35/2 APO and 35/2 Vintage II) in their accessory section. If they are getting announced within a week or so, I'd expect them to be released before end of March too as Cosina doesn't usually announce lenses many months in advance to release. Nokishita leaks for new CV lenses also tend to arrive just a couple of days before announcement.

I'm not personally missing another 35/2 lens so much and I would have preferred a 28mm or a 75mm (wouldn't need to be APO for me) but I'll certainly consider it if the price is staying close to 120K yen max and if the size / weight are nice. 50/2 and 65/2 APO-Lanthars have clearly been the bestselling E-mount lenses for Cosina and now the 50/2 APO VM is doing well too so I'm not surprised that they bring out more APO-Lanthars.

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Feb 10, 2021 at 10:12 AM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Yet another 35mm. No doubt it's going to be great, but still.
I wonder how any vendor firmly believes that it will be more profitable to throw another prime into an overcrowded focal length bucket instead of going, say, 28mm, where there's nearly zero competition.
Some companies are just like sheep sometimes.

Feb 10, 2021 at 10:14 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

I think that the process of developing a new lens will take a while and I suspect that when the development began, Cosina didn't know anything about the situation in early 2021 with all the competition.

Two years ago I wanted a compact, manual 35mm lens with a consistently high sharpness over the entire image. In the past I liked to use such lenses (35-40mm) for multi row panoramas. For this, a consistently high sharpness is very important and a manual lens is also helpful because you can set the focus more reliably because of the hard stop.
The Loxia took beautiful pictures, but had too many weaknesses for me.
Unfortunately, in the meantime I have discovered the 40mm Nokton, which I like so much that I don't really need another lens in this area.
In principle, however, it doesn't actually meet my requirements because it is a diva in terms of sharpness...

Feb 10, 2021 at 10:41 AM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

I wonder how well this is going to differentiate itself from the Sigma 35mm f2 and the 35mm GM. I realize these lenses do have differences, but if you want linear MF you have the GM & CV, if you want high IQ in a compact package you have the Sigma & now the CV, if you want near max resolution wide open you have the GM & CV, if you want an all metal construction you have the CV & the Sigma.

The only areas where the CV stands alone will likely be its actually APO nature (GM has some loca, Sigma isn't completely free of either loca or laca IIRC) and a genuine MF experience instead of just linear response. The APO nature of this lens will probably give a slightly better color response than any other option in this category and boost some fine contrast that might have been muddied by slightly misaligned color channels.

I know this is FM, but how many of you out there actually want those advantages more than AF?

Feb 10, 2021 at 11:19 AM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Well, we knew that was coming. Nice timing Cosina

I'll be curious about the size comparison even though I will not be replacing my 1.2.

Feb 10, 2021 at 11:38 AM

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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · Official: Voigtlander 35mm f/2 APO-Lanthar announced!

Me for example.
I have two types of lenses:
The first group for small luggage and, above all, landscape photography: Small, as bright as possible and manual lenses.
The second group for everything else, such as portraits, events,...: Large, bright and autofocus.

In my opinion, a manual lens is completely different from an auto focus lens, even if the auto focus lens has linear manual focus.
The difference for me is the hard stop. I can focus perfectly within a second at night by turning the focus ring to the hard stop and (mostly) a tad back. With an autofocus lens there is always a fuss, the viewfinder is dark and noisy, the landscape is dark and difficult to see, so precise focussing is really difficult.
Even in daylight, I can focus blindly, faster and more precisely with manual lenses, provided the subject is a landscape.
For me, the new Voigtlander falls into a group with the Loxia 35mm and the Voigtlander 35mm f1.7. The aforementioned lenses have never completely convinced me, the new APO should be much better suited to my needs.
The other group is overcrowded with the two Sigmas, the Sonys, the Sony Zeiss, ...

Feb 10, 2021 at 11:45 AM

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