According to a new rumor (source seems to be Nokishita), Cosina will announce these lenses for November 2022 release:
VM mount:
- Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 Type I and Type II
Nikon Z:
- Apo-Lanthar 65/2
"Also, it seems that the 35mm F1.5 will be added to the NOKTON Vintage Line series for M mount, and like the 50mm F1.5 and 75mm F1.5, it has a classical appearance and a modern optical system that uses aspherical surfaces. It looks like it's going to be a lens that has both."
I'm interested in the new 35/1.5, though it might not work all that well on Sony sensor stack...
Sadly still nothing new for E-mount.
p.1 #3 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
Juha Kannisto wrote:
According to a new rumor (source seems to be Nokishita), Cosina will announce these lenses for November 2022 release:
VM mount:
- Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 Type I and Type II
"Also, it seems that the 35mm F1.5 will be added to the NOKTON Vintage Line series for M mount, and like the 50mm F1.5 and 75mm F1.5, it has a classical appearance and a modern optical system that uses aspherical surfaces. It looks like it's going to be a lens that has both."
I'm interested in the new 35/1.5, though it might not work all that well on Sony sensor stack...
Sadly still nothing new for E-mount....Show more →
Yes, vintage line only refers to the appearance of the lens. This should be similar to the CV 50/1.5 II Nokton.
Therefore it should have aspherical(s) and perform like a modern lens. It should not compete with the current CV 35/1.4 Nokton.
Maybe this will replace the now discontinued well-balanced 35/1.7. CV has a character 35 (35/1.4) moderate speed compact (35/2 ultron), super corrected (35/2 apo) and an uber-fast rendering lens (35/1.2viii). A faster, compact update on the 35/1.7 would be quite welcome I think.
I don’t think this is an update on any thing currently in their catalog, but maybe I am missing it. It’s rumored as “vintage”—not sure if that’s means design language or optic signature or both.
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p.1 #9 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
Hi Nehemiah,
See the thread on this lens just a bit below that Juha started a couple of days ago. There Fred writes:
"Yes, vintage line only refers to the appearance of the lens. This should be similar to the CV 50/1.5 II Nokton.
Therefore it should have aspherical(s) and perform like a modern lens."
So, I think you are right this could well replace the 35 f/1.7 (it should be shorter at least), and I expect it to be a lot like the 28 f/2 II, but we will see soon enough I suppose.
p.1 #10 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
Hi Steve,
Sorry (I missed Juha’s post)—I’ll look for it. Will be very interesting it’s an all-a rounder to compete with the ZM 35/1.4 and 35 Lux.
I do hope CV makes a bit of a fatter/wider optical train and specifically from element to minimize optical vignetting. I’d like both my CV 35/2 ultron, CV 35/1.7 and 28/2 if the optical vignetting was lessened a bit.
p.1 #12 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
Pumped to see this one. Fingers crossed it’s a CV 35/1.7 replacement—all around. Good coma correction and not extensive cat’s eye would be welcome. And lovely flare resistance.
p.1 #13 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
It's a question mark if the new CV 35/1.5 Nokton will have similar or superior performance to the CV 35/1.7 Ultron. Both belong to the "Vintage line" along with the CV 35/2 Ultron .
Hopefully it will be at least as short as the Leica 35/1.4 FLE.
p.1 #14 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
'Long holidays for CV in terms of e-mount offerings.'
It looks more like the long (and unspoken) goodbye, as seen in the Zeiss weather vane modality. Either way, transparency is not a strong point, or even a thing at all. Recall that Sony was the only game in mirrorless town when Cosina got serious in 2017. Despite Sony inviting off-brand lens producers back then, Nikon is really the traditional SLR manual focus brand, of those left standing.
It's likely that new releases of the only full frame cross-brand MF maker will soon be directed their way, perhaps exclusively. Sony users might best be 'glass half full' on what they have received, and 'glass half empty' for the future.
If so, a small but serious set of users will continue to migrate to Nikon over time, and E-Z adapters are available for their CV-E lenses. It won't work in reverse, you can't turn an FFD of 16mm into an FFD of 18mm. Cosina might have found a better mass market home, going forward. Their longer-than-50mm portrait/telephoto lens cupboard is still bare, the 75mm (an M lens) excepted. They are a capricious firm.
p.1 #15 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
I was told that the new CV 35/1.5 Nokton will be available next month (Nov.) and it's a high performance lens. (higher resolution than the discontinued 35/1.7 Ultron)
p.1 #16 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
Fred Miranda wrote:
It's a question mark if the new CV 35/1.5 Nokton will have similar or superior performance to the CV 35/1.7 Ultron. Both belong to the "Vintage line" along with the CV 35/2 Ultron .
Hopefully it will be at least as short as the Leica 35/1.4 FLE.
Question is whether it will be at least as good as the aging Leica 35/1.4 FLE.
My hunch, given recent stellar CV offerings, is that it is likely to be better.
But if they make 35/1.5 very consistent with the design style of their other Vintage line lenses that have Type I and Type II variants, it may come with the chrome ring...
- Color-Skopar 21/3.5
- Ultron 28/2 II
- Ultron 35/2
(- Nokton 50/1.5 II << Not really Type I and Type II, but still several variants)
I think the official announcement will probably come soon, later this week or at least next week. Then we will see.
p.1 #18 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
Fred Miranda wrote:
I was told that the new CV 35/1.5 Nokton will be available next month (Nov.) and it's a high performance lens. (higher resolution than the discontinued 35/1.7 Ultron)
This is great news.
Also have my eye on the rumor that Leica will announce a 35 Lux pre-ASPH Steel Rim reissue alongside the M6 reissue:
p.1 #19 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
philip_pj wrote:
'Long holidays for CV in terms of e-mount offerings.'
It looks more like the long (and unspoken) goodbye, as seen in the Zeiss weather vane modality. Either way, transparency is not a strong point, or even a thing at all. Recall that Sony was the only game in mirrorless town when Cosina got serious in 2017. Despite Sony inviting off-brand lens producers back then, Nikon is really the traditional SLR manual focus brand, of those left standing.
It's likely that new releases of the only full frame cross-brand MF maker will soon be directed their way, perhaps exclusively. Sony users might best be 'glass half full' on what they have received, and 'glass half empty' for the future.
If so, a small but serious set of users will continue to migrate to Nikon over time, and E-Z adapters are available for their CV-E lenses. It won't work in reverse, you can't turn an FFD of 16mm into an FFD of 18mm. Cosina might have found a better mass market home, going forward. Their longer-than-50mm portrait/telephoto lens cupboard is still bare, the 75mm (an M lens) excepted. They are a capricious firm....Show more →
Based on lens sales info for Japan, Cosina's FF Z-mount lenses are not really outselling their Sony counterparts and the Sony versions were peaking much higher in the charts when they were new and fresh. Even now the E-mount versions are still holding their own. I wouldn't expect Cosina to move towards Nikon Z exclusivity based on that, but I think they want to be an early mover in Z-mount 3rd party lenses and try to maximize their sales while there is not yet as much competition, so they may be continuing to close the gaps between their E-mount and Z-mount FF offerings for a while now. So far they have been picking their E-mount all time best-sellers for Z-mount FF first and I'm curious where they will go from there.
I think in the future when they are ready to bring out an entirely new mirrorless FF lens they'd bring it out in both mounts.
Sadly they don't seem to put much stock on covering the 28mm FL for mirrorless, which is the one I'm personally missing in their mirrorless lineup most.
p.1 #20 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2
Fred Miranda wrote:
I was told that the new CV 35/1.5 Nokton will be available next month (Nov.) and it's a high performance lens. (higher resolution than the discontinued 35/1.7 Ultron)
How CV balances the technical IQ versus the rendering is the crux of it. I hope it has a focusing tab, or a version of it does. The appeal of the 35/1.7 was the balance of those two (definitely not the ergonomics lol).
