Official Japan price is 90K yen (before tax). Map Camera price is 79920 yen (including tax).
Map Camera's site is behaving strangely though and the listings are marked as Sold Out (pre-orders not working). Their site was updated recently and there are still various strange behaviors... I guess they will make the pre-ordering work shortly. Anyway, buying new CV lenses from Map only works for Japan residents.
I'm not personally planning to get this lens but I may consider the 90/4 APO-Lanthar VM when that comes out.
p.1 #5 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
ftllens wrote:
WOW that was fast, I'm definitely getting the 75 2.8, I kept thinking about it after I left Yokohama. Wonder if its early or later may
Not during the first week of May for sure since that'll be the Golden Week holiday in Japan and Cosina doesn't normally release new products during holiday weeks. More often than not their new releases come out in 2nd half of the release month and I would guess this too will come out somewhere in the 2nd half of May.
p.1 #6 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
Juha Kannisto wrote:
More often than not their new releases come out in 2nd half of the release month and I would guess this too will come out somewhere in the 2nd half of May.
Too late for me but I'd rather get the 90/4 anyway. Maybe next year.
p.1 #7 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
There is a theory (which I don't necessarily ascribe to) that a high number of APD elements and low number of HRI elements leads to a flatter image with less pop.
As always the sample images aren't very helpful but they certainly look flat. It will be interesting to see what kind of images forum members produce with this lens. I really just want a cheaper (silver) 75 apo-cron 😭
p.1 #9 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
SpecFoto wrote:
Juha any indication if this will be available for the Fuji X mount? Immediate buy for me if it is.
I asked Cosina's Marketing head Sato-san (the person in the product introduction video) at CP+ about whether the new APOs 75/2.8 and 90/4 would also be planned for mirrorless and he said that they are only planned for M-mount as they are fully size-optimized for use with a rangefinder (i.e. to avoid rangefinder frame from being blocked by lens etc.) and Cosina believes that mirrorless users prefer faster aperture APO lenses even if size gets a bit bigger. Their X-mount lenses have also been designed for APS-C sensor size from the beginning so I think none of them are directly based on existing FF M-mount lenses...
p.1 #11 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
No MTF published.
I tend to get suspicious.
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p.1 #12 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
Maximilian wrote:
No MTF published.
I tend to get suspicious.
They only publish the MTFs of the APO-Lanthar lenses. They have not published the MTFs of any of the APO ultrons or APO skopars, so no MTFs is to be expected for this lens. Some of those lenses, like the 90 f/2 APO-Ultron likely have spectacular MTFs, but Cosina still didn't publish them.
p.1 #14 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
Fred Miranda wrote:
Voigtlander 75mm f/2.8 APO-Lanthar Image Samples by photographer Mitsuru Kano
Leica M240
Thanks for posting these samples, but your text should read Voigtlander 75mm f/2.8 APO-Skopar (not APO-Lanthar). I made the same mistake when I first posted about this lens. It's just the new 90mm that is an APO-Lanthar.
p.1 #15 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
dan98 wrote:
Thanks for posting these samples, but your text should read Voigtlander 75mm f/2.8 APO-Skopar (not APO-Lanthar). I made the same mistake when I first posted about this lens. It's just the new 90mm that is an APO-Lanthar.
p.1 #16 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
Steve Spencer wrote:
They only publish the MTFs of the APO-Lanthar lenses. They have not published the MTFs of any of the APO ultrons or APO skopars, so no MTFs is to be expected for this lens. Some of those lenses, like the 90 f/2 APO-Ultron likely have spectacular MTFs, but Cosina still didn't publish them.
That's right.
And I find it's a very questionable marketing decision.
p.1 #18 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
Maximilian wrote:
That's right.
And I find it's a very questionable marketing decision.
I don't think it's a questionable decision, it seems quite intentional. Cosina appears to share MTF data mainly for lenses they consider closer to peak or reference-level optical performance. I would personally prefer more consistency, with performance data released across their entire lineup.
In the case of the CV 75mm f/2.8 APO, I really appreciate that Cosina treats frameline blockage as an important design goal. Since they are designing specifically for Leica M bodies, it's clear they try to minimize viewfinder obstruction for many of their lenses, including in their hood designs.
The main exception, in my view, is the Voigtlander 28mm f/2 APO-Lanthar, where the hood design has never quite made sense to me in this context.
p.1 #19 · Cosina Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75/2.8 VM got officially announced for May release
I've been looking at various 75mm options. This lens seems to check a lot of boxes for me. Images look great (check!) my next criterion is (small) size, check! I noted the comment that it does not block the frame lines at all, check! A 2.8 max aperture is fine too, any larger can be tough to focus well and it still gives a narrow depth of field. I had one of the old 75 Summilux lenses that defied most attempts to focus at 1.4 sometimes even f/2. Price seems right too, 500 bucks (at current rates), triple check!
