p.1 #1 · Cosina Voigtländer 23/1.2 and 35/1.2 Silver versions for X-mount got announced
Today Cosina Voigtländer announced that they will release Silver versions of X-mount 23/1.2 and 35/1.2 lenses + a new optional hood LHX-1S (Silver) and LHX-1B (Black) that can be used with these lenses (also with original Black versions). Apparently they have received a lot of requests for Silver versions of these lenses so they decided to make them. It would have been more exciting if there was an entirely new lens for X-mount but perhaps something new will be released at a later time.
There is some conflicting information about the release months. Japanese Product pages say that both will be released in September (specific date to be announced later) but announcement pages say that 35/1.2 will be released in September and 23/1.2 in October. In English X-mount listings the heading also states October for 23/1.2 so that might be correct. They'll probably correct the discrepancies after some time.
I personally have the black version of 35/1.2 and I have a limited Map Camera anniversary edition of 23/1.2 that has a bit different build and Single Coating instead of the regular MC. I usually prefer Black versions when both are available so I'm not planning to get these myself.
p.1 #2 · Cosina Voigtländer 23/1.2 and 35/1.2 Silver versions for X-mount got announced
If Fujifilm would oblige and release the long awaited X-Pro4 !
I often question why Voigtländer does not release a silver version* of their 35mm Nokton classic VM.
(* beyond that limited run MAP special edition of the mkI lens )
( Updating the VM lens for uncoupled close focus would be nice; I'm finding the recent Z native version of this is great fun to use )
p.1 #3 · Cosina Voigtländer 23/1.2 and 35/1.2 Silver versions for X-mount got announced
Part of me was hoping that Cosina would time the release of some new native X-Mount glass with X-Trans 6 (X-T6)...!?
If anyone from Cosina is reading this, a 14mm/1.4 or 18mm/1.4 would be great!
I own the 35/1.2 and 23/1.2. The 35/1.2 has a beautiful & classic rendering with gorgeous bokeh (spherical elements only!). 23/1.2 is also very fine, however field curvature makes it a little tricky to nail focus (but very "poppy"!).. to combat this i find you have to focus / shoot <f2.
