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the biggest f/.95 M43 lens family
Voigtlander Micro Four Thirds f/0.95''s
10.5mm f/0.95 17.5mm f/0.95
25mm f/0.95 42.5mm f/0.95 60mm f/0.95
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Voigtlander 21mm f/1.4 Leica M Nokton
fast sharp wide angle for digital or film
Extremely fast 21mm f/1.4 lens with outstanding optical performance featuring 12 aperture blades for dreamy bokeh, outstanding correction for distortion and chromatic aberrations, 4 aspheric lens surfaces, 3 high index elements, floating lens elements for maximum sharpness.
? Beautiful bokeh with 12 aperture blades giving circular diaphragm pattern. Out-of-focus light sources are beautifully round and soft instead of polygonal.
? Outstanding optical performance utilizing floating elements in close focus range infinity. Distortion eliminated using two spherical elements with four aspheric surfaces. Chromatic aberration has been eliminated with three high index elements.
? Detachable compact square bayonet lens hood included. The square design is very effective while also preventing interference with rangefinder focusing.
? Rangefinder close focusing to .7 meters. Close focusing extended to .5 meters on live view M''s or with adapted live view mirrorless cameras.
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Voigtlander 50mm f/2 APO for Sony FE
outstanding APO performance
Voigtl?nder APO-LANTHAR 50mm F2.0 is a high performance manual focus normal lens optimized for the imaging sensors of Sony mirrorless cameras. With its apochromatic optical design, the lens is highly corrected to eliminate optical aberrations including longitudinal chromatic aberration. In addition, it is optimized for the ultimate performance of the resolution and contrast reproducibility. (Ref. MTF chart)
Voigtl?nder APO-LANTHAR 50mm F2.0 has both ultimate optical performance and compactness. It addition, the twelve aperture blades with are specially designed to be round at not only at F2, but also at F2.8 for beautiful circular Bokeh from a point light source.
Voigtlander 40mm f/1.2 Nokton, 50mm f/2 APO Lanthar, 50mm f/1.2 Nokton
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Voigtlander Sales Event Continues!
34 Voigtlander Leica M, Sony FE, Micro Four Thirds Lenses ON SALE
The BIGGEST Voigtlander Sale EVER
COMPLETE Sales List!
19 Voigtlander Leica M Lenses ON SALE
9 Voigtlander Sony FE Lenses ON SALE
Voigtlander SLII 58mm f/1.4 Nikon
one of the very best normal lenses ever made for Nikon SLRs
SLR LENSES ON SALE
Voigtlander MICRO FOUR THIRDS ON SALE
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USED VOIGTLANDER
Here at CameraQuest we have a quickly changing stock of quality
used Mint- or better Voigtlander lenses.
Just like new products, on used lenses we offer easy no hassel same condition 30 day returns.
Make sure to check out our used Voigtlander page to get the best deals on used voigtlander products!
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CameraQuest Classic of the Month
The Leica M4-P 70th Anniversary
Commemorating Leica Canada Saving Leica Germany?
OK, the official story you will read anywhere else is the 70th Anniversary M4-P celebrates the 70th anniversary of the first 1913 prototype UR Leica. But is that what this camera is REALLY about?
If the 10 year anniversaries of the 1913 prototype are such a big deal, why are there not other 10 year Barnack prototype commemoratives? Why was this the first and last commemorative celebrating the anniversary of that 1913 prototype? hmm. Only eight years before in 1975 Leica brought forth Leica''s 50th Anniversary M5 and CL cameras commemorating the 50th anniversary, and then not long after embarrassingly announced the end of the Leica M line. M5 sales had been disastrous, in large part because of the very popular smaller Leica CL whose profit had to be shared with Minolta, as it was produced in the Minolta factory. Future Leicas would be SLRs!
Then a funny thing happened. Photographers wanted to buy M cameras and Leica had none! Walter Kluck, the President of Leica''s Midland Canada''s factory, approached Leica management about renewing Leica M production. Wetzlar management was incredulous, but agreed providing Mr. Kluck could get 4,000 new M camera orders. He came back with 9,000 orders. Midland was given permission to renew M camera production. Long term, Walter Kluck had saved the M camera and what became the Leica Camera Company along with it. The made in Canada at the Leica Midland plant Leica M4-2 was announced at Photokina in 1976. The M4-2 was followed with the M4-P. Leica was saved as the Leica R System SLR sales went into the toilet. By 1983 the TTL M6 was under development, along with plans to move Leica M production back to Wetzlar. Somehow the 70th Anniversary M4-P was approved to make Leica a few more bucks. It would be the last Leica M camera introduced at Midland before the factory was sold to Howard Hughes Aircraft, and later to Raytheon. Interestingly, only a few of the German Midland employees chose to move back to Germany for free when the Midland factory was sold. The Midland factory arguably developed Leica''s best optics, including the 50/1 and 75/1.4. With 2020 hindsight, it seems the sale of the Midland plant was a mistake. To this day, the Midland facility under Hughes and then Raytheon went on to enjoy lucrative US military contracts. Raytheon continued to produce 50/1 Noctilux optics until stopping production 2007, which in turn forced the 50/1 Noctilux to be discontinued, to be replaced by the 50/95 Noctilux.
What does this all this add up to in my opinion? Leica Midland Canada employees knew the goodbye writing was on the wall and wanted to remind Wetzlar Germany management that Midland had saved Leica, with one more, one last Leica M commemorative. The M4-P 70th Anniversary reaching back to Leica''s 1913 beginning was Midland''s swan song, the last new Leica model to be introduced from the Midland factory. To me this is one of the most memorable and interesting Leica M commemoratives, as its real meaning is not what it is officially about. I look at the M4-P 70th Anniversary sadly, a remind of jealousy between two Leica factories, and the last reminder that Midland saved Wetzlar. Nonsense? Maybe, maybe not. MORE INFO HERE
Today Leica Canada exists as an engraving on Leitz Canada cameras and lenses.
After saving Leica Germany, Leica Canada was shut down and sold off not long after.
Think twice before you invest in some meaningless get the green stuff Leica commemorative.
Buy a Leica commemorative that stands for something.
YAY LEICA CANADA!
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