Re: 12mm/f5.6 Voigtlaender Ultra-Wide Heliar for Bessa-L (M39)

[Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

URL for this beauty:

http://www.cosina.co.jp/12mm/12-main.html

(PS, the Seitz pages on spectraweb.ch seem no longer there....never 
had a factory-link....is there one?....search engines seem just as 
clueless)

On 18 Aug 00 at 19:13, Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:

> Some spec's are hard to believe at first....but this one is
> true....a German friend mentioned a new 12mm rectilinear
> (non-fisheye) Voigtlaender lens, according to the German
> FotoMag....not having this magazine (yet), I was more than
> suspicious, until he sent me a scan of the article....not just a
> rumour, but a fat confident press-release....
> 
> To take away the first scare, it's 'only' slightly over US$1000, not 
> cheap, but still remarkably low for what is essentially an extreme 
> niche lens....
> Cosina (the actual factory, Voigtlaender is just a brandname, owned 
> by a chain of German shops (RingFoto)) has gone through great lengths 
> to make this lens as high-end as possible....classical symmetrical 
> (non-retrofocus) design, with a double-aspheric element (is that 
> new??), overall optical quality at least on par with the 15mm Heliar.
> 
> 121 degree angle of view, 10 elements, 8 groups, 0.3m minimum focus, 
> length 38mm, 162 gramm, optional sun-shade with filterholder.
> Separate viewfinder (just as the 15mm Heliar), which on itself might 
> be a cute solution for those shooting with the Rodenstock 35mm on 
> 6x12....same angle of view (but of course a much larger view 
> vertically!)
> 
> <grin>
> Me thinks that some of you will have to fabricate new gears for their 
> homebuild rotating cameras....:))
> 
> 
> --                 
> Bye,
> 
> Willem-Jan Markerink
> 
>       The desire to understand 
> is sometimes far less intelligent than
>      the inability to understand
> 
> <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>
> [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
> 

--                 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink

      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand

<w.j.markerink@xxxxx>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]