On Facebook Voigtlander confirmed the new will ship in Q1/Q2. And Martin Wagner is apparently the only one having the new Voigtlander in his hands. He just posted one single image samples on his facebook page 🙂
So far on Voigtlanders site you can only read the specs and download two pictures of the lens. And still no preorder option at BHphoto where the lens is listed with unknown price and availability.
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Who is Martin Wagner and what is so special that he got to have one for free????
employee of voigtlander? 😀
Nice perks…..
He seems to work for Ringfoto, which is a large distributor for photography equipment in Europe.
Ringfoto also bought the Voigtländer branding many years ago. The Voigtländer mFT lenses get build by Cosina, who then license the Voigtländer name from Ringfoto.
There is some information about it in the Wikipedia
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voigtl%C3%A4nder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosina_Voigtl%C3%A4nder
i already know where my next jobinterview must be.
No doubt, the 10.5mm will be great. The 0.95/25mm Nokton is already ridiculously good, dangerously sharp stopped down and sharp @f0.95 for distant objects, close up distance from 17cm and still smallish. These Voigtlander MFT lenses really show the potential of m43. These lenses are extreme lenses with character and lots of creative potential. I wish Voigtlander would make a small standard full manual lens, maybe with f2.0 speed. The built quality alone would justify its purchase. Such lenses are not meant for making pictures only, they are made to fall in love with…
Check out the Voigtländer M and L mount lenses.
There are some excellent ones at lower prices than the native M4/3 Noktons.
Non that wide though right?
There are 12mm and 15mm, but not very fast.
I just want to know how expensive it will be, so I can finally give up any hope of having a chance to shoot with it.
IMO the extreme fast UWA shoooter is still rather new breed of user. Future will tell how popular the lenses will be.
I tried Nikon’s 20/1.8 on a D810; it certainly made me want to buy that combination. 😛
$1800
Good luck CV!
I bet on a price slightly higher than that of the great 17.5mm.
Me want Voigtlander 10.5mm f/0.95 but would take Oly or Panny autofocus 1.8 too.
No UWA Olympus with AF and f/1.8 aperture. It’s only 12/2 prime and 9-18/4-5.6 zoom.
Oly are you listening, make Douglas a happy man
Make me happy as well .
Another wide angle with F1.0 will do
Go all out on a fast little 9mm. 🙂
You are right but F1.8 sounds too ordinary . Be ambitious , demand a F1.0 autofocusing wide angle lens for m4/3 .
An autofocus f/1.0 would be great. I’d still probably opt for a “slow” f/1.8 if it were significantly smaller, lighter, less expensive and sharper wide open — which is likely. 🙂
Oly can come out such lens not bigger than the current 75mm lens .
Btw , the lens you intend to have already existed , the 12mm F2 .
No much differ with 10.5mm ,
No point for Oly to come out another similar lens with F1.8 .
I’m after something wider than a 24mm FoV. A 21mm would do, but an 18mm (9mm) would be better.
I think Douglas is more realistic then you Yun, but i admire your F1 craze
Above mentioned is the lens short of in m4/3 system .
It also mentioned by Lenstip.com when reviewing the LEICA DG 15mm .
It is relevant / needed in m4/3 system .
i think its only used by a group but not by users in general
Given the price of the 12mm f2, $800 list price, just imagine what Olympus would charge for a 9mm f1.0! I’ll stick with Voigtländer.
Dump the all metal construction and you can probably get a plastic 10,5mm f1.8 at the same relative price as the 17mm f1.8 or the 25mm f1.8
How does f0.95 magically become f1.8?
Besides, f1.8 does NOT replace f0.95. EVER.
I don’t think that was his point. I think many people would be very well-served by a compact, plastic AF 10mm/1.8 @ around $400.
Make it between 7-9mm. That would be even better.
Don’t forget about the “limited edition” tax you pay if you want it in black
It’s no more limited, you can have it in black. (No black hood included though)
I think everything will b in focus at that focal llength from about 7cm onwards even wide open..
Good point. Autofocus on a smallish sensor and such a wide focal length is pretty optional.
dream lens for the system. I want this.
Sold my 9-18. This will replace it and I can’t freaking wait.
Mother Nature imposes certain limits on lens design, therefore I think it will be only usable from f2.0 onwards, barring some intentional artistic effects. There’s a reason why both Oly and Panny aim for f1.8.
Oly plans on releasing faster lenses. Nocticron is a killer lens at 1.2. I have a need for speed. .95 10.5 is also bragging rights. I like to have it all. GIVE ME THIS LENS.
Here are some full size samples taken with a prototype of this lens on the EM1 at f0.95, f1.4, f2.0, f2.8 and f4.0
http://pliki.optyczne.pl/voigt_10_095/P9170524_f095.JPG
http://pliki.optyczne.pl/voigt_10_095/P9170526_f14.JPG
http://pliki.optyczne.pl/voigt_10_095/P9170528_f2.JPG
http://pliki.optyczne.pl/voigt_10_095/P9170531_f28.JPG
http://pliki.optyczne.pl/voigt_10_095/P9170533_f4.JPG
I don’t care for the look at f/0.95, but f/1.4, f/2. f/2.8 and f/4 would look great as a double truck (2 pages wide) in a magazine.
When downsized, one could be excused for not noticing artifacts but there’s extreme purple fringing (e.g. around lady’s blouse) and the image is soft. I don’t blame the lens though, it’s just the way things are when you goo too bright and too wide – other lenses would show similar artifacts.
the first picture (at 0.95), where is focus done, can’t see very well?
Those shots were shown before. I saw them many months ago.
I have the 25mm SLR Magic T 0,95 – though it’s a very shallow DOF when wide open, I’m also going to say that YES you can definitely use such an aperture, to great effect. Depends on what you want to shoot, naturally, you’re going to need a higher F-stop if you want more in focus. But the option to shoot in very low light, as long as you can use the shallow focus, is great.
SLR magic 25mm 0.95 is a great lens, sharper than the Voigtlander 25mm.
I haven’t compared, but I’m very happy with it. I actually wanted to wait for the 10mm Voigtlander, but I had an opportunity to get the SLR Magic really cheap on Black Friday so I grabbed it.
thing about those .95 lenses (I had the 25 Voight) is if you’re not using them for wafer thing DOF then you’re carrying around a big heavy lens were one of the light tiny 25mm Olympus or Panny lenses are as good or better optically.
Better late than Schneider.
Um, what?
He suffers from SKDS. (Schneider-Kreuznach Delay Syndrom)
I was just thinking the same thing, only not worded as cleverly. Kudos and spot-on
10.5mm = 21mmFF, = 38mm Hasselblad SWC (6×6), = 47mm 4×5 Film. Not very wide! Where is the Voigtländer 7mm f/0.95??
21mm FF is very wide. It’s not comical like a 14mm ultrawide, but the perspective distortion on those lenses still makes them quite unreal unless used carefully. As a result, they are best used as an extremely specialized tool, like a tilt-shift lens.
You can use the 7.5mm f3.5 fisheye, which when defished gives very nice results. Or the Kowa 8.5mm/2.8, which seems to have almost no geometric (not perspective) distortion. Or you can use the 7-14mm Panasonic or 9-18 Olympus.
Not every single specialized lens niche is likely to be filled. M4/3 does better than any other mirrorless system, but mirrorless still has a limited audience at this point.
I agree that most Very Serious Photo Enthusiasts haven’t a clue about how to use a wide or ultra-wideangle lens. But there a few amateurs and Pros who do.
Nikon just released a 20mm f/1.8 FF lens, and Voigtländer makes 12mm, 15mm and 21mm Full Frame lenses. BTW the four lenses I mentioned are all rectilinear, not Fisheye, lenses. BTW2 Canon, Nikon and Voigtländer are in business to make a profit, so they must sell a few of the lenses you don’t like 😉 BTW3 I’m thinking of getting a used Voigtländer Film camera so that I can use their awsome (to me) 12mm lens.
I like rectilinear lenses and I don’t find 180° Fisheyes a viable replacement. I really don’t like Zoomz, and would rent a 5D3 with a 14mm lens, before I used a 7-14mm zoom on a M4/3 camera, YMMV!
You can make <15mm rectilinear lens for FF. The 14mm is the limit in past. But for m4/3 you can do 7mm that is same as 14mm would be for FF. A one mm difference and it is huge! But Leica had now that 12mm and it gives 121° horizontal field of view.
oh they will. give them another year. 7mm f/0.95 is out there.
I was interested in this lens for use doing videos mostly and after it was announced signed up to be alerted when it became available. Every 2 weeks (since last summer?) I receive a note saying it’s still not available. I sold the GH3 and GH4 and bought an A7s. Sometimes camera companies should wait before they promise something they can’t deliver.
What’s the problem with producing a reasonably priced f/2 UWA? Or f/2.8 even?
No bragging rights.