Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Visoflex and 125 Apo-Lanthar was suggested to Mr Kobyashi, President of Cosina, at a meeting in November. Now, remember that the last Viso's were listed in Leica's catalogue in the late 70's and early 80's. The reaction from Voigtlander was not the 'Why make a lens for an obsolete system" that one would anticipate, but rather" Should that be in a pre-set aperture mode or a regular aperture mode." I haven't followed up on the idea due to time constraint, but I would not mind one lens like that. It would make a dandy Macro lens on an SL or R camera with the adapter. The lens will go to 1:1 without extension tubes too! As a sidenote, the 45/2,8 Pancake lens for the FM3A Nikon is made by Cosina for Nikon. I saw the prototype of this lens in November last year. They also make the 75/2,5 in a Nikon SLR mount. Tom A