Last Updated on 10/09/2015 by Chris Gampat
Sony’s FE mount camera system just became even better supported; and this time by one of the legendary German lens/camera manufacturers. Though earlier this year, Voigtlander discontinued some of their film rangefinder cameras they are announcing three lenses for the Sony FE mount.
Essentially, they are some of the same lenses that are available for the VM mount (Leica M mount with Voigtlander’s own moniker) but converted to natively work with the Sony FE mount according to the information available. The three lenses are:
• 10 mm F 5,6 Hyper-Wide-Heliar
• 12 mm F 5,6 Ultra-Wide-Heliar
• 15 mm F 4,5 Super-Wide-Heliar
These lenses also have electronic contacts that transmit lens data, focusing data, etc. so that the camera can switch to the magnifying mode when manual focus is used (and providing you have that setting enables.) Like many other modern Voigtlander lenses, modifications were made that allow the user to have stepless aperture when shooting video. If you want, you can switch back to the good old clicked aperture setting that us photographers love. Voigtlander also says that these are the first three in the series–which means that we’re going to see more.
The three lenses are slated to come out in Spring 2016, no word on pricing details have been released but don’t expect them to be more expensive than the Zeiss lenses currently available for Sony FE mount (full frame E mount like the Sony A7 series of cameras). However, do expect them to be pricy.