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In 1950, the Bessa and Bessa RF were redesigned and sold as the Bessa I and Bessa II, respectively. Production ended in 1956, as the acquisition of Voigtländer by Carl Zeiss AG was completed and the firm began favoring its 135 film camera lines, including the Vito , Vitessa , and Prominent rangefinders and the Bessamatic/Ultramatic SLR lines.
Announced in October, 2006 at photokina, the Bessa R4M and Bessa R4A were the first Leica M-mount cameras to include framelines wider than 28 mm. [citation needed] The R4-series keeps the same features as the R3-series, but utilizes a wide-angle-specific viewfinder with .52x magnification and framelines for 21, 25, 28, 35, and 50 mm lenses.
Top view of Bessamatic Deluxe camera with Color-Skopar X lens. The leaf shutter is a Synchro-Compur unit mounted behind the interchangeable lens, which uses the DKL-mount, although lenses made for the Bessamatic are not generally compatible with other DKL-mount cameras, and the Bessamatic DKL-mount will not generally accept non-Voigtländer lenses without physical modifications. [1]
From 1839, the year, when the invention of photography was being published, came objective optics and from 1840 complete cameras for photography. The Voigtländer objectives were revolutionary because they were the first mathematically calculated precision objectives in the history of photography, developed by the Austro-Hungarian/Slovak mathematics professor Josef Maximilian Petzval, with ...
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The second line of Prominent cameras were marketed as professional system cameras against the Leica threadmount and M bayonet mount and Zeiss Ikon Contax rangefinder camera lines. Voigtländer also sold the Vitessa and Vito lines of compact 35mm rangefinders contemporaneously, generally equipped with fixed, collapsible normal lenses , as less ...
Cosina started producing cameras and lenses under the Voigtländer brand in 1999, when it introduced a new M39 mount body and lenses. It has since produced a prodigious variety of these lenses in M39x26, Leica M mount, Nikon S rangefinder mount (some fully usable with Contax RF bodies), and SLR mounts including M42 and Nikon F.
For cameras later manufactured under the Voigtländer brand by Cosina (aka Cosina Voigtländer), see Category:Cosina rangefinder cameras Pages in category "Voigtländer rangefinder cameras" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.