Not saying this has anything to do with it but thought it might be appropriate to remind people of Amins original letter. Maybe they do listen after all.

Open Letter to Mr. Kobayashi, President of Cosina
Dear Mr. Kobayashi,

As a Micro Four Thirds enthusiast with great respect for Cosina's manual focus lens offerings in other mounts, I am writing to express a desire to see Cosina Voigtlander lenses designed for the Micro Four Thirds standard.

We Micro Four Thirds users could really use a wide angle lens with good manual focus feel and a distance scale appropriate for zone focusing. A Micro Four Thirds design equivalent of any of your several excellent, current wide angle offerings in the Leica M mount - for example a Micro Four Thirds 14mm f/2 Ultron or 17.5mm f/1.4 Nokton - would doubtless be well received.*

There also appears to be a solid market for more exotic offerings, such as a superfast normal lens. Although the adapted lens market has some lenses in this category, the soaring prices of these lenses on the used market attests to a still unmet demand for a current offering, priced in the range of your Nokton 50mm f/1.1 lens.

Micro Four Thirds is a standard which can take your fine manual focus lenses to a wider market going forward, both in the still photography as well as the video arena.

I'm sure that you have already considered this option and hope that others in our Micro Four Thirds community will join me in urging you to make it happen!

Sincerely,
Amin S

My own small contribution.

There's a link on their website at http://www.voigtlander.com/cms/voigt...aender_cms.nsf...
that says How can we help you? - well maybe we should start letting them know!

I received a reply from my email to Voigtlander.(Which was basically Amins open letter)

Thank you for your email and your suggestions in making lenses with
MicroFourThird mount.

There are no plans as of yet and we can not forsee the future, what will
happen next.
All new items will be presented on our website though, so please follow up
with it.

We hope we have been able to help you.

Kind regards

i. A. Petra Meredith
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VOIGTLÄNDER GmbH
ein Tochterunternehmen der RINGFOTO Gruppe

Benno-Strauß-Str. 39, D- 90763 Fürth
Tel: 0049- 911/ 65 85 182
Fax: 0049- 911/ 65 85 196
www.voigtlaender.de

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Now where to get the money…

Next a f0.70 for some Barry Lyndon scenes… ;D

Nice, I want one.

I would definitely be interested in this lens if I didn't already own the stellar 20mm 1.7.

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CV is finally starting to take notice and tackling the market. I've got the latest 12mm f5.6, but when I look at the aperture ring from the rear, it doesn't fully open, it actually opens up about half way, which is normal, but there appears to be scope for it to open up much more and make this lens a heck of a lot faster.

However, CV may have discovered that aberrations etc were woeful at a larger aperture and opted to keep things at f5.6. Wouldn't it be great if the 12mm could really be something like f2.8, but accepting some edge degradation.

Cheers

Ray

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But with a 0.95 aperture you could get some dreamy looking photos the 20mm couldn't.

There's more info at:-
dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20100826_388358.html

This is the Google translation - which actually doesn't help much!!

Interchangeable lenses and the first dedicated Koscina Maikurofosazukamera. The standard "Micro" Maikurofosazurenzu also be available from the manufacturer's first non-Olympus and Panasonic were formulated. Olympus 26, to the effect that agreed standards Koscina Micro has announced the Web site.

According to the Koscina The Micro mount adapter for pre-release (compatible with Nikon F mount, and Pentax K-mount compatible) production and release of the license at this time. "Aims to make products more reliable, authoritative described as a blessing to "he said. Fokutorenda? Different plans and products under the brand Carl Zeiss optics on the pending deployment. For Micro and about yesterday, 26 "SL" "ZF" such as names and misunderstandings as the format.

35mm equivalent focal length 50mm lens size will be considerably large 径単. F0.95 open F value, the brightest lenses in Koscina released so far. Currently as F0.95 lens, the Leica "Nokutirukkusu M f0.95/50mm ASPH." Are known. In the most open ever bright for Micro Lens F value is addition, Panasonic "LUMIX G 20mm F1.7 ASPH." Has become.

Optical system is designed specifically for the new Micro Four. Koscina said in a digital camera with interchangeable lenses Micro even a relatively small sensor size, F0.95 has been blurred to be able to increase the brightness of the background.

The focus MF. Employing a precision metal helicoid withstand severe focus at full aperture. MF sense that it also features a unique operation of the lens focus ring with grease. The total metal barrel.

Minimum focusing distance is 0.17m (1:3.9 maximum magnification photography), so that you can also use a macro lens and large aperture. Lens Construction 08 group was 11 shots. Imaging performance and the ultimate in using high refractive index glass. The iris 10. The size is 58.4 × 70mm (length × diameter). Weight 410g. The included lens hood

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Confirmation from Olympus about Cosina joining m4/3.

http://www.olympus-global.com/en/news/2010b/nr100826mfourthirdse.html

The phrase:-
To coincide with this announcement, the company is releasing interchangeable lenses compliant with Micro Four Thirds System standard.
occurs.

Lenses???

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It seems that this lens is designed for optimal bokeh:

• 10 blade diaphragm: a round pupil at all apretures
• The front lens element is significantly larger than the entrance pupil. This can indicate a design with nice uniform pupil shape over the entire image field. No funky clipped circles in the corners (like the Noktor).

Interestingly, the Japanese press release states that the only f/0.95 camera lens available is the Leica. They ignore the Noktor (which is a terrible lens imho, and not even a true f/0.95, but more like 1.1-1.4).

The DOF with this lens will be small, but not too small to be unworkable. It will be like a 50/1.8 on 35mm. If the lens would exhibit a touch of spherical aberration (the real soft-focus) at 0.95 that disappears at 1.2, this would open up some creative options.

I'm definitely interested for 900 Euros. I want photos!

Link(German)