Very nice, however MF only as always.
Is there hope that one day Voigtlander will release AF lenses?
I don't think so. MF is their thing. In theory, MF also relaxes some design constraints - namely, you don't need to care about the weight of the focus group.
I wonder whether adding a chip at least for EXIF and aperture reading adds more to cost/complexity...
Most of their new lenses support EXIF/auto-aperture.
Maybe they'll switch to AF one day - after all, Cosina has been making AF lenses at some point, right? I can't imagine them voluntarily pigeonholing themselves into that narrow niche forever (for financial, not conceptual reasons) if they really have the wherewithal to break out of it. See the Samyang case: they were only making stone age lenses for a while and seemed stuck in that rut, and then rapidly switched to AF - to the point that nobody even really remembers them being a stone age manufacturer now, and all the rage is in their E mount lenses. :-)
(02-23-2023, 09:22 AM)Rover Wrote: [ -> ] and then rapidly switched to AF - to the point that nobody even really remembers them being a stone age manufacturer now, and all the rage is in their E mount lenses. :-)
Stone age people such as me remember ............
AF is pretty much useless for macro and counterproductive with ultra-wides. And then there's video ...