Voigtländer Zoomar
Tec specs
| Focal length | T | CF | ⌀ | Weight | Sensor | Mount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36–82mm | 3.1 | 88cm | 136 | 3,7kg | FF | PL |
Our whole team is very excited about this particular lens and very happy to finally add it to our portfolio.
The Voigtländer Zoomar is one of the oldest zooms ever designed for commercial still photography. It was released in 1959, and was incredibly advanced for its time. Its name became synonymos with the whole genre. Before the Zoomar saw the light of day, designs with adjustable focal lengths were called varifocal lenses or rubber lenses. The images it makes are still impressive today.
Its particularly natural bokeh and the golden, reddish flares distinguish the Zoomar and equip the lens with an elevated, warm atmosphere. A slight sharpness drop at the image edges creates a very natural perception, with hardly noticeable chromatic aberration.
In 1938 Frank G. Back, an Austrian native who had fled from the Nazis, found a new home in the USA. There he founded the company Zoomar Inc. and developed an optically compensated varifocal lens for television cameras. Varifocal lenses for film cameras had been around for some time, but they met the high demands for optical prescison in high end photography in no way This suddenly changed once the Voigtländer Zoomar was introduced to an astonished public at the international camera show in Philadelphia on February 10, 1959. A total of only 15,000 units were built.
In collaboration with GL Optics, Ancient Optics have given this zoom a nice workover and prepared it for its second lifecycle. The high quality rehouse suports both FF and S35.
You can mix the Voightländer Zoomar great with primes from the 60s 70s and early 80s primes like our Canon FD primes, the Canon Dream lens, the Cooke Panchro primes as well as the CANON K-35 zoom.
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