Voigtlander has just officially announced the new Color-Skopar 21mm f/3.5 Aspherical E-mount lens today. The Japanese price for this lens is 85,000 JPY, release date in October, 2018. US price hasn’t announced yet, stay tuned.
Main features:
● Sony E mount compatible With
electronic contacts, lens usage status is reflected in Exif information of shooting data. In addition, because it incorporates a distance encoder, it supports 5-axis camera shake correction on the camera body side. It is also possible to enlarge the viewfinder by operating the focus ring.
Optimized optical design In addition
to securing full-size image circle, it adopts optical design optimized for Sony E mount sensor. High resolution is maintained up to the periphery of the screen, and phenomena such as color hue are suppressed.
● Manual Focus capable of reliable focusing
Focusing smooth operation feeling by adopting a total metal helicoid unit processed and adjusted with high precision and high quality grease producing moderate torque. It enables delicate focus adjustment.
● Shortest shooting distance 20 cm
The shortest shooting distance from the subject to the image plane is 20 cm. It expands the possibilities of drawing with the intense perspective peculiar to ultra wide angle lens.
Specs:
| Focal length | 21 mm |
| Aperture ratio | 1: 3.5 |
| Minimum aperture | F22 |
| Lens configuration | 8 groups 9 |
| Angle of view | 91.2 ° |
| Number of diaphragm blades | 10 sheets |
| Shortest shooting distance | 0.2 m |
| Maximum shooting magnification | 1: 6.45 |
| Maximum diameter × total length | φ 62.8 × 39.9 mm |
| Filter size | φ 52 mm |
| weight | 230 g |
| Lens hood | Attached |
| Electronic contact | There |
| Focus magnification function | Correspondence |
| Exif information | Correspondence |
| Lens correction selection | Possible |
| 5-axis body internal hand shake | Correspondence (limited to body with 5 axes) |