rob_h5 Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 <p>Anyone every try this RARE PANCAKE lens? Not the kind you put syrup on lol. Its the <strong>Voigtlander Ultron 40mm in Olympus OM mount</strong>? I have read it was produced briefly in 2005 but I cant seem to find any. How is the performance? The seems like an excellent alternative to the Zuiko 40/2.</p> <p><a href="http://www.beanos.com/~tsoutij/wp/stuff/index-of-pancake-lenses/cosina-voigtlander-ultron-40mm-f20">http://www.beanos.com/~tsoutij/wp/stuff/index-of-pancake-lenses/cosina-voigtlander-ultron-40mm-f20</a></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_shihanian Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 <p>Probably even more rare than the Zuiko 40/2. I've never seen one of the Ultrons for sale.<br> Rumors were it performed very well, but it's not much of an option if you can't get one.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_shihanian Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 <p>Duplicate</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph_wisniewski Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Your source refers to the availability in Oly mount as "Most likely it is just an Internet-fueled rumor." If you want one of these compact (but not "pancake", honest. I have one in Nikon mount) lenses, get the Nikon mount version and a Nikon to Four Thirds adapter. I've seen a lot of people praise the 40mm f2.0 Zuiko, but I was not impressed by it. Granted, that was many years ago, on film. On a 2x crop, the Voigtlander is hard to beat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starvy Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 <p>I too suspect that this is a red herring. Why would Cosina produce a lens like that as late as 2005?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph_wisniewski Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I can't see them even making the original SL (2002) in OM mount, let alone the SL 2 (2007). As far as I know, the only CV lenses released in OM mount were long ones, the 75mm Color Heliar and the 90mm and 125mm APO Lanthar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_shihanian Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 <p>No, it is a fact that they made them, at least the SL version, in very limited numbers and only for a short production run, but I believe they were mostly snapped up in Japan and even if a few made it to the US, they quickly sold out, and foreign buyers were involved too.</p> <p>Somebody named K kawakami has some shots posted on p base.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_robison3 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 <p>The 40mm f2, either Zuiko or Voigtlander are all overpriced collector lenses. I've had two 40mm f2 Zuiko's pass through my hands. Both were too perfect to be users and were sold for 4X what I paid for them to provide funds for other, more mundane but useable lenses. Performance wise they were competent but not "WOW" lenses.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_paris4 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 <p>Slightly off topic, but I had one of the Zuiko 40mm lenses, too. Bought it on eBay, used it (on film) for about 6 months, sold it for slightly more that I paid for it.<br> It was a nice lens, compact and reasonably sharp, but nothing really special. Don't really understand the premium price they command, except that Oly apparently didn't make very many.</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_sawyer Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 <p>Just to resurrect this thread... They did make an OM-mount Ultron 40mm f/2. I have one, new-in-box. (For sale if anyone really has to have it.) </p> <p><img src="http://edsawyer.com/lens/OM_gear/voigtlander_ultron_40mm_f2/IMG_5948.JPG" alt="" width="600" /></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricocroce Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 <p>Just to resurrect this thread... They did make an OM-mount Ultron 40mm f/2. I have one, new-in-box. (For sale if anyone really has to have it.) </p> <p><img src="http://edsawyer.com/lens/OM_gear/voigtlander_ultron_40mm_f2/IMG_5948.JPG" alt="" width="600" /></p> do you still have this Ultron OM for sale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darin_cozine Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Why even bother? The 50mm f1.8 is super sharp, compact, everything you could want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_sawyer Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Ricocroce - I do still have it, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aoresteen Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 Why even bother? The 50mm f1.8 is super sharp, compact, everything you could want. I agree. Get the one that says "Made in Japan" on the beauty ring. It's the best of the bunch. I have 3 or 4 50mm 1.8 lenses and I only use my MIJ version. NOT this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LZ0RyFrPvQ But this one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelSh Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 @ed_sawyer do you still have this Ultron OM for sale?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabriel_l1 Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 Well, I almost couldn't believe it, but I came across this lens in an eBay listing today (https://www.ebay.com/itm/166027022299, no affiliation). So here we all go, proof that this lens in this mount did in fact exist. I will attach images for posterity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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