![]() The Ultron is a thread mount lens, the first I’ve reviewed on the site. Regardless of the specifications the lens is certainly nice and fast. It almost feels like it’s been added for bragging rights to ensure that this was the fastest 28mm lens for Leica cameras available at the time of its release (and remains so for LTM cameras I believe). The aperture specification of f/1.9 is an unusual one – the difference to an f/2 lens is negligible. Since then they’ve designed and produced lenses and cameras branded with the Austrian/German company name in addition to producing lenses for other marquees e.g. * This isn’t really the place for going into history, but the Japanese optical manufacturing company Cosina bought the rights to the Voigtländer name in 1999. ![]() The Leica Summicron 28/2 was released the same year but up until this point there weren’t any 28mm lenses faster than f/2.8 for use on Leica cameras. Launched in 2000 it’s an early Cosina-made Voigtländer lens – just a handful of their lenses had been released before it*. The fast f/1.9 aperture makes the lens useable handheld even in very low light. At 28mm the Ultron offers an easy to use moderate wide angle of view.
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