In the UK the Leica M7 costs £3,600, the Zeiss Ikon costs £1,270 and the Bessa 4A costs £594, all prices for body only. The Bessa 4A is distinguished by being by far the cheapest of the three Leica-type automatic rangefinder film cameras in production today. It also makes the Zeiss Ikon rangefinder film camera and designed and made the Epson RD1 digital rangefinder. Since 1999 Cosina Voigtlander (“CV”) has produced many lenses for the LTM and M mount as well as for Nikon and Pentax and makes (amongst other lenses) the Zeiss M and Z ranges and the recent Zeiss Touit lenses for Sony NEX and FujiFilm X cameras. Each model is produced in M (manual) and A (automatic) form and are identical to the picture shown. The current range is the Bessa R with the Leica M bayonet mount of which the models are R2 with framelines for 35, 50, 75 and 90 mm, R3 with 1:1 magnification and framelines for 40, 50, 75 and 90 mm and R4 with framelines for 21. In 1999 the revived Voigtlander brand was re-born with the Bessa L a rangefinder camera with the Leica LTM screw mount. From the 1970s it has been making cameras for Argus, Contax, Nikon, Olympus, Vivitar and Yashica as well as under its own name. In 1999 the Voigtlander brand was licensed to Cosina Company.Ĭosina is an optical and photographic company that was formed in 1959 as a lens manufacturer mainly as subcontractor for better known brands. When Zeiss ceased production of cameras in 1972 it sold Voigtlander to Rollei which in its turn ceased trading in 1982 after which the brand name was acquired by a German marketing company. In the 20th Century it produced many important cameras and lenses becoming part of the Zeiss organisation in 1965. Voigtlander is known as an optical company founded in 1756 in Vienna and created photographic products from 1840, moving to Germany in 1849.
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