Announcing the release of the Voigtlander MACRO APO- LANTHAR 65mm F2 Aspherical, a Sony E-mount macro lens for full frame sensors incorporating an apochromatic optical design and inscribed with the designation “APO-LANTHAR”

Not since the legendary 125mm APO Lanthar has such a desirable lens been made! Those lenses to this day demand higher than their original retail value.

Lanthar is Voigtlander's indication of the highest quality, resolution and color rendering...and this lens is no exception.


We announce the release of the Voigtlander MACRO APO-LANTHAR 65mm F2 Aspherical, a Sony E-mount macro lens for full frame sensors. The APO-LANTHAR designation is given to especially high performance lenses in the Voigtlander lens lineup. The legendary APO-LANTHAR lens that continues to enthrall photographers with its outstanding imaging performance and beautiful rendering was born in 1954, but its origins can be traced back around 120 years (see additional info about the APO-LANTHAR below).
A need for apochromatic optical designs that reduce the longitudinal chromatic aberrations of the three primary colors (RGB) of light to practically zero arose with the increasing popularity of color film. Now, with the current range of high- resolution digitals sensors, this need for extremely high-level control of chromatic aberrations is even more pertinent than when film changed from monochrome to color. So rather than just being for already solved old technologies, apochromatic optical designs are indeed a subject requiring serious consideration in the digital age.


The Voigtlander MACRO APO-LANTHAR 65mm F2 Aspherical, which inherits the designation “APO- LANTHAR”, is a high performance manual focus macro lens optimized for the imaging sensors of Sony mirrorless cameras. The optical performance of this lens, which provides an image circle capable of covering a full frame sensor, rates as one of the finest in the history of Voigtlander.

Sharp imaging performance is obtained from maximum aperture where you can enjoy blurring the background, and by utilizing a  coating mechanism this lens delivers outstanding image quality for subjects from the minimum focusing distance of 31cm (reproduction ratio of 1:2) through to in nity. This lens is a manual focus and manual aperture design, but also features electrical contacts that enable the lens settings at image capture to be included in the Exif information of the image data. Furthermore, the lens is installed with a distance encoder to enable support for 5-axis image stabilization on bodies with this feature, for example by providing distance to subject information used in X,Y shift compensation. Focus peaking while manual focusing is also supported.

Main features
  Full frame Sony E-mount with electrical contacts
  Apochromatic optical design that eliminates chromatic aberrations
  Enhanced high performance utilizing aspherical lens surfaces
  Optical design optimized for digital imaging sensors
  Extremely solid and durable all-metal barrel
  Manual focus for precise focusing
  Maximum reproduction ratio of 1:2 at a minimum focus distance of 31 cm

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