Ģ016 Cosina manufactured a Nokton 1,4/ 58 mm after 2003 a second time. On April 26, 2010, Cosina joined the Micro Four Thirds System Standard Group. It quickly followed with a wider range of Voigtländer cameras (starting with the Bessa-R, with viewfinder and rangefinder, and the Bessa-T, with rangefinder, but no viewfinder), and a set of lenses, including the Heliar 12 mm f/5.6 lens, which on its introduction was the widest rectilinear lens ever marketed for still photography. Cosina first introduced the Voigtländer 15 mm f/4.5 and 25 mm f/4 lens (neither of them rangefinder-coupled) and the Voigtländer Bessa-L standard camera body. ALFO Marketing KG in Germany, to produce the Classic Collection (high-quality lenses with both M39 screw thread and Leica M bayonet, 35mm film cameras Bessa R, Bessa L, Bessa T, and medium format cameras Bessa III). In 1999, Cosina secured partial rights to the German, once Austrian, classic camera brand ' Voigtländer', acquired from RINGFOTO GmbH & Co. Cosina began producing digital cameras in 1997.Īt about this time, plans were started to produce a new high-quality rangefinder 35 mm film camera, complete with wide and ultrawide lenses for the Leica screw mount, and also a standard 35 mm film camera for the amateur film photography sector - similar to a rangefinder camera, but without a rangefinder or viewfinder - for mounting these lenses. In 1991, it started to produce glass molded aspheric lenses, and in 1996 plastic molded aspherical lenses. In 1982, Cosina began to manufacture lenses in a variety of SLR manufacturers' lens mounts. This rangefinder camera was adopted as the basic chassis for several excellent camera models, including the Minolta 7SII, Revue 400 SE, Prinz 35 ER, and Vivitar 35 ES.

During the late 1970s, Cosina made a name for itself in 35 mm rangefinder cameras with a well-built, high quality fixed-lens camera using an aluminum body and a simple shutter-priority autoexposure system. However, Cosina is probably better known as a manufacturer of cameras and camera components for other brands. Cosina SLR cameras used either the M42 (Praktica/Pentax) lens mount or the Pentax K (bayonet) lens mount. The CS-2 and CS-3 SLRs were introduced in 1978, followed in 1980 by the CT-1, CT-7 (the world's first all-push-button SLR), CT-10 and CT-20, the CT-1G in 1982 and the CT-9 in 1986. The name Cosina has previously appeared on compact and SLR cameras for 135 film. (The first part of the name is a reference to the Koshi area within Nakano, where the founder came from while the 'Na' represents Nakano.) In 1966, it also started to manufacture 35 mm compact cameras and 8 mm cine cameras, and a year later started the manufacture of 35mm film SLR cameras in 1968 it started a glass melting factory.

Cosina is the successor to Nikō (or 'Nikoh'), a company set up as a lens processing factory in February 1959, which was a pioneer in optical polishing and lens grinding in Japan.

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