What is the cheapest used Voigtlander Prominent in the UK?

The cheapest used Voigtlander Prominent currently listed is £83.00 at eBay, based on 8 listings compared across 2 UK retailers.

How many used Voigtlander Prominent are for sale in the UK?

There are currently 8 used Voigtlander Prominent listings available across 2 UK retailers on UsedLens, updated daily.

Used Voigtlander Prominent for Sale — From £83

£83.00 Low price

£399.99 High price

8 Listings

2 Retailers

1 New this week

3 Reduced

Great for: general street travel portrait

Voigtlander's interchangeable-lens 35mm rangefinder — the Prominent, proprietary bayonet, 1952.

The Voigtländer Prominent was a 35mm coupled-rangefinder camera introduced in 1952 by the West German maker Voigtländer. It was the firm's most ambitious 35mm design, an interchangeable-lens leaf-shutter rangefinder rather than a focal-plane system. Some listings give 1950, but period references place the launch in 1952; a revised Prominent II followed in 1958. Today it is as much a collector's piece as a user camera.

It is a 35mm rangefinder built around a proprietary Prominent bayonet mount, unique to the system and incompatible with other makers. Standard lenses included the 50mm f/2 Ultron, 50mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar and 50mm f/1.5 Nokton, with wider and longer options also offered. A behind-lens Synchro-Compur leaf shutter gives 1 second to 1/500 plus B with self-timer and M/X sync. It is fully mechanical, with a combined viewfinder and rangefinder and no built-in meter.

It is a heavy, mechanically dense camera with unusual ergonomics, including a focus wheel and a bottom-mounted advance, that reward deliberate shooting. It suits collectors and photographers wanting a distinctive mechanical rangefinder, and the fast Nokton is well regarded. The limits are a small, dim rangefinder patch on the original, fiddly lens changes, and a closed proprietary mount.

As a leaf-shutter system, check the shutter fires at all speeds and the slow speeds are not sluggish from old lubricant, and that the aperture blades are clean. Verify the rangefinder patch is visible and correctly aligned both vertically and horizontally, since a faint or misaligned patch is common with age. Inspect the bayonet for wear. It is fully mechanical with no battery, and Prominent lenses are hard to adapt to other bodies.