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The new Nokton 10,5mm MFT lens got a price and shipping date in Europe: It costs 1149 Euro and will ship in Juni at [shoplink 53620 ebay]FotoMundus (Click here)[/shoplink]. It’s also priced at $1.445,00 in Japan at [shoplink 53614 ebay]Taku (Click here)[/shoplink].
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So which to buy, this or the Kowa? I know the Kowa is wider but it’s also more than two stops slower. Maybe overall image quality will be the deciding factor.
I’m going Nokton this minute, still trying to get Kowa directly from China since EU price is real pain…
Voigt over Kowa all day every day.
Gotta say Voigtlander
Based on what I read on www:
Both very well built, both perform very well, both need more reviews. IQ as deciding factor might not point in any direction. The main differences are f-stop and FOV, so I’d just ask myself: buy the fast one or buy the wide one?
I wish Voigtländer would give us contact pins for EXIF data, it would also allow IBIS to work correctly without fiddling with settings.
That would be nice, but it’s not a reality.
I use a free Lightroom plug-in called LensTagger that allows me to create lens profiles for all my non-electronic manual lenses and add them to the EXIF data in my photos. If I know the f-stop I used, I can add that, too. It does batch processing. Not a perfect solution, but a solution nonetheless.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll check it out.
That is sweet when the electronics are there. I had a Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 for my FF Kit and just having a focus area with focus confirmation was really, really nice. I guess Cosina is a small company…they are hand building the lenses and I guess that adding the electronics would put the lenses way up in price. They are still great photo tools though, even with the caveats!
Right, and Zeiss already does that with their otherwise manual Loxia lenses for Sony. AF is something I would still be missing with those Voigtländers, though, too. I do shoot with manual lenses frequently, but when I do, I still feel it difficult to quickly and precisely find focus without fiddling with both zoom-in and focus peaking, even though the E-M1 finder is one of the best EVFs I’ve seen so far (it would help a bit, though, if focus peaking wasn’t switched off by half-pressing the shutter release).
I think it’s a great thing what Voigtländer/Cosina have achieved with their 0.95 lenses and an extremely valuable addition to the M43 lineup. But personally, I’ll probably wait for those f/1.0 lenses Olympus is rumored to be preparing. It will be interesting to see how they’ll look in image quality and price compared to the Voigtländers, if and when they’ll come out. Until then I’ll be having fun with manual legacy lenses and the Speed Booster – and the venerable ZD 11-22/2.8-3.5 has to cover my wideangle needs…
You should try the way Panasonic bodies like the GH and GX7 handle manual focus. It’s very straightforward and intuitive and a pleasure to use. It’s the closet thing to my film cameras I’ve found… dead simple.
Press the rear Control Wheel to activate magnified view, rotate to zoom in/out. Press again, or half-press the shutter release, to escape. Focus peaking can just be left on. Shooting in M mode, activate Constant Preview for full-time live-view with no buttons to press. For me it was a revelation!
If the Pana Nocticron is anything to go by, the price for those Oly f/1 lenses will be in that same range.
Probably more.
Subtracting that f0.2 will cost a bundle. And the Oly tax… ?
Think about price differences between f1.4 and f1.2 lenses.
This price is much more realistic compared to the eBay price gouging of the other day.
Yes, I expected it to be more expensive, but it’s the same price as the 17.5mm.
??? You can buy a Nokton 17.5 on eBay new for under $900, (South Korea, free shipping). .???
That would make the 10.5 mm $500 more.
I do expect the 10.5mm to cost more, …but that price will come down after introduction.
I tried to compare prices in shops where both 17.5 and 10.5 were listed, in Europe, where prices are usually a bit unfair. But I saw the same price for both, usually 1.149 euros.
Hmmmm…world prices are wacky, especially in Europe…but so often they make no sense to me…but sometimes I think the currency exchange rate of that moment are at work with certain price disparities…
Consider the exchange. Then add the 21% in taxes and here you have the Italian price..
Fly to New York and buy one from CameraQuest.com.
Free shipping, no tax and a free B+W filter to boot.
You’ll pay for the flight that way… almost ?
I can pre order one from Japan for $1235…free shipping to the US..
I am on the fence about it right now…hmmm….
Lets hope the Euro falls in value….
Europa price isn’t determinated.. according official site voigtlander.