On March 1 Noktor will launch the fastest Lens for Micro 4/3rds.
Do not confuse this lens with the Leica Noctilux or Voigtländer Nokton.
Keep following us. We will update you with every info we will receive about the lens!
This is what we know for now about the lens:
With a maximum aperture of F/0.95, the Noktor Hyperprime is the fastest lens designed for Micro Four Thirds cameras. At open aperture, the lens renders pictures and video with extreme shallow depth of field for a unique aesthetic.
In low-light photography and cinematography, the lens exceeds the perception of the human eye. From nightscapes to campfires, now you can shoot in situations that are often impossible to capture with a normal lens.
Technical Specifications
Focal Length 50mm
Maximum Aperture F0.95
Minimum Aperture F16
Autofocus No
Internal Focusing No
Rear Focusing Yes
Minimum Focus Distance 1.9 ft. (0.6m)
Angle of View 23°
Lens (Elements) 8
Lens (Groups) 7
Dimensions 2.9×2.1 in.
Weight (480g)
Mount Type Micro Four Thirds
Accepts Filter Type Screw-on
Filter Size 62mm
16 Responses
But I guess this lens is auto-nothing. Not so enthusing, if right…
Is it a 50mm or 50mm “equivalent” (25mm)?
@admin: You can post that steve huff from stevehuffphoto.com gets this lens at Tuesday and is testing it for us. So we will see soon if it is worth the money. I think that would be very interesting for every one at this forum. Greets Ole
Ho Ole! of course I will link to the Steve Hiffs website! I like him 🙂
Likely nothing more than a re-branded Senko ADL VFA5095H (http://www.senkoadl.com/factory.php) lens with an m4/3 adapter on it. For sure it’s auto-nothing, which by itself is not a huge issue for the format, but I for one would like to see a head-to-head comparison of results with the Leica or CV fast lenses they keep mentioning as ‘competition’. Some of the CCTV lenses are quite good, others not so much.
What about the price? Anybody know it?
Congrats to Micro FourThirds Rumors for once again proving the doubters wrong! When you first broke this there were more than a few screaming “Fake!”
It hurts to even think about how much this thing would cost, lol. I’d like to pretend it doesn’t exist so I won’t be tempted >_<
Really? Designed for m4/3? They are not on the list of supporting companies: http://www.four-thirds.org/en/contact/group.html
I doubt this lens will have any in body lens correction.
Still, I hope it performs well, a full manual ‘legacy’ lens designed for m4/3 mount hopefully will jump start m4/3 lenses from the larger manufacturers, ie Sigma Voigtlander, etc.
I don’t mind manual focus with m4/3’s, but I’d want a natively designed m4/3’s lens with electron contacts to know when the focus ring is being turned so the 7x focus mode will be automatically triggered. This lens just doesn’t excite me at all. It looks like a retrofitted Senko, not a lens designed to cover the 4/3’s image circle. We might as well just use the Voitlander Nokton f/1.1 an m-mount adapter.
With a 62mm filter size this sounds like a bit more than a rebadged C-mount lens.
I for one am looking forward to seeing and possibly buying this lens.
With that price for a CCTV lens with m43 adapter, I can get Contax Carl Zeiss 85/1.4 or Nokton 50/1.1 or Voigtlander 35/1.4. all those are cheaper or similar pricing, I don’t think it would be a nice deal with the price over US$200 for that. But it do have a good implication which m4/3 seems like a system that giving more opportunities to other lens manufacturer.
that HUGE engrave “NOKTOR 0.95 | 50mm” on the exterior looks so corny. 🙁
but i hope the image quality is good though.
OK…
I don’t mean to be negative …I am a gadget nut and been shooting for about 40 years.
UM…I have a GF1…. Is anyone really expecting to fine focus a .95 lens on the LCD screen on the back of the camera on the fly?
Good luck. Well… maybe with the manual, zoom focus feature on the GF1…but still….what if the sun is out or something? LOL!
I use my GF1 on the street..and pretty much exclusively with the LVF so I can do some…”work”… seriously. I personally NEED a viewfinder.
With the LVF (which is great for its intended purpose…to frame and shoot on the fly) you definitely won’t be fine focusing the ole Noktor.
….and besides…what serious optical company (or is that just a back bedroom @ a house somewhere in Georgia :-))….would put a light-colored securing ring against the glass at the front of the lens…(um…can you say ..potential for flare?).
I am not a company man…but at that price…I think I will be purchasing the Leica 45mm 2.8 Macro (with it’s faults)…That lens is much more suited for the GF1, with its vid screens. It has auto-focus, shallow depth of field, sharpness AND macro capability… You get a LOT more for the (eeks) $900.00.
…I won’t be looking thru a Noktor as I keep my eyes on the Micro 4/3 horizon to see what comes next…cause…it just may be out of focus.
…Addendum to my above post…after doing a little more reading I see that the Noktor will not allow you to use the GF1’s manual-focus zoom feature…there are no electrical contacts on the Noktor ….so it does not communicate with the camera in any way. For a GF1…at that price…I think the lens is dead in the water….but hey…that is just the way I see it.
Maybe on the G1, GH1 or the Oly EP1, 2 etc..as the viewfinders are better…but I do not have any working knowledge of those cameras.
Minimum Focus Distance 1.9 ft. (0.6m)
…and at what distance does infinity starts?