Mike Kobal posted a new set of image samples taken at f/0.95 aperture only! (http://www.mikekobal.com/blog/?p=869). Those are very nice and sharp images! It has much better results than my [shoplink 15629]Noktor 50mm f/0.95[/shoplink] 🙂
Soundimageplus posted the first part of his [shoplink 15659]Voigtländer 25mm f/0.95[/shoplink] review and those are some of their key findings:
– I was concerned that I may have problems focusing at f/0.95 but these fears proved unfounded.
– This lens focuses to just over 6″ or 17 CM. This is INCREDIBLY useful.
– The Bokeh is “Incredible“.
– I’ve detected very little CA and fringing
I just checked eBay again and there are [shoplink 15659]Voigtländer Nokton 25mm f/0.95 [/shoplink]three shops from Hong Kong and Germany selling the lens (Click here)[/shoplink]. Worldwide shipment!
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honestly that looks terrible
seriously they need to start making lenses that actually adhere to the format
the bokeh is incredible?
Common! you can see that every out of focus “highlight” is emphasized by a projector with this lens!
It’s hard to tell much by those pics. It seems like he missed focus on almost all of them. Here’s a link to his Flickr Photostream, it’s easier to view the pics here than in that little flash gallery he embedded on his blog:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42363616@N05/
I know he was just testing the lens out wide open to see what it could do, but this should serve as a lesson why f/1 is an aperture that should only be used when needed or when you have a very specific artistic intention that requires very shallow DOF. Most of these pics would be far better had they been shot at f/2 or f/2.8.
guys, what’s wrong with your vision? some of those shots are quite sharp, a few with motion blur – but c’mon, much better lens then old 55mm 1.2 or the 50mm .95, and we have to look at the bokeh in context of the format, it can’t hold up to shots from a 50mm 1.4 or 1.2 on a Canon 5D, still very impressive for a sensor 1/2 that size
Thanks for sharing! Now I just wish the lens were cheaper 😉
Mike, I think those shots are great! Some people are just used to looking at photos taken with P&S cameras where everything from 6 inches to infinity is in sharp focus. F/0.95 for MFT is awesome!
Very important!!
Look at this, the GH2 is tested by DPreview!!!!
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos60d/page11.asp
Noise reduction is much better then G2 and has about same level of detail!(in high ISO)
But pixelpeeping at lower ISO it’s about the same detail..
But with jpg it’s a different story…..
Panasonic provides announced the Lumix DMC-GF2 Mini 4 Thirds camera. Any simplified model with the corporation’s GF1, Panasonic GF2 inherits the same flat-body layout but with revised handle layout and touch-screen manage.
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