Image courtesy: ePhotozine
ePhotozine is the first website who shared real world images of the new Voigtlander Nokton 10,5mm f/0.95 lens. They write:
We were able to take a number of sample photos with the lens, and were impressed by the straight edges, as well as the sharpness of the lens.
Can’t wait to buy this lens! Preorders should be up soon at BHphoto.
Image courtesy: ePhotozine
Panasonic preorders:
LX100 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at WexUK.
GM5 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at WexUK.
GM5 in red at Adorama.
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Olympus preorders:
Silver E-M1 body at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus. In Europe at Wex UK.
40-150mm f/2.8 PRO lens at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus. In Europe at Wex UK.
LH-76 lens hood at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
MC-14 1.4x teleconverter at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
PRF-ZD62 Z protection filter at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
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General links to all new Olympus stuff at Adorama.
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74 Responses
Wish I was an ultra-wide angle shooter. As it is, 12mm is as wide as I like to go, and that often is too wide. I am seriously looking at the Schneider Kreuznach 14mm as a replacement for my Oly 12mm for environmental portraiture work (including the background as an integral part of the background). I have no doubt this is THE weapon for landscape photographers and it is probably quite similar in performance to the Zeiss 21mm, a lens it was undoubtedly engineered to ape.
Quite similar to the Zeiss 21? I seriously doubt it. All else aside, extremely fast lenses are loaded with compromises – even the legendary 11000$ Noctilux. Slower lenses are usually better, smaller and cheaper.
I learned this way (the traditional way): need to get that shot in the dark? Use a tripod. Cannot / do not want to? Learn to light. Cannot light / do not want to schlep the lights? Get a camera with a proper sensor.
I understand what you’re saying. I am primarily talking about focal length equivalency and distortion correction (which Voigtlander and Zeiss do quite well.) The Voigtlander should be pretty soft at .95, but these lenses get quite sharp by f2/2.8. Both lenses are manufactured by Cosina in Japan, so build quality and quality control should be identical. The main thing Voigtlanders miss in comparison to Zeiss lenses is the *t coating, which is not a minor omission; though I find Voigtlanders’ color rendition nice, if not as punchy as the Zeiss lenses.
OMG i have a GAS ! First time i hear about this thing. ..the dream lens for stars photography !
Tempting… I hope it doesn’t produce halos around point lights (stars). If it doesn’t, count me in.
If you look at the sample image it has a ton of purple fringing around all bright points 🙁
True… this is why I love Samyangs for astrophotography :/
Also, purple fringing can be more pronounced on slightly missfocused objects. That being a super fast manual lens, it’s not hard to imagine that being the case here.
I don’t expect this to be good for astrophotography wide open. It’s probably got huge coma in the corners as well. All f/0.95 Voigts have that in common. It starts to be acceptable after closing down to f/2 or so.
Yes, in a way this is an extreme design and it’s probably not fair to expect that it comes without compromises. This is why I’m not easily swayed by low F-numbers because if the lens is only usable from F2 onwards, I might just as well use cheaper and sharper F2 lens.
Not only that, there isn’t a sharp point in the entire frame of any of these photos. Also, the NR looks like its turned up to 11.
As James pointed out, it seems to produce quite a lot of purple fringing. And we don’t know how fast that is minimized by closing down the aperture. If it can produce sharp images at f/1.2 or f/1.4, that’d still be amazing. Gonna have to wait for proper reviews.
Quick: someone attach this to a GM1
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Ok, great lens! Why can’ t CV just make a plain simple f2.0 MF lens, small and light. This large size just corrupts the m43 idea.
Thought the same. With that focal length many would be more than happy with a f2 lens.
Then buy the Rokinon…
Isn’t that the fisheye, or do they have a 10?
Rokinon recently announced a 10mm f/2.8 and have a 10mm t/3.1 cine lens, both with m4/3 mount.
And those two are the same lens, just with a different body. F2.8 and T3.1 are the same.
That lens is for APSC DSLRs. Meaning, it’s just as gigantic and the resolution may not be so great on the pixel-dense m43 sensor.
We still need a bit more choice in the UWA range in m43. 8/2.0 would be great for example.
Not really. If this lens were for 35mm it would most likely be even bigger. The size most likely reflects the diameter of the aperture. The idea behind m43 is not small size alone, and this lens is simply the one for the f0,95 job. Sometimes it’s simply physics that limit what you can do with light, not just engineering.
I see the “m43 idea” as being a diverse system capable of satisfying many different needs.
Having both the ability to decrease size to achieve pocketable setups, AND have a complete and diverse system capable of high end video and stills while still being smaller than competing APS-C and FF setups is a huge boon to the micro 4/3 system. We have tons of proprietary choices to satisfy both of those directions, and that is something no other system can really boast at this point in time.
… and dimension advantage of m4/3 lenses is even more visible now with the upcoming FE lenses such as 35/1.4. I really dont see Sonys point having compact bodies (A7x) and these big tubes lenses… Sometimes the difference between very good optics and suberb optics is only good for pros and result in too large lenses.
While I think there is a decent argument for size and weight reduction wherever you can get it, I do agree that a full frame system is going to need to be pretty big regardless, especially if you want fast, high quality optics. That’s fine, and I still really like the benefits that a full frame system offer, I just know that it will come with tradeoffs in size and weight, and that’s cool. Most any system, regardless of format offers enough to satisfy just about anyone for 99+% of what they may want to shoot. One system will do something better than the others, and will be lesser for other things. It then comes down to personal choices and preferences, which is what it is. Having the multitude of choices we do is pretty remarkable seeing where photography was even 10 years ago, and with a system like micro 4/3, I feel it does a lot, really well. While not the best in certain metrics or categories, it is a very mature system that can offer massive size reduction and fully capable IQ for most applications, making it, in my opinion, the most diverse system currently.
Yep I got the GM1 exactly for its small size – but I have what I’d call 2 “modes” of operation. I use the Voigtlander for photos of (relatively) still objects so I can manually focus in time, but for travel or faster moving objects, I like to keep it light with the Panasonic Leica 15mm… so to Tyson’s point, not one size fits all, really. Depends on what you want to do with it and our situation when using your camera…
… But at least there will be a 1.4 35mm on A7, when the only “premium” 35 mm equiv AF for m43 is “only” 1.8. Come on Pany, do something !
Yes, I still hope the rumored 9mm Olympus will soon be the not too fast not too heavy not too expensive ultra wide option.
They probably think they’ll make more money.
waiting for the price 🙂 this is the lens I’ve ben waiting for. Very wide, very fast. I don’t care about the size nearly as much as I care about the results.
“I dont care about the size nearly as much as I care about the results”….I wish that’s what she said.
i think it’s THE LENS OF THE YEAR!
awesome. Are the samples wide aperture?
Take a look at the CA (especially at the edges of the bag down left on the first picture). I would say these are wide open shots.
I do not believe that these pictures were shot wide-open. They seem to be quite sharp for 0.95 aperture ….
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This is a very interesting development… 🙂 From the initial samples, the distortion looks amazingly well controlled which would allow me to use this for interior and architectural work. The speed and width will also play well to astro. CA wide open is both livable and easily correctible for the few situations where you’d be shooting wide open where CA will be a major detractor I’d imagine, at least for me. Stopped down to f/1.2 I’m guessing CA will be much better, and at f/1.2 very useful for any extremely low light shooting scenarios. Distortion is far more concerning personally, and it looks to be well controlled…
Let’s keep fingers crossed that it stays in the same pricing neighborhood as the other Voigts at around $1K, otherwise I do think the Oly 7-14/2.8 (assuming it falls under $1200) will probably be a more logical choice for many, myself included.
Exciting times!
Distorsion on the 17.5mm is just perfect. So i’m not surprised about the 10.5mm samples.
The only personal experience I have with Voigtlander lenses is an EF 40mm f/2 which is amazing. I’ve heard nothing but great things about the m4/3 Voigts and with this one, I’m very excited as it fills a hole in the current lineup, but more than that offers a really unique, and seemingly high quality option in that ultra wide area.
My experience with the Voigtlander 17.5mm f/0.95 is like this: it looks badass, it feels badass, it IS badass!
Hi admin, where is updated Olympus lens roadmap. Or did I overlook it?
This lens focusses down to 16cm too, so some great creative scope here with subject/background juxtaposition 🙂
Large aperture wide always a problem for MFT users!! Like the 7-14mm f/4 or 9-18mm f/4-5.6!! So this is like a dream come true. Cos I do a lot of indoor steadicam videos. And I had so much trouble shooting lowlight at indoors. With the 7-14mm f/4 on the steadicam. I have to set the ISO pretty much at 3200-6400. Then the image doesn’t look good at all. I have been waiting for this kinda lens for so long. I hope its not too expensive!! 🙂
Why such high ISO?
How did you manage before?
Off topic, sorry, and I don’t know if already mentioned by someone: I updated the Em1 firmware and no 4k. As I was expecting. I’m leaving to Madagascar right now and haven’t tried the new features yet.
Say hello to my friends while you are there!
🙂
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I’m really missing a good UWA prime for m43, but this is too heavy and expensive. And maybe still not wide enough. Sure, f/.95 is awesome, but there’s no free lunch, as they say.
Seems like a really good one for video, though.
It’s ONLY for video since it doesn’t have AF !
learn how to manual focus!
As soon as they learn how to produce a lens with AF, i’ll learn how to manual focus because… I can’t yet… Oh dear.
There’s no need to focus… you’ll get some serious bokeh at f/0.95.
Still photograhy was invented with AF cameras in the 80’s for sure 😉
Yeah, you are right. The devil is inside progress.
Heck… Why are you even interested in this lens ? It is endlessly sharper than the lenses that were first invented.
Why are you even on internet ? On a website, displayed on a color-screen ? Did you know that you need electricity for that ?
Oh my… You are in trouble !
Wow….I bet this lens is a technically sound as it looks. This HAS to be the coolest looking MFT lens, bar none, to date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The images that ePhotozine shot do not post an f/stop???…should we assume that it is f/0.95. Afterall that is the story. Well..the lens is a 0.95!!!!! so I would expect fringing…and yeah…it looks like he had the NR on “smear” setting! LOL!
I would expect this on any lens at 0.95 to have flaws…Really want to see a review and get a price for this bad boy!!!! Also..would like to see it stopped down. Very nice surprise today!
The first shot had to be at .95 or close to it, since it was shot at ISO 200 and 1/200 in a pretty dark convention center. Looks surprisingly sharp, though there’s massive PF around the lights.
What about the oly 7-14/2.8 pro?
Was it shown at photokina?
That looks dead S E R I O U S!
Will be interesting to see this go head to head with the recently announced SLR magic.
Most likely no contest there, I bet my money on the Voiht……maybe a Zeiss could steal the prize tho?
Not necessarily. As someone who owned the 25mm from both companies. I found the SLR Magic to be more pleasing for video.
oh..well…you mean
More Pleasing=Softer ????
I am a still photographer….I can always soften later…but sharp capture cannot be faked.
No I don’t mean softer. The SLR Magic as unbelievable as it may sound was sharper wide open. The majority of shootouts online coming down in favor of the slr. I know because I owned the voigt first and did a ot of research before I picked up the slr.
This may….just may….be the biggest most unexpected most awesome Photokina announcement period. It’s so sexy that it’s making me question my manhood. If I can’t have it then no one else can. Here’s my wallet, just give me it now!
Ale, why do my posts keep disappearing after a few mins/hrs ?
To Pana and Oly fw developpers: It would be great if there was a possibility to save MF lens patterns, so that when we mount a MF lens, we would just select the pattern and the camera would set exif, IBIS, NR, colors and other specific parameters automatically.
Second this. I’ve been shooting exclusively with the old Olympus PEN-F and OM lenses, and have seen precisely this option on a friend’s Fuji X-T1. Would like to be able to fully customize the very nice quick menu’s options too.
Q menu customizable on the new Fuji X100T. Go figure. And rear pad buttons fully assignable. Hello Olympus? I adore my E-P5, but am wishing for some Fuji style Kaizen.
Exactly, just like you select focal length, you’d just tap on custom lens profile button.
I would’ve said “Take my money!!!” like some of you below, but alas Voigtlander has already taken my money for the 17.5mm earlier this year, and it is VERY good. Initially I was worried about handling on my tiny little Panasonic GM1 but it fits my hand perfectly. Voigts are superb.
More sample photos: http://www.optyczne.pl/7482-news-Voigtlander_Nokton_10.5_mm_f_0.95_-_pierwsze_zdjęcia.html
Those are some extreme lighting conditions, would be nice to see some photos taken outside.
OMG yes, I will have to sell some organs
Who wants to make some charitable donations to my bank account?
let me know when that works 🙂