That is a beats of a lens! The picture shows the Noktor 50mm f/0.95. But how good (or bad) performs the lens in the real world? Steve Huff (Click here to read the review) tested the lens on the new [shoplink 7207]Sony NEX-C3[/shoplink]. You can see many image smaples on his website and all I am going to report here is that the lens perfroms better than the m43 version fo the Noktor. Steve Huff is also giving away one lens for free!
You can get the current 28mm and 35mm lenses from SLR magic on [shoplink 8242 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. The Noktor is available on their homepage (Click here).
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Although I’m a big fan of fast lenses, I don’t like the results that much…
That lens, on that body, is simply ridiculous. I don’t know how good images have to be in order for someone to be willing to take such combo around. IMHO
You’ve obviously never had an old film camera with a zoom lens.
You’re right. Zooms are for beginners :p
Really? Such a comment… =/
It depends on what you mean for old film camera. Something before WWII? I have here a Dynax 505si with lenses, and it doesn’t look noway close to that unbalanced. But I understand that tastes may differ.
Pile of crap.
Buy yourself a Rokkor 58/1.2 instead. Better sharpness, way better bokeh and cheaper.
Damn right. I’ve got two 😉
This lens performs better than I would have anticipated. Still, I do not really feel inspired to let it replace my trusted ZM Sonnar 1.5/50. There’s too many issues with this lens, if you take a closer look…
Steve Huff is fair enough to mention SLR Magic is one of his site sponsors, so pointing the obvious softness wide open he stated the Noktor couldn’t compete against a Leica Noctilux as his worst critic. Of course it can’t. Watching his samples does already proof that. Looking forward to more scientific reviews I would expect this lens to be really interesting if it was at $300 up to $400 USD. I doubt it’s worth more. At least there’s competition on the market soon when Sony’s SEL-50F18 comes out, but I guess, I’ll stay with my Canon FD 50mm 1:1.4…
For the same money, buy the excellent Voigtlander Nokton 50mm 1.1 in Leica M Mount and use it on your NEX with an adapter.
This “Noktor Hyper-Prime” .95 doesn’t look very good. The bright yellow front ring can’t be good for performance. The image quality it produces is underwhelming. In M4/3 mount, this lens is complete crap.
Wow…
Same price as the future E-mount 24mm zeiss
Huff tried hard and did well. But those lens.. not even for video.
Cheap look – expensive lens …does not make sense
I doubt he’ll use this lens quite often in the future 😀
From my manual collection I know there’s so much more heavy glass needed already from f/1.8 to f/1.4 lenses and even more down to f/1.2. So instead of extremely fast lenses these days it’s more comfortable to go for a little higher ISO. That’s quite different since the analogue 36 exposures era.
It’s a movie lens, has smooth aperture wheel with no F-stop clicks and manual focus. Let’s use it for movies then:) And nothing beats it when it comes to Light Gathering powers.
A specialty movie lens – use accordingly. For daylight photogrpahy there are more compact, sharper and cheaper options.
360p?
Ho Ho Ho… 😀
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……………………. days to go orange777 annoucement! Cheers~
I want an hourly count down 🙂
U and ur count down stil… Hahaha
369 days to NEX 6!!!
Just look at the samples and tell me that this lens is worth that money? Seriously, i’ve bought this lens but if it cost about 30-70$. Waiting for rokkor 1.2