SLRmagic announced that the Noktor 50mm f/0.95 will be available for E-mount soon! Read the message on Twitter (Click here). The lens will be made in Japan (and with a new design). So we should expect a higher quality version compared to the Micro Four Thirds version. Do not confuse the Noktor with the [shoplink 6619 ebay]Nokton f/0.95[/shoplink] lens. The Nokton is made by Voigtländer!
P.S.: SLRmagic already made the [shoplink 3514 ebay]35mm f/1.7 lens for NEX on (Click here to see it on eBay)[/shoplink].
The website: http://www.noktor.com/
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Any one know if Sony is giving out the auto-focus spec’s for the nex yet? The Noktor could’ve been a perfect videolens for beginners. 🙂
video lens should be MF. AF is not good. lack of control and jumpy aperrure and focus
OMG !!!
That’s awesome! But I’m afraid I won’t be able to afford it 🙁
Very nice lens. What kind of price range will this be?
$1000.00 range?
Damn…it looks awesome.. but too pricy for my range.
If you read some m4/3 forums like dpreview you will find that this was shown to be absolute JUNK lens… no one buys it for m4/3 any more so they try to fool some NEX suckers before word gets out how terrible this lens is. Even though ‘Noctor’ sounds like it would be some famous name, it is not…
Buyer beware!
I think SLR Magic mean ‘budget’
Not in this case. I read in Flickr that it would cost about $750 US dollars, and the website says $1000.
trust me, when no ppl buy it, they will lower the price, just like the 11-16mm f1.4 just for $129 now
its a different lens i think. they said that too. i looked at the sample images and the original version sample photos and new version are different. i think the newer one is better
I like the green inner ring design but the Niktor is way too big. For $1000, I don’t know…
Ken rockwell has a well put analisis on this company..
“…What they’ve done is take a security camera lens, change the mount to micro 4/3, and pimp it up so that it looks like the Second Coming of a cross among the LEICA NOCTILUX-M 50mm f/0.95 ASPH ($10,500), the Nikon NOCT-NIKKOR 58mm f/1.2 ($3,000) and the Zeiss Ultra Prime 50mm ($12,100)…”
I bought my noct-nikkor for $5k. Where can you find it so cheap? Is 3k mint copy with full packing? Many Noct-nikkor that is used comes very beat up as it is used under harsh situations with all the banging around by photojournalists. I came across 3 copies and two of them performed terribly. I also heard some of them had the elements replaced and not original
I can’t imagine they’d have “non original” elements, unless Nikon themselves replaced a lens element that was damaged somehow, and if they did it wouldn’t affect optical performance.
Heavily used an abused lenses can lose their collimation, but that can be fixed by taking it in for a service. For something as expensive as a Noct Nikkor, I’d say that would be a required expense.
Where’s the love for us A-mount users.
Amin, bro. Though i think that eventually we will get better lens from Zeiss or Sony will reproduce old Minolta’s lens like /2 or some G.
Lol the name noktor is soooooo misleading.
+1 with morgull
another news about noktor : http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2011/05/10/noktor-closes-its-doors/
if it is 1-2 hundred bucks, it is OK. 750 to 1000, I better go with Voigtlander. Noktor definitely not a lens of value.
Noktor 50mm f/0.95 is piece of crap!
Google it and read any review and you will see.
Do NOT buy it!
SlRmagic can’t help with it but only make it more expensive.
Do NOT buy it!
WTF 1000? sigh get lost
1000 USD is outrageous! Imagine how to 2nd hand value will be like. Once you paid 1000 USD, the value of this thing would becomes 300 USD!
Haha, I paid like $1000 for my EP-2 and now it is worth 0. At leat for this lens it retain value
Actually I have been looking for a used Noktor for quite some time. Prices are between $800-980. The price holds pretty well =( good for people who have one. bad for people who wants to buy one fore cheap
DO NOT BUY the c-mount version!!! i bought one and it cannot focus at all. i rather buy one that is suited for m43rds or e-mount. I bought one on ebay for $680 and it does not work on camera! I cannot return it now as the seller said there is nothing wrong with the lens. I wasted $680 on a lens i cannot use so buyers beware! get one that fit for your camera for sure and do not make the mistake i made!
he he:>
Just got a mint Voigtlaender NoktoN 50/1.1 for 800, which after the 40/1.4 35/1.2 and 28/1.9 fills my ultrafast lust, hopefully.
Anyway, this Noktor, originally a C-Mount lens is in my opinion never worth 1000 dolars. A year ago, I managed to buy a senko 25/0.95 for my oly EP1 as I didn’t have my NEX yet. That Cmount lens cost me around 500 dolars and I sure wouldn’t be willing to pay more for a c mount anymore. Eventhough the pictures from the Senko had the best and liveliest color (thanks to the large opening) I had ever seen, it was not very usable. Because all the c mounts are good only in the centre and it had vignettation. So I sold it.
Then I had the Nokton 25/0.95 for a while, which was briliant, sharp, had even better color on the m4/3, but I got my nex, so I didn’t want a lens that vignetted on it. So I returned the Nokton, and went for the FF Noktons instead.
In either case, the colors were great with both large-hole lenses, but I would only go for a lens, that was build for a particular sensor size or bigger, NOT SMALLER. And this case, the Noktor IS A C MOUNT LENS constructed to cover only a small sensor like 2/3″ or 1″. It never gets to deliver a quality light circle for the 23*17mm sensor like the APSc NEX.
So NO WAY!
If you want 0.95 buy the 25/0.95 and live with the dark corners. Outside of these, you will get a high quality light covering the sensor. Not that junk light that comes from the C mount lens. (However a 25mm lens’ perspective is not on par with a 35 or 50mm, wo you’ll get a wideanglish view… :<
where did you buy for $500? Is it new? I found a new one for 900 but it does not it in my c adapter. i tried three kinds already. Which adapter i need to buy to use the lens? thx for the advise!
So how is the genuine NoktoN 50/1.1?
Is it this a Korean company?
Normally Koreans companies are very good at using other brands name, changing one letter, then try to screw the suckers.
Chinese, the company is well known for taking cheap C-mount lenses, re-badging them and selling 3x more expensive, for instance the chinese C-mount lens Fujian 35/1.7, and many others :).
On http://www.noktor.com/faq.php you can get this giving you all the information how it’ll work with APS-C-sensors:
Does the lens cover the whole sensor, and is there any vignetting?
Yes, the lens covers the entire m4/3 sensor, and does not produce any vignetting.
Sorry, I bought the 50/1.1 only yesterday, so I have to wait, till it gets from Australia to the EU.
I had the senko 25/0.95 from some security electronics shop from the US. It cost me 485 USD + our local VAT and customs fee. I don’t care about the price now, since it had black corners on my EP1 and even bigger corners on the NEX. So, if Cmount, then 35mm and longer… :>
I allready have the rokkor 58/1.2, so I’m pretty curious, if the nokton or the rokkor stays.
Fantastic