FAST 50mm FOR M9

[Armanius]

Great buy there Godfrey. Hopefully Moonshine picked up one as well. I've had my Nokton 50/1.5 for a while now. Currently, I also have the Nokton Skopar 50/2.5 and the Zeiss Planar 50. Contemplating about picking up a 50 Summilux ASPH (as soon as I sell one of my kidneys off at Fred Miranda). I love 50mm!

Anyhow, here's a pic with the Nokton 50/1.5. Having also used the Nokton 50/1.1 in the past, the 50/1.5 is a much better performer at or around 1.5 than the 1.1.


Bokeh of the Voigtlander Nokton 50/1.5 by Armanius, on Flickr

Here's a Nokton 50/1.5 review with a couple of comparisons against the Summilux ASPH.

Voigtlander Nokton 50 1.5 Lens Review | STEVE HUFF PHOTOS

 

[Godfrey]

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Another "sleeper" I think, is the Nokton 40mm. It's wicked sharp and renders nicely. It's like a slightly wider, slightly faster Nokton 1.5, but natively M.

+1 ... The Nokton 40 is one of my most used lenses, on both GXR and Leica M. It's a terrific piece.

With luck, my 50/1.5 will be here today or tomorrow.

 

[Godfrey]

Nice portrait, and thanks for the link to Steve Huff's page!

I also have the Skopar 50/2.5 ... a very sweet and very compact lens. I'm now at the point of way too many lenses compared to how much time I have to spend making photographs. Sigh.

 

[Armanius]

Nice portrait, and thanks for the link to Steve Huff's page!

I also have the Skopar 50/2.5 ... a very sweet and very compact lens. I'm now at the point of way too many lenses compared to how much time I have to spend making photographs. Sigh.

I hear ya! I ended up returning the Zeiss Planar so that I can justify getting a Lux. I figure that I might as well give it a run, even though from the review at Steve Huff's site, I didn't see much of a difference between the Nokton 50/1.5 and the 50 Lux.

 

[Godfrey]

Nokton 50/1.5 arrived this morning. It is smaller and lighter than I had expected.. very nice!

I have no time to experiment with it until this evening.
I'll mount it on the M9 and see what it does for the next week and some.

 

[Godfrey]

Two quickie exposures this evening ... Nothing special, just snaps of Felipe in my office just before the sun went down. Both at f/1.5 ...

Lovely lens, it has a lovely presence.
Well worth the money!

 

[Armanius]

Glad you are enjoying your Nokton 50/1.5 Godfrey! IMO, the 50/1.5 just simply can't be beat in terms of price/performance ratio.

 

[Moonshine]

I still haven't found a nice used nokton 1.5...one of these days..

Godfrey congrats!! your pics are lovely!

 

[Godfrey]

I still haven't found a nice used nokton 1.5...one of these days..

Godfrey congrats!! your pics are lovely!

Thanks!

It's worth chasing one down or coughing up the money for a new one, while they're still available new.

 

[Armanius]

I still haven't found a nice used nokton 1.5...one of these days..

Godfrey congrats!! your pics are lovely!

I may sell mine Moonshine. I just got a 50 Lux. Still deciding on which one to keep though. To my eyes, the Nokton seems a tiny bit sharper than the 50 Lux. Just not as contrasty and the bokeh is not as creamy.

 

[Moonshine]

ok lmk if you do

 

[Moonshine]

Just bought the Nokton! Waiting for it to be shipped
Is the lens hood worth getting as I haven't got one yet?

 

[Double Negative]

Sweet! Congrats.

A lens hood is never a bad idea.

 

[Godfrey]

Just bought the Nokton! Waiting for it to be shipped
Is the lens hood worth getting as I haven't got one yet?

I've been using the standard short hood. The deeper, full hood is probably a plus, but it's a touch on the pricey side if you buy the Voigtländer original. I haven't found it to be terribly necessary.

It's a standard 52mm filter thread so it should also be easy to obtain any number of quality aftermarket threaded metal lens hoods. I probably have a couple of them in my 'miscellaneous hoods and caps' box.

(For the M9, a standard 50mm normal hood will work nicely. For an APS-C camera, I'd use a B&W or similar short tele hood.)

 

[Armanius]

Just bought the Nokton! Waiting for it to be shipped
Is the lens hood worth getting as I haven't got one yet?

Congrats!!!

I haven't had much of a glare issue with the Nokton 50/1.5. So I would hold off on buying the hood, and just use the short screw-on hood. The lens cap goes over the screw-on hood, so you'll likely be keeping the short screw-on hood on all the time.

 

[Moonshine]

Got it. Thx! I'll be using it on a m9 so wanted to know what you code it in (manually) as?
Thanks!

 

[sirimiri]

I had originally coded the Nokton 50mm f/1.5 as the Summilux 50 pre-aspherical and regret it, as it overcorrects the vignetting at certain apertures and anything with a uniform tone, such as skies, look pretty bad.

For the time being, I leave it uncoded.

 

[Godfrey]

Got it. Thx! I'll be using it on a m9 so wanted to know what you code it in (manually) as?

I've been using 11891-11892 (Summilux-M 50mm 1.4 ASPH) with good results.

G

 

[Armanius]

I use it as 50 Lux-Asph. Sometimes, I use it as the pre-asph version.

 

[magosak]

... snip ....
Lovely lens, it has a lovely presence.
Well worth the money!

Godfrey, I look forward to hearing your more detailed impressions.

I am considering to buy one. Where did you get yours?