CV Nokton 1.5/50 vs Zeiss ZM Sonnar 1.5/50

CV Nokton 1.5/50 vs Zeiss ZM Sonnar 1.5/50

  • CV Nokton 1.5/50

    Votes: 152 41.3%

  • Zeiss ZM Sonnar 1.5/50

    Votes: 216 58.7%
  • Total voters
    368
I'm going to have to go with the Sonnar (though I haven't used the Nokton extensively):

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A couple more with the Nokton from the SFMOMA, Freestyle Legacy Pro 400 film, I think both were shot at 1.5, maybe f/2.





But I haven't tried the Zeiss. I don't see a need to, I've been quite happy with the CV.
 
alexnotalex said:
Not entirely sure about my Nokton results... seems a bit wibbly wobbly... very different from my old sonnar. I need to practise, and look at Helen's flickr again...
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GORGEOUS Shot...man w/ baby !!!
Alex, it Looks like you have a Lovely Nokton Lens
Beautifully Sharp & with a Lush Glow
Congrats and Thx for the Mention ....😀
Best- H
 
I just bought a VC Nokton f1.5/ 50mm LTM lens today.......all original in the box with caps hood, VC screw to M adapter etc. Looking forward to seeing what it will do on my M6 and M8, hoping for some smooth boken, I have NEVER used one before, I'll post some samples here after I shoot!

Tom
 
JSU said:
It's not a Canon LTM 50/1.2, which is both good and bad, which is why both exist.

Get some slow film (KB-25 perhaps) and shoot the Nokton in open shade wide open. It will be sharper with a touch more contrast than the Canon but the background (and for that matter, also the foreground) will likewise also differentiate. Enjoy!! 😉
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See, maybe that's good....while the Canon f1.2/ 50mm is one of my favorite lenses, but I also wanted something else that is Leicaisque/Somewhat cross between a Summarit and a Ver 2 Summilux 50mm lens, the Nokton might just do that? ~ Though I am a BIG vintage Canon LTM/M39 fan and I always shoot very slow ASA's when doing my PinUp's 🙂

Time will tell if this new lens jives.......

Tom
 
I don't shoot 50mm very often, so I want to keep only one lens. Right now I have a Canon 50/1.8 LTM, Canon 50/0.95 and a C-Sonnar, and might buy a friend's 50/1.5 Nokton. I used to have a Nokton, it was my first RF lens, but sold it last year because I'd usually take the 50/1.8 out instead.

Pretty hard task to decide which will be the keeper, but I'm between the Nokton (sharper wide open, reliable but the onion rings bokeh doesn't please me much) and the C-Sonnar (lovely bokeh, tiny, but has a bit of focus shift and it's quite softer wide open). Both have some highlight aberrations in blue that the Canons surprisingly (at least to me, that is) do not show... which is not helping me make my mind! I'm considering taking the Nokton to a tech along with the instructions for the close focus mod and see if he'd do it for me... I have zero tech skills to do it myself and having a close focus 50/1.5 would be really sweet.
 
Not to make your decision even more difficult, the ZM Planar does not exhibit the purple/highlight fringing as severely as the Nokton or C-Sonnar, 0.7m minimal focus distance. 😉


umcelinho said:
I don't shoot 50mm very often, so I want to keep only one lens. Right now I have a Canon 50/1.8 LTM, Canon 50/0.95 and a C-Sonnar, and might buy a friend's 50/1.5 Nokton. I used to have a Nokton, it was my first RF lens, but sold it last year because I'd usually take the 50/1.8 out instead.

Pretty hard task to decide which will be the keeper, but I'm between the Nokton (sharper wide open, reliable but the onion rings bokeh doesn't please me much) and the C-Sonnar (lovely bokeh, tiny, but has a bit of focus shift and it's quite softer wide open). Both have some highlight aberrations in blue that the Canons surprisingly (at least to me, that is) do not show... which is not helping me make my mind! I'm considering taking the Nokton to a tech along with the instructions for the close focus mod and see if he'd do it for me... I have zero tech skills to do it myself and having a close focus 50/1.5 would be really sweet.
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The Planar is a really tempting lens, and for sure an extremely reliable one, but I find myself shooting in low light a lot (in fact was the reason I found rangefinders), so the lesser stop would be missed..

I'll have to compromise one thing, and looks like it will be sharpness. Ive shot a roll with the c-sonnar and am really pleased with the outcome. it's sharp enough 🙂
 
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