Noktor HyperPrime 50mm f/0.95

[Ex3]

What do u guys think?
It might be nice competition to nokton 50 1.1

http://leicarumors.com/2011/08/02/noktor-hyperprime-50mm-f0-95-lens-with-leica-m-mount-currently-in-testing.aspx/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LeicaRumors+%28LeicaRumors.com%29&utm_content=FaceBook

 

[jsrockit]

Shocked it took this long to have a thread on this. I'm not too excited about this lens...perhaps after I see some examples and see some reviews I'll care more. Nice to see another company making M lenses.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I hope they change the find-me-afar-in-the-thickest-of-fogs color for the market.

 

[PatrickONeill]

its dead-on-arrival to me if the focus throw is going to go the "wrong way"

in my mind, you can't compare this lens to the ƒ.95 Noctilux. I bet is could be a stand-in for the old canon 50mm ƒ.95.

I'm sure the CV Nokton ƒ1.1 will hold its own against this lens.. but time will tell.

I'll be surprised if the lens even makes it to market.

 

[PatrickCheung]

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/noktor/index.htm

I found this while googling "noktor" when I found out about this lens (for m4/3 mount, not M) about a month or two ago. I'm not sure if he's just being silly old ken again... but some of the evidence he piled up seems rather... convincing. However, the one thing that I can't find any link from Noktor to GoYo on the Noktor site which Ken claims there is. But the GoYo 50/0.95 product sheet he posted shows a drawing of a lens which looks exactly like the Noktor.

If Ken is right, people just payed double for the Noktor than if they were to buy a GoYo and a C-Mount adapter. 🙁

Oh, and it's not just Ken who's come up with these suspicions. A quick google search of "GoYo Noktor" will lead to a few other postings about the GoYo and Noktor being the same lens.

 

[PatrickONeill]

you know, I think Ken may be actually 100% correct in his assessment.

did I just say that?

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

you know, I think Ken may be actually 100% correct in his assessment.

did I just say that?

Just like with shooting-from-the-hip, after a while, a dead-on is bound to happen! 😉

 

[porktaco]

isn't this a CCTV lens?

 

[raid]

Would we have to sell off a car or a something else to buy this lens?

 

[efix]

I'll be surprised if the lens even makes it to market.

Oh, it will. So far, SLR magic have kept their promises.

 

[Thardy]

Would we have to sell off a car or a something else to buy this lens?

I would guess that it would cost less than the Nokton 1.1, but then you never know.

 

[Thardy]

you know, I think Ken may be actually 100% correct in his assessment.

did I just say that?

His info is out of date. See stevehuffphoto.com for current information about the lens. It covers 35mm frame and will come in Leica M mount.

 

[N.delaRua]

Since we already have a feeling it will be pretty lousy wide open, I really think it might make for some really interesting results shooting with some high speed TMAX or Illford 3200... Just trying to think positively about something everyone is so skeptical about.

 

[LeicaFan]

I saw an article about this on the Steve Huff website, yesterday. I'm guessing that this lens will be priced around $1,500-2,000. If it's anything like the m4/3 version, it will be very soft and dreamy wide open, but unlike the Noctilux f/1, it will have unpleasing OOF areas.

Hopefully they get rid of that stupid green ring around the front element.

 

[ampguy]

has anyone tried either the APS-C version of this, or the e-mount 28/2.8?

Their earlier lens were CCTV lens with native mounts attached. Then they acquired the Noktor 50/0.95, but I think that lens was an off the shelf CCTV lens with m4/3 mount attached.

 

[PatrickCheung]

I wonder how much it'll cost in M-mount. It worked on a m4/3 camera because you could focus it with the screen. It would have to be rangefinder coupled inorder to work on an M... unless we're buying a f0.95 scalefocus lens, which sounds stupid.

If they're making it for the M mount then I hope they're not just re-modelling a C-mount lens (which is only worth about $450-500)...

 

[jsrockit]

It would have to be rangefinder coupled inorder to work on an M... unless we're buying a f0.95 scalefocus lens, which sounds stupid.

What makes you think it wouldn't be rangefinder coupled?

 

[PatrickCheung]

There was a run of the Noktor for M4/3 cameras that was essentially a $500 GoYo C-mount lens with a built in C-m4/3 adapter, it didn't need to be rangefinder coupled or anything! That lens sold for $700... I'm wondering how much it'd have to sell for if they had to make it rangefinder coupled!

 

[jsrockit]

I'm wondering how much it'd have to sell for if they had to make it rangefinder coupled!

Is rangefinder coupling an expensive thing to add to a lens or is it just a different mount? I expect the lens to be priced very near the Nokton 1.1.

 

[EthanFrank]

Is rangefinder coupling an expensive thing to add to a lens or is it just a different mount? I expect the lens to be priced very near the Nokton 1.1.

If they do price it near the 1.1, I don't see it faring too well.