This Voigtlaender thing is really a totally mixed bag. The Nokton 50/1.5 is for sure one of the best lenses I ever tried, maybe the best. The 35/1.4 was so disappointing, that it is hard to believe that it is from the same factory. I never had a lens that was worse. I recently purchased the Nokton 35/1.2, a lens that got highest praise and for me it is the most difficult lens I ever had in my hands. Don't know if I'll manage to get one decent shot from it.
Thats surprising your not getting along well with the 35mm f1.2. I've owned both it and the 50 Nokton and as good as the 50 was, the 35mm was even better. Very very smooth to focus, and just insanely sharp edge to edge.
Sadly it seems all the new VC lenses are sort of crap though. New 35mm f1.4 for example. Just doesn't hold a candle to the older ones like the 50 Nokton, 28mm f3.5 etc, all of which they discontinued for some reason.
The older 35mm f1.7 Ultron (also discontinued) is another one that was great.
Old 28mm f1.9 was totally better than the new 28mm f2.0 Ultron as well.
The 12 and 15mm's are about the only current VC lenses that actually seem a step in the right direction
Yeah, the Nokton 35/1.4 is definitely an acquired taste in the same vein as older Summiluxes. The 50/1.5 is great, although, as you can see in the water droplets in your first shot, color fringing and/or CA can drive me crazy with that lens.
douglasf13 wrote:
The 50/1.5 is great, although, as you can see in the water droplets in your first shot, color fringing and/or CA can drive me crazy with that lens.
oh, if you find that crazy, Douglas, I can post some shots with that lens, that are much much worse in terms of purple fringing
millsart wrote:
Thats surprising your not getting along well with the 35mm f1.2. I've owned both it and the 50 Nokton and as good as the 50 was, the 35mm was even better. Very very smooth to focus, and just insanely sharp edge to edge.
If this is what it should be (and it is what I expected) I possibly got a lemon and should send it to VL. Actually I had the impression that there is something wrong with the lens after the first shots.
I have a shot with some 100% crops even from the far corners in this very thread, probably around page 30 you can check out. My copy of the lens was as good in the corners as it was in the middle.
