Voigtländer 35mm f/0.9 'Nokton' Review
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The Voigtländer 35mm f/0.9 'Nokton' lens for the Fuji X-mount system offers an impressive maximum aperture that is 25% brighter than F1, providing striking out of focus backgrounds and making it useful for shooting in the dark. It has a standard field of view and good build quality. However, it suffers from heavy focus breathing and purple fringing.
The Voigtländer 35mm f/0.9 'Nokton' lens for the Fuji X-mount system offers a maximum aperture that is 25% brighter than F1, providing striking out of focus backgrounds and making it useful for shooting in the dark. It has good build quality and handling, despite being over a pound in weight.
Pros
- Impressive maximum aperture
- Standard field of view
- Smooth and precise focus
- Good build quality
Cons
- Suffers from heavy focus breathing
- Lacks weather sealing
- Purple fringing on edges
- Broad flaring
The lens has good build quality and handling, despite being over a pound in weight. It offers smooth and precise focus, making it a fun lens to shoot with at F0.9.
The Voigtländer 35mm f/0.9 'Nokton' lens for the Fuji X-mount system is a manual lens with an electronic connection for exif information return to the camera. It offers a maximum aperture that is 25% brighter than F1, providing striking out of focus backgrounds and making it useful for shooting in the dark. Although it lacks weather sealing, the lens offers smooth and precise focus. The lens has good build quality and handling, despite being over a pound in weight. It features an aperture mechanism with 12 iris blades. In terms of image quality, it offers good sharpness, contrast, and a ton of purple fringing on edges, particularly at F0.9. When it comes to distortion and vignetting, it projects a small amount of barrel distortion and the images are quite dark at F0.9. It also handles bright lights well and can focus as close as 35 CM from the subject. However, it does suffer from purple fringing, broad flaring, and heavy focus breathing. Despite its idiosyncrasies and issues with color fringing, the kind of images it produces are addictively beautiful and lovely to handle, making it a fun lens to shoot with at F0.9.
Despite its idiosyncrasies and issues with color fringing, the kind of images it produces are addictively beautiful and lovely to handle.
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