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Voigtlander Nokton 10.5 mm f/0.95

18 July 2015
Arkadiusz Olech

11. Summary



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Pros:
  • very solid casing of excellent build quality,
  • good image quality in the very centre of the frame,
  • not especially bothersome lateral chromatic aberration,
  • moderate longitudinal chromatic aberration,
  • slight distortion,
  • very good f/0.95 aperture fastness while providing an ultra wide angle of view.

Cons:

  • weak image quality on the edge of the field of view,
  • huge vignetting,
  • monstrous coma,
  • high astigmatism,
  • visible spherical aberration,
  • significant field curvature,
  • ugly out of focus areas,
  • field of view over two degrees narrower than stated in the specifications,
  • weak price/optics quality ratio.

We hereby inform that an experiment entitled “ultra fast ultra wide-angle lens” ended with a failure. Nothing to add…