Nokton 25mm F0.95 arrived! Shots at night wide open on GH1

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Mike Kobal

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Hi guys,
I am really excited about this lens. The built quality is superb, the focusing ring is superb, and it focuses from infinity down to 1:3.9! This will make for a killer combo on the GH2! Got it at 7pm ran out and shot a few clips, direct link w tech info here, let me know what you think
http://www.mikekobal.com/blog/?p=803
just uploaded, street photos here
http://www.mikekobal.com/blog/?p=830
Central Park daylight video sample shot @ 1.4 tech info here
http://www.mikekobal.com/blog/?p=857
still very impressed with this lens.
let me know what you think.
cheers,
Mike
 
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Hi Mike, were you get it from and what you pay for it? Camera quest?

Is that GH1 hacked?
 
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thanks hhl and biginvegas. Not hacked anymore had problems and went back to standard firmware. Yup, Cameraquest
 
apart from wrong Wb what ISO setting did you use? I can get similar stuff with the pancake 20mm-1.7 but I have to go high on ISO, so I am interested in the gain on ISO mostly.
 
sodium-vapor lamps, timbook2 - there is no perfect filtration -going all the way down in color temp manually didn't look any better and of course that's very subjective, I like the way this looks. I use the 20mm and really like it, esp if af is required, focus pull manually is difficult, almost impossible,this was shot at ISO 320

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apart from wrong Wb what ISO setting did you use? I can get similar stuff with the pancake 20mm-1.7 but I have to go high on ISO, so I am interested in the gain on ISO mostly.
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how the hell did you get one of these Mike? that's what amazes me, they haven't gone on sale yet

there you go again mike, making waves
 
Mike Kobal said:
hey J Davis, they have but you had to pre-order, sold out right away
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don't get me wrong, I'm not wanting to buy one.

so are you going to put ND's on it and open her up on some models, daylight?
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if I'm not mistaken this is now the fastest wide ever, right?
 
@J Davis, exactly, to keep the background blurry, I will put my vari filter on it and shoot wide open or 1.4 or 2. it is the fastest normal lens right now(reg viewing angle, not a wide angle) the 0.95 is a bit deceiving, if you would want a comparable set up on the 5d you would use the Zeiss 50mm 2.0 , the 25mm .95 on m43 (1/2 chip size of 35mm chip) behaves like a 50mm 1.9 on a 35mm chip.
 
how many blades on the iris? 9? I'm guessing. look forward to what you do with it.
even though the angle of view matches a 50mm on 5d, the dof difference is still 1 stop isn't it?
 
I like what I see.

Thanks for posting this, I have been looking for test footage and you are one of the first to have some posted.

Please give us more if you have the time.
 
Mike Kobal said:
sodium-vapor lamps, timbook2 - there is no perfect filtration -going all the way down in color temp manually didn't look any better and of course that's very subjective, I like the way this looks. I use the 20mm and really like it, esp if af is required, focus pull manually is difficult, almost impossible,this was shot at ISO 320
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OK those lamps are impossible to WB so no wrong WB I agree :-) ISO 320 is excellent! I have to shoot a lot at night and although I preordered in Sept in Germany I have not heard back from them since Oct....
 
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