{"id":8052,"date":"2010-03-10T23:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.co.uk\/?p=8052"},"modified":"2010-08-07T20:09:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T18:09:13","slug":"review-of-noktor-f0-95-hyperprime-50mm-lens-for-micro-four-thirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/review-of-noktor-f0-95-hyperprime-50mm-lens-for-micro-four-thirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Noktor F0.95 Hyperprime 50mm lens for Micro Four Thirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was contacted by Noktor <\/a>if I was interested in reviewing this lens for the micro 4\/3 system. Naturally I jumped at the chance. Although being away from home I don’t have all my gear. My GH1 is at home but I have my GF1 with me. Not ideal as not as good at video at all, but still usable.<\/p>\n

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Ever since the lens arrived it has lived on my GF1 and the GF1 has lived in my man bag! It’s such a fun lens to shoot with.<\/p>\n

Of course being 50mm on a micro four thirds give it an equivalent field of view of what you would get with a 100mm on a 5dmkII, so it’s not a very wide lens. Much more of a portrait lens which is not a bad thing at all.<\/p>\n

First off for a lens this fast….it’s cheap. It is retailing for $750. For a lens this fast you would normally have to pay a lot more.<\/p>\n

Wide open obviously it isn’t super sharp, it’s what I would call soft focus dreamy, stop down to F1.4 and it’s surprisingly sharp.<\/p>\n

It has a minimal focus distance of 0.6m, a filter size of 62mm and 8 aperture blades. I noticed that when stopped down a little the bokeh\u00a0was hexagonal in shape but wide open was circular. Apart from from the edges which where more half moon. I actually was actually quite partial to this look…Check out these stills I took with camera below. Some are wide open, some are stopped down…<\/p>\n

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