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Soon Panasonic will officially launch the new 42,5mm f/1.2 Nocticron Lens. But don’t expect it to be cheap! If you don’t care about not having AF than you may jump on the great [shoplink 41062 ebay]Voigtlander Nokton 42,5mm f/0.95 lens[/shoplink]!

DSLRmagazine (translation here) just published the full test results and in short these are their findings:
– The center of the image is very sharp at f/0.95 already.
– You will start to have a top performance of both center and corner sharpness at f/2.0 aperture.
– Vignetting is acceptable at f/0.95 and disappears from f/2.0 towards.
– There is almost zero distortion
– The overall performance has been improved compared to the first [shoplink 36580 ebay]Nokton 25mm lens[/shoplink].

There is another review of the lens at Admiringlight (Click here) and DSLRmagazine (translation here):

At smaller apertures, the Nokton 42.5mm is extremely sharp across the frame with great color and contrast. At wider apertures, there is a glow due to spherical aberration, though resolution is still relatively good. The spherical aberration becomes more problematic at closer focus distances and wide apertures and the lens can display rather heavy longitudinal chromatic aberration. Overall, though, the images out of the 42.5mm f/0.95 are of very high quality, and the speed and subject isolation you get with this lens is more akin to the look you get from a full frame camera than typical Micro 4/3.

Really a great lens from Voigtlander!

All search links to Nokton f/0.95 lenses:
17,5mm at [shopcountry 36581] 25mm at [shopcountry 36580] 42,5mm at [shopcountry 41062]

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A source just shared some info on a new lens that will be launched along the new ultra-compact Panasonic G camera in early October! There will be a 12-32mm lens as compact as the current Panasonic X Vario PZ 14-42mm. But the new 12-32mm will not have the PZ function and is likely a tiny bit smaller than the current pancake zoom. Obviously this lens will be the kit lens of the ultracompact camera. Very small, very light and a tiny bit wider…sounds like the perfect companion for the new camera!

P.S.: Along the Panasonic G and 12-32mm ultra compact camera and lens there will be also the final release of the Nocticron 42,5mm lens.

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Slashcam reports that a Blackmagic Cinema 2,5K camera with active MFT mount is likely on the horizon (not a 4K version as previously reported here). A 4K model (which already exists with EF mount) may be coming much later but this is just speculation for now.

Sony photographer Clayton Nelson wrote a weird message on Facebook. Here is the text:

Mr. DebDeb (Editor’s note: his cat), photographed with my newly purchased Sony NEX 7 four thirds format digital camera. I took this with a fifty year old Nikon lens, used on the camera with a manual adaptor. I was amazingly surprised at the quality of the images that this camera renders, at 25.3 megapixels. The great thing about these cameras is that almost any lens from any camera can be used with the NEX cameras…. Next up? Shooting fashion with, on Amy Mohoric Snyderman, tomorrow…

We know he ist testing the new NEX-7r, so it’s common for him to receive brand new Sony cameras before the release. But I would be surprised to know that Sony made a sort of Four Thirds NEX camera! I guess this has to be an error! Or maybe the new NEX-7R has a Four Thirds sized sensor that can take both, APS-C format, square format and 4/3 format pics? Ok, just speculation for now, I still think he made a mistake. Or he is trying to confuse people because he leaked some NEX-7r info on Saturday…also possible!