Panasonic Leica DG Nocticron 42.5mm f/1.2 ASPH

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[@websitesthatneedanem]

What cheerful chap at the end!

[@frostbite52187]

Awesome lens review as always Matt. Informative, straight to the point, and upfront just the way I like it. More power to you and your channels! Cheers! :)

[@bourbakis]

Great! Makes me want it. What's the minimum focus distance?

[@zlhnju]

Hi, I am wondering, whether the aperture ring works for Olympus body?~

[@victorbart]

Cool love to add this to my GH3 and GF5 someday! :)

[@jlalonde1000]

wow sharp but light fall off is 2 much Matt can you do a few 150% crop on some of theses when they look this good

[@isaacemilmedina]

You'll be enlarging the pixels. Are you sure?

[@boysherman]

Nice review. Would be cool to compare IQ to the Olympus 45 1.8. I know build quality is different and the Olympus lacks IS, but how about IQ from 1.8 on?

[@farouk6564]

great lens but I think the fuji 56mm will still the show plus it's $600 less. Thanks for sharing!

[@Check-it-out]

Better than any Nikorn lens ey ?

[@brain96969]

Great lens!

[@peace4myheart]

Crazy awesome performance, but also crazy price!!!

[@MrKikoboy]

2x the price of a decent m4/3 body ( gx7 - em-10)...you have to really want to invest in the system....but lovely results...and it's getting harder to decide on what system to invest in with all the new stuff....

[@CornerG]

Within 25 seconds, she just sneakily took your picture. :-)
Also, I guess it's a nice lens too.

[@alexang9261]

Show the GH4 man !!!

[@hawg427]

When you blew those shots up that sucker is sharper than a razor blade. LOL
You get what you pay for here.

[@vietambercool]

Why are people complaining that this is too expensive or a crazy price? Isn't the Nikon 85mm f/1.4G ~$1,600?

[@asadb1990]

Thats a full frame lens and this is a m4/3 lens which is smaller and much cheaper to build. So price should have been around half the asking. thats why people are upset.

[@Caseyjames91]

Asad the great half? are you nuts?

[@asadb1990]

Casey Wright well the makers m4/3 have been praising that reason to buy into the m4/3 is that lens compared to canon or nikon will be much cheaper. So with that in mind, this lens should be cheaper as well.

[@mimstyle]

I prefere the nokton 42.5mm F 0.95 with full frame photo look. Thanks for the review this one too expensive.

[@thany3]

Manual focus only, right?

[@mimstyle]

thany3 yes the nokton is only manuel focus.

[@hungrydavo]

mimstyle I heard the nokton had a weird bokeh characteristic when taking photos of distant subjects. Is that true?

[@mimstyle]

Just a bit not that much

[@hungrydavo]

Fair call. I'll have to take another look at the lens!!

[@MickaelBartikian]

Wow! You can see she's using contact lenses

[@Oralion2]

What's the point of a micro 4/3 not really portable and so damn expensive? I'd rather invest that kind of money for a used 5D and a canon 50 1.2...

[@xjxu7806]

AWE!

[@blarkdexture8899]

Nice glas. More vids please. Like 5 a day,

[@blackclavish]

well, if you were on m4/3, particularly the GH cameras, you would know that a big part of its popularity is due to its video capabilities. you've shown nothing but stills in this review.

[@xjxu7806]

Good lens,but too expensive! Fujifilm 56mm F1.2 has higher C/P !

[@treehugger3615]

Everyone is waxing poetic over this lens, I just don't see the point of such an expensive lens for such a small sensor. Whatever impressive optics is crippled by the not so great sensor.