Voigtlander VM Nokton 35 mm f/1.4 MC : Specifications and Opinions

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Andreaplus

sent on 25 Settembre 2025

Pros: Weight, dimensions, construction... character!

Cons: Lens not for everyone

Opinion: I own the single coated version II, I love the fact that Voigtlander has managed to almost totally correct those small flaws of the previous version (chromatic aberrations, focus shift and sharpness at full aperture) while maintaining the "character" that distinguished it. Not recommended for those looking for perfection, highly recommended for those who want a different flavor in the photos. In the pros, as far as I'm concerned, I also add the Flare (not the absence but the beauty) and the Bokeh which does not have that annoying cat eye at the edges maintaining a good roundness (personal taste of course).

Wilier86

sent on 26 Maggio 2023

Pros: Compact, brightness 1.4 , construction materials, excellent contrast, price

Cons: focusing distance. cost of hood.

Opinion: Excellent lens for leica at a low price compared to the Leica lenses of the parent company, I use it on an M8 is from excellent results, it is compact, well solid, with an excellent complexion and excellent contrasts. The only flaw in my opinion, the focusing distance. Recommended for all those looking for a lens at a good price without having to faint excessively.

Vedberdan

sent on 13 Agosto 2022

Pros: Granite construction, tiny, rings, colors, font

Cons: quite soft at wider apertures, Chromatic aberration, slight barrel distortion, fairly marked flare and perhaps the focusing distance

Opinion: Goal of an impeccable construction! Holding it in your hand gives you a feeling of security. Very compact! Using the rings is very pleasant and fun. I used it initially on a fuji xpro3 where its defects were more marked. After that, he mounted it on a Leica MP, for which it was created, and the music changed. Even more compact for the absence of the adapter ring (even if it was very thin) I understood why the focusing distance is 70cm, with the rangefinder you can not frame and focus perfectly at shorter distances ... but you can always use the LV. On the leica the colors and contrasts seemed more beautiful, the blurred and the detachment of the planes more marked gave even more value to this little one. In short, mind you, it is not an exceptional lens but for its weight, size and price it offers so much! At wider openings it is a bit soft and vignettes a lot but for portraits it is more than fine. then it has an excellent three-dimensionality and color representation. You see many photos around, even here on juza, taken with this lens that are of incredible beauty.

Paride Amoroso

sent on 30 Marzo 2020

Pros: Construction and dials, size and weight, maximum opening, general yield.

Cons: FULL-open AC, yield to corners up to f/5.6, minimum focus distance (70cm)

Opinion: I own the MC version, so with an anti-reflective treatment more suitable, according to the manufacturer, to color photography. I use it 'welded' to my Fuji X-E2, so it gives me a focal point of about 50mm, my favorite. From the point of view of the construction and the dexterity to use it, I can only be enthusiastic. All metal and glass, with the diaphragms' diaphragms ring that allows the click to 1/3 of diaphragm, not hard, neither soft and the dial for the focus well braked, without being too much. Great, for both dials, the finger clasping. The lens is small and light, which on an ML does not mind. From the point of view of optical yield, the large aperture allows you to use low ISO when the light is missing. It also has a pleasant bokeh and the detachment is clearly visible even to closed diaphragms. The overall yield is good, although the angles (despite the asp-c sensor) do not shine at full aperture. You have to close at least to f/2.8 to have them readable. At full opening suffers from a remarkable AC, just close to F2 and disappears. Impossible to use in close ups, having a minimum focus distance of 70cm, too bad. It's still a pleasure to use it. I don't think I'm ever going to sell this optics. I would like to test the yield on FF as well. Currently you can't use it on my 6D. I'll have to wait to buy an R. In the next few years maybe.

Antonio Ibraimovic

sent on 31 Luglio 2019

Pros: Gorgeous in everything

Cons: Nothing

Opinion: There are few words, optical mini with so much brilliance, and beautiful in the return of colors, combined with a Leica M9, a ccd FF, it puts its to make everything fantastic. I consider it a little gem. You make portraits with a beautiful and balanced blur, I'm in love with this optics, where put on the Leica is all very compact.

Bernalor

sent on 24 Aprile 2016

Pros: Compactness, the same forms of Summilux pre-asph and building (the appearance is almost the same), brightness, strong timbre, price (compared to other 1.4 and Summilux), neutral colors, diaphragm 10 straight blades.

Cons: Suffer from barrel distortion, vignetting very strong in f / 2 and Coma at full aperture is very strong. The sharpness in TA is not very good but improves with close to f / 2 aperture and the edge closing a little ', perhaps also because of the curvature of field. Flare with strong light sources directly, usually it occurs as a single circle (or a few more) that covers much or all of the frame and lowering the macrocontrasto.rnConsiglio to buy even the lens hood that is expensive but if you calculate that it is in metal ...

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