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Review Summary
2019-11-30T06:49:15
Super sharp, outstanding craftsmanship, extremely well made compared to any Chinese made lens. All glass and metal, Controls are very smooth and accurate. Very easy to focus on a D5, D810, D700, Df, D300s, D90,D80, D70(s), F through F5, F100, FA, FM through FM2n, FE-FE2, and FG.
Frank S.
2019-03-10T16:41:31
I've used my Voigtlander 58mm SL-II S on both my Nikon F6 and on my Fujifilm X-T3, with a Metabones F to X adapter, where its equivalent field of view is of an 87mm lens on a full-frame camera. So it's an ideal portrait lens. The bokeh is pleasant, but I'm not a bokeh-fanatic. In fact I'm not even a corner-to-corner sharpness-fanatic either, since I use this to photograph people and real life three-dimensional things, not charts. I love it. I have the slightly older version that has a rubber rather than metal ring for the focus. But otherwise optically identical.
Michael C.
2018-12-14T04:56:41
Great lens - solid metal build, small, excellent in portraits.
NADIA Z.
2018-12-10T06:59:30
The lens excellent and so easy to use. The best in the 50mm range lens.
Kwok-Chi N.
2018-01-31T11:59:23
This is pure silk to focus. Rendition, saturation, sharpness, and resolution are I believe, the best I have seen unless you are paying way too much more$$$. A must have lens, I am having difficulty putting this down.
DAVID F.
2017-01-17T14:15:06
So I went out on a limb to buy this lens after reading reviews on the previous versions. I have been lusting for this lens for a very long time but was afraid to move to a manual focus lens. The focus ring on this lens is outstanding. I highly recommend!!
OSCAR C.
2016-12-16T07:36:22
If a lens could be sexy. Well this is it. Everyone loves to ask me about it. The images produced are outstanding
JOSE S.
2016-12-05T04:56:33
This review is for the 2016 model SL-II S version of the lens. Optically, this lens is superb. It is sharp and contrasty, and has very pleasing color rendering. Its bokeh is less creamy than better Zeiss lenses, but looks more attractive, in my opinion, than any Sigma or Nikon lenses around the same focal length. I use it mostly on a Nikon Df, but have also used it on a D810 and D750. Vignetting can be rather heavy at f1.4, but no more than any Nikkor 50 or 58 and is easily fixed by software profile correction. If a manual focus-only lens is acceptable for your work, this lens makes a very solid case against the ($) Nikon AF-S 58 1.4G at just about 1/3 the price. Its precision metal body feels like it would last a lot longer, and it is more compact, to boot. The issues of build quality mentioned by another reviewer seem to have been resolved entirely with this model, as this "SL-II S" feels far better built than classic Nikkors and more or less the equal of the pre-Milvus "classic" Zeiss lenses for F mount. The long focus ring is heavily damped and makes precise focusing easy, except in very low-light where DLSR viewfinders are not nearly as bright as most old film bodies. Overall, it seems like a minimalist equal of more expensive autofocus lenses around the same focal length at a much lower price. It's the small Porsche without power anything or a fancy sound system: just a manual transmission, good engine, and great bones. It is minimalist, beautifully made, optically fantastic, looks nice, and is a relative rarity, as most Voigtländer lenses are.
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Voigtlander
BA243J
Nokton
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Nikon
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17.72" / 45cm
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58mm
40 deg.
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f/16
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52mm
7 Elements / 6 Groups
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2.66 x 1.79" (67.6 x 45.5mm)
11.29oz / 320g
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Nostalgic Lens Barrel Design similar to the 58mm f/1.4 Nikkor of 1959
Beautiful Bokeh, outstanding optical performance
Ai-s mount (CPU integrated) for digital Nikon SLRs
On APS-C cameras equivalent to 85mm f/1.4 portrait lens
Meter Coupling for most Nikon SLRs - film or digital
Focal Length: 58mm
Aperture Ratio: 1:1,4
Minimum Aperture: F 16
Lens Construction: 7 elements in 6 groups
Angle of View: 40 deg
Apertue Blades: 9
Minimum Focus: 0.45m
Maximum Diameter: 65.9mm
Length: 47.5mm
Mount: Nikon AI-S (CPU integrated)
Weight: 320g
Filter Size: 58mm
Macro Ratio: 1:5.8
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