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Chris and Jordan published their character review video of the Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.0 and Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.2. There is a summary below of their findings.

Canon R5 with Voigtlander 40mm f/1.2 Nokton

• Full electric connectivity for EXIF
• Premium manual focus lens
• Butter smooth focus
• Nice click stop
• All metal
• Nice Depth of field scale
• A little smaller and lighter than the 50mm
• 420g or 0.9lbs
• 58mm filter thread
• Not much flare to worry about
• No major ghosting
• Not great for Sunstars but a little better than the 50mm f/1.0
• Great bokeh with cats eye specular highlight that are almost petzval
• Petzval cats eye goes away by f/2 and no soap bubbles or onion rings
• Can be a little polygonal when you stop down
• LoCA is pretty bad wide-open
• Fairly soft wide open with some contrast loss that goes away as you stop down
• There is vignetting in the corners in addition to it being soft and while it sharpens up by f/2.5 there is still vignetting
• You can get character and softness out of this lens without a problem
• Beautiful character that can get razor-sharp and it is well corrected
• Similar bokeh from both lenses

Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.2:
B&H Photo

Sony a7RV with Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.0

• Full electric connectivity for EXIF
• Premium manual focus lens
• Butter smooth focus
• Nice click stop
• All metal
• Nice Depth of field scale
• 484g or 1.1lbs
• 67mm filter thread
• Not much flare to worry about
• No major ghosting
• Not great for sunstars
• Great bokeh with cats eye specular highlight that are almost petzval
• Petzval cats eye goes away by f/2 and no soap bubbles or onion rings
• Slightly worse LoCA than the 40mm which is pretty bad wide-open
• Fairly soft wide open with very low contrast that goes away as you stop down as soon as f/1.4 and more so at f/2.0
• There is vignetting in the corners in addition to it being soft and while it sharpens up by f/2 there is still vignetting
• You can get character and softness out of this lens without a problem
• Beautiful character that can get razor-sharp and it is well corrected
• Similar bokeh from both lenses

Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.0:
B&H Photo / Amazon