Interesting portraits! I like the images you showed - the dreamy look and the great combination of colors between your model and the background. Thanks a lot.

Just came back home from India and guess what? I was with that lens there traveling and have done it around 1.5k photos with it .... time to time I was switching with Nikon Z 28mm 2.8f but absolutely gorgeous 50mm 1.0f !!! Before I have Nikon Z 50mm 1.2f and I sold it... it was to heavy and to big for my hobby... I never regret... So happy to have Voigtlander 50mm f/1 Z Mount... Next one Cosina 75mm 1.5f in my list 🙈

Wow! Thank you for the review. It has been on my to buy list and now I will be ordering it. Great videos as always.

That 50/1 has become my go to lens on the Zf-first class combination!

Dang! Those are super-cool images. Thank you for your efforts in making this video.

If you use the TTArtisan 6bit M to Z adapter you get the Subject Detection with the adapted lenses. You also get the option to focus trap.

fantastic lens indeed, seems this eye focus thing is working great

I used the 50mm f1on the Z7 & Z8 and it was great, but using it for portraits on the Zf with eye detection is transformational, removing the need to zoom in (as you said)

Please show us more beautiful pictures with this lens, i am excited to see more

Haha, John, so finally my 50mm f1 has arrived too. Will give it a good test-run over the weekend, a beautiful, if somewhat bulky, MF lens. Quite a bit larger compared to my 40 f1.2 Voigtländer, but no dramas, as you have said, they are very different lenses for different applications. I look forward to your review on the 75mm f1.5 too, I might still grab that one, then my Zf travel-kit will be complete. Those 3 will come in handy when I travel around in Europe, once I move there in September. I have quite a few of the high-end Nikon z-lenses, they are pretty good on my Z9 body, but for travel, and to slow things down and get in the moment, these MF z-mounts are perfect for the Zf. Cheers for your great videos, as always, appreciative of your efforts.

Thanks for posting. I think the Voigtlander line is a very under-appreciated product. I have two of their lenses and have no major complaints about them. Their price also makes them a very attractive offer.

Good review. I've used one for 2 months, after renting the 50z Apo for a week. This one is different. If you want a Summilux, get the 50 f2 Apo. If you were looking at the Noctilux, this is the one you want. The 50 Apo is so much fun to shoot (it's smaller and the focus ring diameter works quicker). Eyeball slicing sharp at all apertures. The f/1 is a portrait and NIGHT specialist (2 stops faster! pretty cool in use). 2 stages: subject separation & background blur (check background @ 6:10 - robot? behind her is gone) + sharp, like every other lens in the market above f/2 or so. The cost is, well, the cost, and more importantly the heft. It's not the walk-about sports car the APO is, it feels like a "work lens," reminding me a bit of a HB 500c/m or SWC in use. I'll probably going to end up with both - they're quite different.

Could you elaborate on the commercial work comment about the 50 APO? I'm curious if that's about color or flatness of field? Sorry I'm on all your videos asking questions but I promise it's just due to wanting to learn more about the kind of photography you do. Also I know you don't do affiliate links which is cool, but you might consider a tip jar. You've answered a ton of questions I had about gear. After watching many videos and being kind of on the fence about it, I did ultimately acquire an M11, for example, and you were as always more helpful than the vast majority of folks on this website.

Good morning, Is manual focusing on a Nikon zf as easy with a VM lens as on a Leica SL2/SL2S?

I thought every one of those images was great. I used the 65mm APO Voigtlander for a some shots at a wedding last year and the results were terrific but I found f2 to be so shallow I missed focus a few times (Sony camera) so this new Nikon approach seems very attractive to me. Thanks for shooting the video,

This lens at f/1 seems much sharper than the 40 at f/1.2 per the examples in your other video. I would love to splurge on this, but my adapted LM 50f/1.2 is a very decent compromise.

There are actually two green arrows either side of the green box. If you nail exact focus, the will both point into the center. If one is off, it tells you how to focus. I raised this method to the guy from Grey's of Westminster and told him zooming in to focus is completely unnecessary with the Zf. Lovely camera for MF. Not so good for lefties using BBF though. I think I'll buy a second body and put the 75 F1.5 Z on it and the 40 F1.2 on the other as a travel setup. Still not sure about the weight of the 50 F1 though. 600g is about the same as the 65mm APO and that's just too heavy for walking around all day.

Been hanging on to a zfc and the 35 Nokton just for fun and classic look but this combo is begging to replace it!

Very nice. So I take it if you stop it down to f/4 through f/8 it's plenty sharp...making it a dual-purpose performer?

Lovely videos, now I wonder though, which voigtländer lense will stay on the camera, what is your verdict between the 50 and the 40?

I think the issue is coming from event shooters. I know when I shoot a wedding and I have strap on my hand I will sometimes just have the camera hanging on one hand for a second. Just to give myself a few second break. This Nikon does not have that kind of grip you can just let it hang so you can take a few second break.

Well, so how was your hitrate exactly with this green dot thing? When I had Nikon in former times the hitrate was pretty low. Also, as this lens has no electronic aperture control, how is the precision of focusing when stopped down? And finally, how would you rate the results compared to a rangefinder? Thank you

It's on backorder still. Some day I will get it...

Really considering this lens. Would you say it’s up to par with the equivalent Leica lens? Can’t believe the price of this in comparison 🙏

Correct me if I'm wrong, but none of these lenses you are playing with, the different Voigt's, the 40mm f/2 Nikon, etc are bad, right? With proper initial capture, all are plenty worthy of having. Price or size is the factor, not image quality per se, I'd guess.

I'll stick with the M 1.2

What the hell did you do with your audio?

Hi, with that green box, you’re right! I was zooming in at the beginning, it took some time and the result wasn’t always good. And then one time I just tried to do the focus with green box and it is just good enough in most of the time and a way faster and you can see the whole picture. Sometimes less is more (or almost every time).