Received the lens while at work today.
I took a couple of quick snapshots - what I noticed was it was a tad on the soft side when wide open. BUT I must say that seems to be more or less on par with my
non-L Canon DSLR lenses at their sharpest. I should probably do a proper comparison.
The Nokton started to sharpen up from f/2-2.8 onwards, and it was bitingly sharp from around f/4-5.6.
Corner-to-corner sharpness actually isn't too bad at all apertures, it's definitely better than my Voigtlander 35mm f/1.4 where the corners are visibly not as sharp as the middle of the lens.
But anyway I took a few more snapshots after work while I was waiting to catch the bus home. These are
not untouched JPGs straight out of the camera but are post-processed in the way I'd normally do it, because I am going to post-process my photos by default anyway and that's what matters to me.
Note also I didn't have a UV/IR filter so some blacks may look purple.
Wide open:
I think this might have been at f/2.8 but I'm not sure, the shallow depth of field looks like it's wider than f/2.8:
I was trying to aim for the guy in the foreground but he was walking too fast so I went for the two guys behind him instead and just managed to get into focus:
This photo was taken through the grimy bus window so there is a funky distorted effect with natural vignetting from the edge of the window:
If anyone wants me to take proper straight-out-of-camera shots for pixel-peeping purposes at various apertures, let me know and I'll see what I can do.