The London Transport Museum is a place "which explores the heritage of London and its transport system, and the stories of the people who have travelled and worked in the city over the last 200 years" and for photographic fun. 

This was another opportunity to put the Voigtländer Nokton 17.5mm f0.95 Aspherical through its paces and it did not disappoint. This a beautiful lens reminiscent of classic Zeiss optics in the way it renders images. Hmmm...

The Nokton provides a graded or feathered fall off in depth of focus which is very attractive.

Its colour rendition is warmer too which is redolent of classic rangefinder lenses of the 50's and 60's.

Images made with it really do have their own distinctive look and feel.

The lens seems to be optimised for colour acutance rather than spatial acutance as a result colours really pop and it can do something for digital which most system find a challenge, help render red tones attractively.

Weighing in at 560g and being 80mm in length this a lump of a lens that tends to being front heavy on camera and tiring to support and use after a while, especially as it is manual focus which can be a bit of a faff to get right at f0.95 given the extremely shallow depth of field.

In conclusion, having used this borrowed lens a couple of times and really liked the images it produces, will I now acquire one for my own use? Well, no I will not. For me and what I do it is too bulky and especially far too heavy to be carried around all day and for long distances. As a specialist lens for ultra low level available light work and for creating images with that classic creamy, dreamy bokeh when used at wider apertures it is exceptional. For me it remains a special lens for specialist applications. But it does produce gorgeous looking pictures full of character...