Mitakon 50mm f/0.95
Aperture Size: 53mm ● Dimentions: 87x69mm / 720g
Scores: out of 10 (non-Bokeh Pano scores)
Overall: 6.5 (9)
Bokeh Amount: 6 (8)
Bokeh Quality: 5 (7)
Sharpness: 9 (9)
Aberrations: 8 (7)
Value: 7 (9)
It's easy to dismiss the "Dark Knight" from Mitakon as a cheep Chinese knock off. I mean it is very cheap (relatively), at 1/10th the cost of a Noctilux, but to suggest that it's poor value would be a travesty. The Mitakon's build quality certainly doesn't live up to the Leica's (most noticeably in focus smoothness), but it's really not bad. Amazingly some aspects of its image quality (namely sharpness) match, or actually surpass the Leica.
I do have to mark the Mitakon down in here for it's practicality as a bokeh pano lens, but this mostly comes down to it being a 50mm. Bokeh quality dropping off after 1m, distortion from of field curvature, Vignetting, wide-open corner performance etc. However, considering its speed this is the most interesting and best performing 50mm lens I've ever tested!*
* I feel the need to justify some of the hyperbole and explain why I'm so impressed with this lens (although not so much for panoramas). Traditionally, faster lenses perform worse. When they're extremely wide (like this) they either have to be very complex (big, heavy and expensive) so as not to be terrible, or you have to forgive a lot of shortcomings. If a manufacturer throws the kitchen sink at a lens design they can fix a lot (ala Sigma ART or to an older/lesser extent the Leica Noctilux), but it's going to cost you. Extreme wide aperture lenses like this are usually either bad or stratosphere-level money, but the Mitakon is neither. For general photography most of the scores (above) would have been higher. Value is an easy 9/10, in that regard the Mitakon's not just good, it's stunning!