Image courtesy: DC.watch.
The world’s fastest lens for mirrorless cameras is the Ibelux 40mm f/0.85. You can get it with native MFT mount at Adorama (Click here) and in Germany at Technikdirekt.
DC.watch (google translation here) is the first website who reviewed the lens (Fuji X-mount version). They posted many image samples and test. Of course it’s a bit tricky to rely on the google translation tool but these are their findings (if correctly interpreted):
– lens quality is very high (made of metal and nice glossy painted black).
– smooth focus ring and very accurate. A bit weak click when using the aperture ring (sometimes you may don’t notice it and rotate further).
– sharpness is decent wide open and improves dramatically at f/2.8 towards.
– There is some fringe at wide aperture
– It has a “gentle” blur
– no major ghost or flare issue
Now are your ready to spend 2000Euro/Dollars on that lens? Me not đ
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This actually looks pretty great but they’re going to be hard pressed to sell many at $2k. Halve that price and our becomes a potential guilty purchase.
There is some spherical aberration, as expected, but really not bad at F1.4
Just to have a quality f/0.85 is very cool, unfortunately no people photograpy samples.Prob its brand, the manual focus and price will be main argument against it and suddenly the Nocticron looks much more interesting for the people with a huge budget.
Yes , Nocticron for me too .
Unless this lens can produce something very special to the Nocticron & this is highly unlikely .
the difference from f/1.2 and f/0.85 should be its main argument but for the majority of people they cant make good use of it so its prob just for the small group of fanatics who spend alot on gear.
We will see if this Ibelux lens in the coming reviews worth for the price tags .
Manual Focus lens not really for me unless as I said it need to produce something very special that worth that sum of money .
I agree, but what getting something special is mostly a combination of the abilities from both lens and the photographer. Just like googling for photos made with other expensive lenses, and wondering why the owner needed that lens for making such average photo.
– lens quality is very high (made of metal and nice glossy painted black).
“Glossy” is likely a typo. It should probably be either “matte” or “satin”.
Lol 2000 euro for a M43 lens.
It’s not an M43 lens, idiot. You can buy it for your a6000 Sony fanboy.
I feel sorry for you that you need to use those words. And yes its a M43 lens. And no i have no Sony A6000. And no i am not a Fanboy. And once again i feel truly sorry for you.
Don’t call mamma. And no, this is not an m43 lens. And yes, you are a stinking Sony fanboy that insists in trolling here. I feel truly truly sorry for you and your sad life.
Relax nerdie, it’s just a camera lens. A funny one, but only a lens. Butthurt much?
You relax top nerd. Just having fun with this moron. Did it hurt you? A friend of you? Or are you his mom?
The language of brains… Can you actually take pictures nerdie?
Show us your photography!
Show us the kittens!
What a waste
No AF = No Buy !
1970’s CCTV lens?
My Canon FL 55/1.2 plus Speed Booster is a 39/0.9 and costs about $650 combined and has better optical quality. (Would be a 0.85 as well, but the SB is limited to 0.9)
And it’s much smaller than this monstrosity.
Same with my Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2.
For 1300 euro’s you can buy an A7 with kitlens. This combo is small, weatherproof etc……and most important delivers so much better picture and video quality in every way than any M43 combo.
OH REALLY??? WHY IBELUX DID THAT???
Did you share that on SAR?
A Sony fanboy as he is wouldn’t do that.
I still prefer your kittens offer.
OMG. Another nonsense stupid comment.
Touch screen?
State-of-the-art AF under low-light (-> GX7) The A7s seems to have solve the puzzle but costs much more.
Wide choice of decent, compact glass?
GPS functionality?
4k video?
One could confirm for 104th time that some technical aspects of the Sony cameras are splendid (e.g. image sensor, PDAF + contrast Af on the A7) but as a photographer I first and foremost care for the entire experience.
No it won’t. That kitlens is slow(shutterspeed) and crap. IQ wise and usability wise no match for a E-M1 or GH4 + HQ zoomkit. Not tot mention only a little shallower DoF wilde open(seems to matter a lot tot some people).
The quality is “decent” wide open, but only for very large values of the the variable “decent.”
So you pay $2000 bucks to get an ultra fast lens that needs to be stopped down to F2.0 to get decent results. It also weighs 1.15kg and even if you shoot the crap wide open setting you still end up with the same DOF as an F1.7 lens on FF . So one question why?
Just FYI, 80/1.7 has a close-to-unusable DOF on Full Frame. Just look on professional portraits, almost nobody uses apertures greater than F2.0 on portrait focal lengths.
if that would be true then portraits would stink on MFT We need to keep more things in mind when making a good portrait, one of which is the light quality the most important. shallow DOF can add to that but can be tricky to do if you do close portraits. Enough 24×36 portraits I have seen with a portrait lens set at 2.8 – 5.6 where the effect of shalow dof is still great, because portait distances with a 80mm ish are rather short.
That is why nobody on FF is buying 85 mm f/1.4 lenses and hardly anyone offers them. Not.
That’s m43’s advantage… having both worlds in one. That’s why I love it.
Advantage? You won the price for this week’s stupidest comment. Keep it up!
Really? Mickey Mouse told you?
…I don’t like the image quality. The bokeh looks a bit shaky… .
“sharpness is decent wide open and improves dramatically at f/2.8 towards.”
So it’s the fastest lens but doesn’t get sharp until f2.8 and you want $2,080 for it? I’d rather pay the money for the Nocticron that is sharp at faster f stops and put the $500 extra in my pocket.
can agree with you on the price, but decent sharpness is not the same as not sharp. I Iread the Nocticron is able to give great sharpness already at 1.2 which is great. If the Ibelux goes down in price it might help surely.
Even dearer than the Noctiflex 4000… This is so stupid it’s funny.
Going strictly by that review this lens sucks.
The Pana/Leica 42.5mm 1.2 is a steal by comparison. Better IQ, Sharp wide open, built equally as well and has auto-focus…just to talk about the big broad strokes…
Looks pretty soft until f/4.
Nocticron looks like a steal compared to this