Oh we all love our Panasonic 20mm f/1.7
On Ebay we just found the extream rare De Oude Delft 50mm f/0.75 lens (click here). The M-mount lens cost US $1,500.00 and you have to tolerate the fungus on the glass 🙁
But guys that’s a 50mm f/0.75!
If you want it faster you need to find the Carl Zeiss 50mm f/0.7. It is a Limited production lens built for the NASA space program- Stanley Kubrick used it on a 35mm movie cameras for some candlelit scenes in Barry Lyndon! Story of the Zeiss lens is available here: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm
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0.75 may be partially occluded entering a µ4/3 camera – depends somewhat on the adaptor. The limit for proper µ4/3 lenses is ~0.95 due to the aperture coming out the back of the lens and the distance from there to the sensor (20/22).
I bet it’s a easy lens to focus wide open :/
as some guy seems to have been using it on a M8 it should definitely work even better for m4/3!
And the fun part is: people bought/sold this same lens for $5, $23, $112 etc.
The $1500 is giga ripoff =)
Just look here:
http://completed.shop.ebay.com/i.html?LH_Complete=1&_nkw=Rayxar&_dmpt=Film_Cameras&_fcid=168&_fln=1&_localstpos=&_sticky=1&_stpos=&_trksid=p3286.c0.m283&gbr=1&_rdc=1
Précision : en faite le noktor est un simple objectif vidéo : http://reportagesphotos.fr/A1603-actualite-noktor-f-0-95-micro-4-3-un-simple-objectif-de-video-surveillance.html
These are actually used for X-ray machines not on camera, the F-stops dont actually fit the rules on m4/3 sensors or film.. maybe for an x-ray machine?
http://cgi.ebay.com/CANON-XI-LENS-50mm-f-0-75-CLEAN-FREE-SHIPPING_W0QQitemZ160404945579QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCamera_Lenses?hash=item2558e13aab
here is another one similar cannot focus to infinity
priced at 399
Definitely WAY overpriced at $1500 for this lens. Just because someone built an M-mount for it doesn’t make it an M-quality lens. Since it’s an X-Ray equipment lens, the backplane distance is only about 0.8 cm, which means this lens can only be used for macro/close-up shots. Certainly it gives a unique bokeh, but IMO it’s not worth the price as advertised. I’d guess someone will bite and buy it though =).
Acutally, the owner NOWHERE says this lens has M-monut.. He’s only saying that someone has M-lens like this. Also monut of this lens doesn’t look like M-mount..
and then the picture disappeared, then somebody asked about M-mount and the answer was there is none, “but can be done”, then the messages disappeared and location “Beijing” came up….
Come on, the lens is sold from CHINA. Of course there is going to be a ripoff somewhere. If it wasn’t for the price of the lens it would have been for the shipping. I bought myself a similar lens a few months ago (a KOWA 42mm f/0.75) paid 65$ shipped. Made myself an adapter to my Canon 50d using extension tubes, it just happened that the rings were exactly the same size as the back of the lens and voila!