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The world fastest lens for digital mirrorless systems is now shipping in E-mount version one [shoplink 27059 ebay]eBay Germany (Click here)[/shoplink]. It’s terrific fast and expensive. Handevision also issues a full press release (read it here) to announce the worldwide shipment. Some pics can be seen too (here).
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Admin: is this a full frame compatible lens? Thank you.
I don’t know if it is fullframe or not, but they say “more lenses for fullframe mirrorless in developement”. So it maybe fullframe, it maybe not…
Weitere Objektive der hochwertigen Produktserie für spiegellose Vollformatkameras und DSLRs sind bereits in Entwicklung.
It clearly states that it’s available for Sony E, Fuji X, Canon EOS M and m4/3.
These are all APS-C or smaller. So I’m guessing not.
It will be a “bargain” if it covers APS-C at infinity.
I don’t think so. The press release states a picture diagonal (do they mean diametre of image circle?) of 28.4mm, which is close to the diagonal of an APS-C sensor.
I think it’s APS-C. Which makes it a weird focal length, hardly versatile. Even less considering the weight.
Picture diagonal 28.4 mm (APS-C), anytime Full Frame isn’t mentioned in the description/advertisement you can bet it’s not.
of course not. Only for crop sensors. A full frame lens with 0.85 would probably weighs 3 kilos or more .
It’s a weird focal length, it should be rather 35mm, maybe it was easier to make a 40mm !
It’s a weird lens period; almost like it was designed for a specific industrial or military purpose, and not photography.
its apsc lens so its equivalent of 60 1.275 on ff
so many fast glass , we don’t have proper review of mitokin 50 0.95 yet this come out
Wow.. 1.15kg!
The pics look kind of soft and hazy, and the bokeh is not very decent either. The Mitakon/Zhongyi 50 0.95 looks like a better deal: probably similar performance, slightly better bokeh, half the weight and size and a third of the asking price.
SO cheap! lol…
Are you describing yourself or the lens.
Whatever happened to the Ibecat?
If you are looking for a website for that company “HandeVision” you find the site http://www.handevision.de (bilingual in german and english) and there you see that “HandeVision” is just a new brand of german distributor Walser (who distributed the Rokinon lenses under the brand “Walimex”).
And you can read that the lens is the result of a cooperation between the german IB/E Optics GmbH and the chines Kipon. Business of IB/E is more concentrated on industrial optics, measurements and testing…
Seems to me that – after Rokinon goes on its own now without all those brand names and distributors – that Walser was looking for a replacement and found it in a german company doing the computations (the company has only 22 employees including the cleaning personal as stated on their website) and a chinese plant for manufacturing.
Would like to know it’s T-stop. You know, this is something no one is talking about in regards to the Sigma 50mm 1.4 ART either- 13 elements in 8 groups! That’s a lot of elements. I highly doubt it outperforms the Zeiss 50mm using less and higher quality lens elements. What ever happen to the T- stop!
It remains to be seen whether it is the fastest e mount lens when T stop is evaluated.
The correct title should be ” World’s e-mount lens with the shallowest DoF now shipping in Germany!”.
Oh, and good luck focusing with it..
Correction “… shallowest DoF for APS-C at 40mm…”
Go read dxomark review I think it had t 1.7
Off topic…but…
http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/interesting-worldwide-camera-market-analysis-by-the-german-photokina-partner-gfk
Premium Compact Fixed Lens is growing. I am willing to bet that the RX1, RX100 and Fuji X100 are the big chunks in that trend.
RX1 situation is like this. If you can make money with it within a year, it is (was) worth buying. Currently, it is available for great prices (used, <50% of the initial list prices in the EU). So, it is better to wait a while if it is not "essential".
I am actually looking forward to the rumored RX2 which I hope will have an EVF, flash sync port, articulating LCD, and very compact.
If you can afford it, and you like it, it’s worth buying.
I can afford (at the initial EU price or at 50% used now) it but do not like the RX1(no EVF, no flash sync port, no swivel LCD…), so, not worth buying. I hope the RX2 comes with better equipped and would be very compact. I still use a Contax T. That has a tiny Sonnar 38/2.8. The rumored (and patented) curved sensor + the 35/1.8 Topogon derivative alone would make me very happy.
Let us see if Sony would deliver it. 🙂
I wasn’t saying you as in ‘you’. My point was everyone can weigh up the pros and cons for themselves.
60mm equivalent is a strange focal length! That thing looks big, I thought that was the hood.
– strange focal length
– too big
The grapes looks sour, doesn’t it?
Ugly bokeh.
Speed booster anyone? 😉
(SB + Olympus OM 50/1.2 is compact, light weight, cheaper- better in every way!)
Bad barrel distortion
May be if one is in to only shooting brickwalls. 😉
But there are many straight lines in the world, not just walls.
you presented this lens and the link is up there in the first line of the links. Now, I can tell you that I can get same DOF with a 1.6 lens on apsc, the depth of field of 1cm or 8 mm in full open makes here not much difference. No need to put 1600$ over the edge when you can get a HD cine lens in 35-1.6 who does as good for 85$. Anyway, this lens is APSC only, and the company works on a FF lens. If that will happen, it will be 2500$ probably, and since most complain to not be able to find a sharp point w at full open with the Mitakon 0.95, I doubt that such a lens makes sense, nor does it’s price.
Se this shot taken with the 35-1.6 HD C mount lens on NEX-7, you see that the depth of field is just a 2 cm, with a 0.85 this will be reduced to 1 cm, but does that matters? And do not forget, 85$ and needs rework to compensate purple fringing that all those lenses do anyway.
I don’t see any need for ridiculously fast lenses, but that example is absurd.
DOF is a function of aperture and subject distance. Sure, you can get the same DOF with a slower lens – but only if you’re focusing closer.
You can get DOF much shallower than 8mm with a 200mm F/4 macro but nobody runs around telling people nobody needs anything faster than that for DOF control. Presumably because most people interested in DOF will also be interested in shooting something farther than few dozen centimeters away.