Zyoptics (also known as Mitakon) posted those images of their 135mm f/1.4 Speedmaster Full Frame lens! They did not specify when the lens will be launched and in what mount it will be available. On those pictures you can see it will certainly come for Canon EF mount. The Sony may use an adapter or a proper E-mount version of the lens. We don’t know yet. All current Speedmasters are sold for Canon-Nikon and Sony E-mount (Click here to see them on eBay).
I made a quick check and the fastest Full Frame lens I found is the Zeiss 135mm f/1.8 (Click here). If I am correct this should make the new Speedmaster the new fastest 135mm FF lens out there!
More images of the lens (Click on it to enlarge):
Low resolution image samples:
As soon as I have more info about the lens I will let you know!
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Except for price, the 200mm f/2.0 with AF might be a better option.
I just put my Samyang 135mm /f2.0 on my Aps-c camera and BAM! I have a 200mm f/2.0 – eq absolutely pristinely tack-sharp wide open.
Wow, I just got the Samyang 135mm F2 which is amazingly sharp beating Canon and Nikon but I cant wait to see how this Mitakon performs. Their 85mm 1.2 is still on my list!
Bigger versions of the pictures:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/68748978@N02/913Er8
Thanks Mistral!
> I made a quick check and the fastest Full Frame lens I found is the Zeiss 135mm f/1.8
Carl ,Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm f/1.8 ZA is the fastest 135mm currently available but there have been several 135mm f/1.8 in the past:
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/9122/135mmf18opticsdiagram.jpg
and even a Vivitar Professional 135mm f/1.5 in the ’60s:
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Vivitar_Professional_135mm_f/1.5
> I made a quick check and the fastest Full Frame lens I found is the Zeiss 135mm f/1.8
Carl ,Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm f/1.8 ZA is the fastest 135mm currently available but there have been several 135mm f/1.8 in the past:
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/1344/135mmf18optics.jpg
and even a Vivitar Professional 135mm f/1.5 in the ’60s, “five inches long, four inches wide, weighing a hefty four pounds, eight ounces.“:
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Vivitar_Professional_135mm_f/1.5
Very interesting, especially the fact that all of them except Zeiss are so primitive optically. 3-group 5-element Soligor is especially funny. 🙂
If you could get it done with less elements, you don’t use more. There’s the element of the elegance of a design which many ignore these days.
Except of course they cannot do it even now (even with much more advanced asphirical etc elements) just as they could not then. Not nearly good enough for modern resolutions.
What makes you think it’s a matter of tech? It’s a matter of cost. An element with a 1/10 yield can obviously be made but will not be used on anything other than made-to-order products. And these individual orders will not be accepted unless the companies are paid millions.
Oh my, I only heard of the pentax before…
Who is this guy? He appeared in the sample photos for the Mitakon 85mm f/1.2, but in a black coat. It’s like they tested these lenses with only few months interval.
Vivitar had a 135mm F1.5
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jou have linked the pictures wrong, please correct
They are all there:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/68748978@N02/sets/72157659989744331/
At $3k USD, fuck no. Samyang all the way. Hell, one could get a couple of the Nikon DC at that price.
“f I am correct this should make the new Speedmaster the new fastest 135mm FF lens out there!”
Not just FF, but any current 135mm lens. Not that it expands the field the whole lot – the few medium format and large format 135mm lenses I know are all f/5.6.
Big, heavy and probably expensive. Great bokeh possibilities. Wish they would go wider rather than longer.
Announced and available for pre-order:
http://www.zyoptics.net/product/pre-order-mitakon-speedmaster-135mm-f1-4/
– 11 elements, including 3 large ED elements, in 5 groups
– minimum focusing distance: 1,6m
– 11 aperture blades
– click-less aperture ring
– filter thread: 105mm
– weight: 3kg
– Canon EF, Nikon F and Sony E mounts
– first batch limited to less than 100 pieces
– tentative delivery date: early 2016
– price: $2,999 (including $500 down payment for pre-order).
Coming from Mitakon I thought it woulld be in the range of $2000…
So did I, together with a 2+kg weight (it was the weight of the Vivitar Professional 135mm f/1.5). It’s heavier and more costly than I thought.
Samyang has a 135/1.4? This is your DrunkenRant right?
At 135, 2.0 is plenty fast and the Samyang is plenty sharp wide-open. Mitakon are the drunk one’s on this one. It’ll flop as they got too ambitious, had they offered a 1.8 at $700ish, they’d have sold like hot cakes.