You may have missed that but lats weekend some Chinese site posted a fake image of a 12mm f/1.0 FE E-mount lens. As a rumor site it’s my duty to tell you that the image you see is a fake. To better show you how funny that fake is SAR reader Steve (Thanks!) shows you how big the lens would look on the A7 🙂
As a side not if the lens would be real I guess the size could really be like that!
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Only a smidge bigger than an Otus. 😉
The only possible way to shrink the size of a super wide angle with a super fast aperture lens is through curved sensor technology. The lens won’t have to be so huge in able to correct all the light rays and wavelengths. The curved sensor will make wide and fast lens possible and will want to have this camera! especially the landscape photographer #SeeImpossible #CurvedSensorIsComing #JustATease
Focal length and aperture have far more of an impact on size then adding elements for corrections, there is no free lunch.
I can’t think of one landscape photog that would want to take a 3lb lens on a hike to have average performance at f1.0, most prefer to shoot at f8.
The only use I can think of is astro shots, but only if stars are points of light and not blobs, and street shots.
I doubt we’ll see a curved sensor interchangeable lens camera any time soon, because all lenses made till now would be next to useless.
>Focal length and aperture have far more of an impact on size
only for longer focal lengths…
the simplest 12 f/1 lens is a 12 mm element placed 12 mm from image plane, that is, entirely fitting in mount itself.
A post like this perpetuates the stereotype that E mount must be small..
This is why people think of E mount as toys not suitable to real photography but only for amateurs and children with small hands.
If that is not the image you want for E mount than posts like this need to go.
I need real lenses and they are big…so I would look foolish carrying an E mount camera.
Nice sarcasm.
Clearly you don’t recognize sarcasm.
Of course I do. I think any professional or artist could use any camera of any brand of these years to make “real” photography. If that photographer has to blame the camera calling it a “toy” or an excuse to don’t get correct compositions then I guess it’s sarcasm or the photographer is a camera tester.
What the hell are you talking about?
The guy who pictured the lens didn’t do any calculations, the shape pictured is good for a catadioptric design, but not wideangle. There are no reasons why 12 f/1 would be much larger than already avaiable 50 f/0.95
Well, Chinese are not known for their strength in math or physics – so i guess that is as close for a fake lens as we can get. Even fake lens are fake in square if they are made in China. lol
I think you are confused between the entrance pupil diameter and the size of the lens elements for such a wide lens to minimize vignette, distortion, CA and to maximize resolution.
HULK advise Sony: Bring out lens like this, not so puny. Maybe HULK not smash!
It’s a Hulk lens, we want small lens. Bye
What an embarrassing nickname…
It’s the perfect lens for m43 users with tiny hands!
Well, I remember a Nikon fisheye just as ridiculous and that one was real.
Did it even allow you to get a fingers around the grip?
I know this one’s fake, just saying…
You mean A7II. Looks like us A7 users will have no problem without that grip in the way.
In the wilderness that lens come handy if a have to go to the bathroom. 😀 😀 😀