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Officially announced back in December here, now the first images of the IBELUX f/0.85 mounted on a Fuji X-camera (X-E1) surfaced the web. They were sent to mirrorlessrumors by their reader Zetton (click here).
The lens should come next month and cost $2000.
Much cheaper at the moment, the XF lenses in the USA (and I hear of Europeans purchasing them in the States, too.)
XF deals
XF 14mm: $200 off (price $700) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 18mm: $200 off (price $400) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 23mm: $150 off (price $750) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 27mm: $250 off (price $200) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 35mm: $150 off (price $450) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 60mm: $250 off (price $400) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
XF 55-200: $200 off (price $500) at BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / Pictureline
via mirrorlessrumors via canonwatch.
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if the image rendering is the same of what we saw , well that’s a waste of speed and money !
I do not agree. How boring would it be if everybody liked everything the same.
http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/amazing-world-s-fastest-lens-for-mirrorless-system-announced-the-40mm-f-0-85-ibelux
At that price it solves a problem and isn’t a toy. It is someone’s dream come true.
I agree , being unique is good. But the unusual distortion , and the misshaped out of focus lights is just too ugly 😐
It’s impressionistic, a very love or hate it rendering.
Wow that huge ‘telescope’ really looks out of place on the small form factor of a mirrorless body. No thanks. I’ll stick with the Fujifilm 56mm 1.2. Not worth the extra speed for the price and practicality.
it’s kinda hard not to think about various combinations of speedbooster + OM/Nikkor/FD that do pretty much the same thing for less than half the cost and size…
or am I missing something?
Is the OM speed boosters out yet??
(I hope I pressed the correct “reply” button)
No OM SB yet, but you can there’s a Kipon EF to X one, and you can adapt almost anything to EF, including OM.
You lose some optical quality by adding extra glass to the optical chain.
You do and you don’t. With the Metabones Speed Booster, you actually gain MTF in the center of the image. The edges do lose a little resolution, but overall, the optical quality remains on a very high level. The Lens Turbo, on the other hand, does fine with longer lenses, but is frankly dreadful in the normal/wide range.
I would have a very hard time believing this lens will be notably better than my Canon FL 55mm f/1.2 on the Speed Booster. That combination is absolutely outstanding, and results in a 39mm f/0.85…just about the same as this lens. It’s smaller, however, and cost me $615 rather than the $2K here.
Here are two images with the 55/1.2+speedbooster, both wide open at f/0.85:
http://www.jordansteele.com/2013/chloe_tree_morning1.jpg
http://www.jordansteele.com/2013/girl_capitol.jpg
Whoops…that first one should be:
http://www.jordansteele.com/2013/chloe_tree_morning.jpg
I hear that a lot but did you see what Dom Bower did on his youtube channel recently? He took his camera and not only shot photos using a UV filter, polarizer, ND filter but he stacked four filters on top of each other and the results, in terms of detail resolution, were not visibly different. He wasn’t even adding glass, some of the filters were plastic. I think the idea that adding this or that in front of your lens is degrading the image is really wildly overblown.
well practically this lens is the same. the design of the lens is almost the same as the legendary zeiss 50 f0.7 . It’s like it has a speed booster inside it. and thats one of the reasons why its so lengthy.
Not mentioned here is that they’re offering a 12mm f/2.8 also
One air flown 60mm fujinon all the way to Singapore as I’m typing, thanks to fujirumor.com of course.
I don’t have it but sure will be over time one of Fuji’s coolest lenses. F2.4 isn’t slow and maybe for most a better lens for portraits as you need the DOF to cover the hole head and a f1.2 won’t do that.
I have the 60mm, BEAUTIFUL rendering lens. However, for indoor work it’s just too slow IMHO. The 56 will be a welcome addition. For flowers and close ups the 60 will still get plenty of use with me though.
Standard studio lit photos is what I was getting to not how the street shooter shoot.
One stop faster than 56/1.2, but 56 is almost 50% longer, so the DOF will be the same or even shallow with 56/1.2. The Fujinon is AF and at half price is a clear winner.
Off topic.
Does anyone from Asia have any idea when XF10-24 is available? I asked Fujifilm’s office in my country but they just said they are not sure either.