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What you see here is the Handevision 40mm f/0.85 X-mount lens which is now in Stock for the first time in [shoplink 24970 ebay]Germany on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. Handevision also announced that worldwide shipment will start soon and added some image sample son their website: handevision.de/en/impressions/.
Ok, it’s fast and image samples look decent too…but 1799 Euro? Who will buy it?
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$2450 for Made In China Lens… it must have a reason to price
I guess it is 1000 for German design, 450 for Chinese manufacturing and extra 1000 just because they can, knowing there are plenty of rich dads that will buy this for their spoiled daughters. Just like I see 15 year olds on the streets with L lenses taking pictures of coffecups!
I Like cofffee cups
not in my streets, thanks god! at least not 15-yr olds… (I can’t say for the coffee cups)
I don’t see anything wrong in teens shooting L glass, I did the same. I actually don’t see a point in non-L glass photography (apart from travel). Everybody start with something, why not coffee cups). But L lens is not comparable to the OP lens, a workhorse vs pink nail polish.
If only it was AF…
and weather proof….and a zoom….
You forgot free.
Cam on who is gone a by this?
Is that Australian English?
Carn mate, I got no bloody idea what this bloke’s on about either.
“Come on. Who is going to buy this?”.
I think we all know what its supposed to say.
I got a similar one, but the e-mail notification looks just fine compared to what he wrote.
sounds more like Texas to me? or could be Scottish? we should ask for a sound file. 😀
I don’t like the character of the samples
Not sure I do either, I’m not neccesarily too fond of the bokeh it produces.
Actually, it is quite bad that they didn’t hire a professional photographer to shoot some really impressive samples. Really boring uninspiring images. I ‘m pretty shure that this lens is capable of much better results when in the right hands.
at least it should be for this price.
This kind of lens should be used with Sony or Olympus due to better focus peaking and 5-Axis IBIS. For Fuiji bodies, XF lens is more than good enough.
The XT1 works great with manual lenses… Also IBIS is unnecessary for fast lenses. If your shooting at 0.85, your definitely not using a slow shutter speed. Fuji also has superb high ISO, so IBIS is hardly as useful.
If you want a clear photo, corner to corner, you will likely have to stop down quite a lot.
One doesn’t buy a lens like this for perfect detail .. come on.
However, if someone is buying the lens at such a price, thinking that the lens is stunning wide open, they will be unhappy.
It would be a bad assumption to think that everyone understands the huge compromise these kinds of lenses make to be so compact and provide such a maximum aperture.
IBIS or OIS is still necessary even for fast lens. I had some experiences shooting landscape in poor light with f2.8 and no tripod. With 5AXIS, I can hold my camera even 1s shutter!
At f0.85, I think your image will be awfully soft.
For this price, it should come with a free NEX. Way too expensive to waste on a 2x crop body imho, especially with Voigtlander around. The 5-axis IBIS is great for nighttime video indeed, but then F0.95 will do fine. Unless of course you’re making a medium big production movie and absolutely must shoot handheld and are unable to use a counterweight in a tight space, then sure this F0.10 difference combined with Olympus’ IBIS can make all the difference. 😉
Great! With this baby I can surround my subjects with even globbier globs of glob to compensate for choosing a less busy background. It’ll make people who view my photos of Junior grinning on a trike in our driveway get stomach butterflies by how damn dreamy and buttery the whole thing is.
That cheeky snap I took of the dahlia in my neighbour’s garden, you ask? With this piece of kit I can blur out the petals just behind *and* in front of the stamen. Desktop backgrounds for the whole family, signifying the fragility of life like no other lens can render!
Not to mention that f/0.85 will give me access to a whole new world of low light imagery featuring cats on the sidewalk in washed-out streetlamp light. (Sure the cat is OOF, but I didn’t spend 1800 EUR not to open her up wide now did I?)
I’ll be one happy camper with this little gem. Take my credit card now, Handevision!
Yeah, but it would still be better with Full Frame.
/sarcasm
Why not have the option of globbier globs? I don’t understand people’s hate on for a shallow DoF. If you know how to use it, then use it.
There’s a lot of hate in the Fujifilm camp. Tremendous hate.
Too bad it is not a full frame lens, with a Speedbooster it could have been a killer lens on m43.
Sure… I want to buy this crap instead of XF 56mm f/1.2…
Fast aperture isn’t everything.
The SLRMagic 0.95/35 samples look better to me?
almost harley davidson
ok so this lens with No AF and covering crop sensor only weighs 1.15 kilos. I wonder what a lens with this speed would weigh if it was designed for full frame. 3-4 kilos? Add AF, another kilo?
I’m not aware of a FF 60mm and roughly f/1.2 lens for full frame. The Leica Noctilux-M is a FF and weighs 0.68 kilos. It’s wider and faster at 50mm f/0.95. It’s also $10k USD.
well you are converting it to Full Frame Equivalent, which is correct in one sense, but at the same time 0.85 still requires glass to pass through 0.85, not 1.2 F so it maybe even larger.
Nah, a f 0,8 APS-C lens is roughly the same size as a f 1.2 full frame lens, if both have the same angle of view.
Aperture = focal / diameter of the optic
If we use it the otherway around (diameter = focal/aperture) then
60/1.2 = 50mm
40/0.8 = 50mm
A 200mm f2 has an optic of 100mm of width … pay the filter…
A 400mm f2.8 = 14cm optic diameter
Etc…
And finally, I ll end saying my wildest dream! I hope one day a manufacturer will make a zoom 20-50mm f2 (in 35mm equivalent)
The Leica 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux weighs 700g and has an aps-c equivalence of a 35mm f0.63. So there you have it, full frame lenses can actually be smaller and lighter than their aps-c counterparts if both lenses collect the same total amount of light, and not only light per square inch. Generally they have the same size and weight. An other fine example would be the nikon 85mm 1.8g weighing around 350 grams while the fuji 56mm 1.2 weighs 400 grams probably due to its better build. Both lenses create the same image when used on the right camera body.
Canon 50mm and 85mm f1.2 both weight around 1000g so I guess we can safely bet a 60mm f1.2 could be manufactured around 1000g too!
You like extra wide aperture?
Go for Minolta Rokkor 58mm f1.2, and add a speed booster (AKA focal reducer, lens turbo…) and you will end up with the equivalent (on APS-C) of 42mm f0.85.
(See sample attached, Rokkor MC 58mm f1.2 1/80s @ f1.2 ISO 500, ambient light on focal reducer with Fuji X-m1)
By the way:
– Rokkor 58mm f1.2=$499
– Speed booster=$100
– Bonus: regular adapter=$10 (because a 58mm f1.2 can also be used as is…)
where?? I only find more expensive speedboosters..?!
Mmmh, that’s weird, it seems that the cheap Zhongyi’s are out of eBay…showing up as Mitakon and priced twise expensive:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitakon-Lens-Turbo-Focal-Reducer-for-Fujifilm-X-mount-Body-Minolta-MD-FX-cam-/221294929107?pt=US_Lens_Adapters_Mounts_Tubes&hash=item338634a4d3
I could get one of these at $110 in November 2013 (see attached).
Oh yes, a FF DSLR is expensive. And heavy.
It’s over priced. I have a Nikon 50mm F1.2 lens and Metabones speed booster for under $900 for the pair, giving me a 35mm f0.85 lens on my Fuji XT-1. Here’s an example:
Seemingly nice lens. Can’t say I’ve heard of them before or know what quality to expect.. for MFT (& X Mount), it should make a fast portrait lens given the initial limited specs and impressions.
The sample images appear pretty nice, but I’m not sure if the high price tag is justified compared to similar focal length primes.
Hmm.. at 1700 EUR, that’s like $2500 USD?!
I’m just not sure how much better the IQ will be compared to similar fast primes for MFT (& X Mount)?
Talking MFT:
I’d opt for the Pany-Leica Nocticron for $900 less (@ $1600), and even that’s stretching for a nice prime on MFT, but it is just within reason of saying it’s worth it.. Leica design and AF and f1.2 isn’t too shabby at all.
Or, go with similar build, manual focus and fast aperture with the Voigtlander Nokton 42.5 f/0.95 for $1500 less (@ $1000).
Talking X-Mount: You’re probably better off with the native Fujinon 56mm f1.2 for $1500 less.. it performs great and has AF. Maybe even a SLR Magic Hyperprime will do the job for a lot less, also.
crop lens of f0.85 is about less than half stop faster than full frame F1.4.About f1.2 on full frame. if you want bokeh, go full frame. if you want image quality , go full frame. if you want dynamic range, go full frame. If you want lightweight and cheap set, go APS-C or 4/3. No point getting a small body and add a huge lens on it. No thanks.
I agree to some point but Fuji is releasing a bunch of pro, and large, lenses next year and there’s a lot of hype.
LOL, if you want image quality go large format. If you want dynamic range go large format. If you want bokeh go large format. I mean, 35mm was a huge quality compromise from large and medium formats. The poseurs camera. How people forget…
I bet you’d fail at this test: http://guesstheformat.com/photo
NO AF, NO OIS = NO BUY !!!!
I guess you’ll never buy a Leica or Voigtlander lens. I wouldn’t touch this lens but IS and AF doesn’t make a lens magical.
@Ricky, I am with you. Only superb lens must feature AF or OIS;otherwise! it is just mediocre glass.
Read this…
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/noktor/
That would be my dream lens on full frame …
Anyone know if this is a “real” still photography lens, or is it a nicely disguised CCTV lens, like the link that Rick Miller shares below. Thanks Rick!