I love the creativity of Mr. Miyazaki! He created all sorts of fantastic handmade lenses especially for the Leica M-mount. Like the famous and incredible small . And now he created an amazing Sonnetar 25mm f/1.1 for Pentax Q mount! It’s the fastest lens for Q mount and I am sure it is a top performer too!
You can get the lens right now on . I really like these one man creations and I hope he will make some more lenses for other mirrorless systems too.
Thanks Jeremy for sending me this!
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Very cute! 🙂
Too expensive and only for a toy camera. 🙁
really cool. is the 25mm 35mm equivalent? I’m interested in the Q for availability of fun, inexpensive lenses but doing something the opposite like this is also very intriguing.
If my calculations are correct, that’s 135mm equivalent. 135mm at f/1.1 is very nice!
Too bad, it’s way out of my price league for now – both the lens and the camera, but I hope that’ll change.
No, it’s more like 140mm field of view and f/5.6 depth of field equivalent of full frame cameras.
You are correct! I have used a 25/1.4 C-Mount lens via adapter with the Q and it’s not bad. Miyazaki has a rep of making wonderful lenses for the M bet this will be amazing as well
Just keep in mind that it will have the DOF that a f/5.6 135 mm lens would have on fullframe (or 85 mm f/4 on DX).
very nice, Pentax itself should make a couple of super fast prime like this for Q mount
the Q is no more overpriced, it can be found for 329£ in kit with the normal prime 50mm f/1,9 equivalent (in uk), good replacement for who want a very compact camera
looks like a top notch lens and f1.1 is the right idea! Wish he made one for sony or fuji mount.
Pretty much the reason for the Q’s existence, hopefully Pentax gets the memo soon.
I guess Pentax wants to get a more standard system out first but I can’t help but hope that they make some really fast primes in between as well. especially towards the tele end…
will this adapter to the nikon j1/v1?
Well, an expensive f/5.6 135 mm eq. on a toycam? Who cares.
25mm f/1.1 gives you a DOF of about 6 inches, at 10 feet away. Sounds perfect.
The light gathering is still f1.1. God I am so sick of DOF being the only function of an aperture to most people. Personally the idea of a 135mm lens with the DOF of an f5.6 but the low light ability of a 1.1 very very appealing indeed.
I have got these available on my site now. I have tested it and it is a lot of fun for such a small lens. Come and check it out.