Our reader “Zetton” sent us this pictures of the new Ibelux 40mm f/0.85 and Ibegon 12mm f/2.8 lenses. The Ibelux is the fastest native mirrorless system camera lens to date and will ship for $2,000 in March. The Ibegon will cost a bot over $600 but launch date is unknown yet.
6 Responses
The Ibelux 40mm 0.85 looks very interesting. However the $1,500.00 Panny Leica DG 42.5mm 1.2 is already highly outside the price range of many photographers. One manual focus lens hyper prime that costs more than the upcoming GH4 is quite a step. I Personally can’t afford this.
Products like this, they are niche regardless of their cost. Most people will simply not have the patience to even focus a shot on a 40mm f/0.85 lens shot wide open. Recognizing that, there is more chance that the high price is based entirely around expected low demand rather than particularly expensive parts. And if they are right, and building the business around that expectation, they won’t need to sell too many to get profits.
Odds are, the vast majority of people willing to buy this are going to be using it for artsy video and crap like that. People who have already lost perspective on the real world anyway 🙂
I agree.
Just that people buying such lens doesn’t mean you can predict how they are or what they will do with it. I could also say that I predict a sense of frustration in your words, but prob you are a capable photographer anyway?
He just said a “vast majority of people willing to buy this” and I agree. Maybe some pros really need to buy this. Anyway, probably better option than a Leica Noctilux for $11.000
thank you for picking up my photos!
They were taken at CP+ 2014.