Need for speed? f/0.95 from Nokton or SLRmagic are not enough for you? Than look at that super fast new Ibelux 40mm f/0.85 lens displayed at the Cp+ show in Yokohama! It’s made by Kipon and the German company IBE. It will come in July in E, MFT, M, EOS-M and X mount! Price hasn’t been decided yet but it should be somewhere between 950 and 1200 Euro. This is the fastest lens ever released for a modern digital mirrorless system! If you have any doubt about the real final image quality than you should know that the German company IBE (Click here) has a long history of very high quality video lenses. So let’s hope the lens is somewhat decent at full aperture. But at f/0.85 aperture and 40mm aperture I can imagine myself expressing plenty of badwords before I can manage to focus on the right spot!
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Problem focusing? Digital split focus ftw. Can’t wait for the next X-Pro with the new sensor that includes pdaf 🙂 focusing this lens will be far easier then on any other system.
oh my god, this is sick XD just look at this size! it totally beats the purpose of mirrorless cameras…portability.
I need this one to compensate for my small penis !
55-58 mm f/1.2 or 85 mm f/1.8 lenses on FF aren’t that impossible to focus. From a technical point f/0.85 is great achievement, it is also a great enrichment for mirrrorless cameras, though the barebones adapter relativises this.
But a DOF as thin as this is not something extraordinary, it is typical portray prime DOF.
Will I see a difference compared to my 50mm f/0.92?
Of course you will, the field of view and depth of field will be different. This is a very silly question. Think “Will this Toyota Hiace be different to my VW Golf?”
Of course it will be. *moan*
If only it was bigger…
It looks like a laser cannon.. Anyway, what’s the purpose for a brighter lens than the already available bright f0.95 ones from Voigtländer, Leica and SLR Magic?
cool but a bit too big for the tiny NEX5/6 line of cameras.
maybe it is good on the GH3 or Fuji XP1.
Wow! Maybe major manufacturers have disappointed so far in 2013., but the small ones have certainly not. Metabones, IBE, Cosina and SLR Magic have announced very interesting stuff.
Let’s hope IBE will make more fast lenses like this.
f/0.85 is only one third stop faster than f/0.95
I think many people comment without a single thought except from their own, isolated perspective. To the “It’s too big” crowd: A lens is a physical structure adhering to the laws of science (and reality). One could increase the size to accommodate more light uptake for decreased vignette, but there is a minimum size necessary in order to have the lens cover the target sensor size with a set degree of quality to the edges of the frame. The target audience – aficionados of shallow dof, bokeh, low light shooting and specialty portraits among others – will not give a single damn the size of this item understanding this.
The straight fact is it’s not too big, for what it is. Kudos to Ibelux for trying something cool, I’ll be waiting to check it out.
It’s not clear since Pentax applies heavy NR to RAWs