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Guys! It may be not a good quality lens but this is to date the fastest lens for a digital mirrorless system! It is the IBELUX 40mm f/0.85 for Sony E-mount! It’s made by Kipon and the German IB/E OPTICS. It will be on market by July and price has yet to be defined. Stanley Kubrick would have loved this news. He shot Barry Lyndon on an even faster lens, the Zeiss f/0.7 (Source: Visual-memory). There is also a Leica Leitz for security cameras with f/0.75 ([shoplink 16747 ebay]on auction here on eBay[/shoplink]). But this lens is designed for the Sony NEX system and hopefully quality will be decent enough!
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how much? if under 1500, sold
Joe, I don’t think so. For the manufactures to really give it to the consumers, any f start with 0., at least $3500!
More over, if chromed out, that means bend over.
Silvered rings, metal barrel… my bet goes for 15 000 $
US$ 1.500,– seems to become a 3:1 chance you’ll buy this lens: http://photorumors.com/2013/02/02/new-ibelux-40mm-f0-85-lens-for-mirrorless-cameras/
Wow… this lens makes Nex look tiny… look pretty…
Stick a metabones adapter on this and you may just have the fastest lens in the universe. :p
The adaptor only works on NON-E-mount lenses – it fills/closes the gap from SLR flange-distances to the E-mount flange. This lens is just designed fast -to emount from the start.
Like all lenses <f/1.4, you will experience huge loss of rays at higher incident angles unless the sensor's architecture and lenslets are optimized for this.
Buy telescope, stack 12 metabones, get the lens that can see through the buildings!
Since the lens seems very long for a 40 mm, it probably already has an adapter similar to the Metabones speedbooster. Or two 🙂
Cool!!
The fastest created lens was (I think) the Zeiss 40mm f0.33
Just a joke of Zeiss Designers when Leica sold their f0.95 ^^
You can’t realy take good photos with it, but it works 🙂
http://donzshadows.blogspot.fr/2012/08/zeiss-super-q-gigantar-40mm-f033.html
Correction, it’s not working, only a kind of mock-up.
There’s a Fujinon 25/0.85 CCTV lens, but I don’t think its image circle is that big. Nice to see more options for ultrafast lenses.
Amusingly, the info about the Ibelux on IB/E Optics site links to this article on SAR. Looks like you’ve become the official news source, Andrea.
With that Fujinon 25/0.85, infinity focus is impossible (shutter gets in the way!)and the image circle is ~10mm.
I love fast lenses. I look forward to how this transpires.
At the moment, the Speed Booster + an Olympus OM 50/1.2 just rocks! 🙂
Looks to be well made at least, it’s hard to tell from pictures but it appears very solid.
This is in f-stops so I bet it isn’t more light transmissive than the Mitakon/SLR Magic T0.96 35mm
40/0.85 > 35/0.96
He might be right, note the SLR Magic lens is measure in T-stops not F-stop.
I wish all lenses can with a T-stop designation, but I guess we have to count on Dxomark to report transmittance of various lenses to us…
looks sexy but also deadly… i feel like i can smash a person’s head with it.
The silver version looks awesome but much more like a 135mm lens or even longer.
I will go broke, but I will buy it! I must.
Isn’t the nex unable to go under f1.0? (at least properly identify it?)
I can’t help but think it will be terribly difficult to get any usefulness out of such a lens. I find a 1.2 to have a DOF that is often too shallow wide open, I can only imagine the 0.85 would be beyond silly.
The Zeiss lens used by Kubric is a 50mm f/0.7 (not f/0.75)
Looks sexy but is there really a point in making something like this??
This is going to be expensive, I’m willing to bet somewhere in the $3500 neighborhood (like the SLR Magic 50/0.95), in other words the cost of a used 5d2 + 50/1.2 + Sigma 35/1.4.
I’m sure the likes of Steve Huff will be all over it though.
Why buy the 50/1.2 when you can get a Sigma 50/1.4 and 85/1.4 for the same price? 🙂
Becuase most folks who buy this lens outside of working users are posers. Posers who have to have the sharpest lens, even if its sharper by 1 percent, for posers who have to have the fastet lens, the most expensive, the most rare, the most limited, it gives posers a reason to keep going
A lens for gearheads, not for photographers…
This will look great on the Hasselblad NEX…
look here, they think the lense will cost around 950 – 1200€, when that is true i buy one for my NEX-7