I just got this picture and the full specs of the soon to be announced Mitakon 50mm f/0.95 Full Frame E-mount lens! Like I already told you before the lens will be unveiled on April 20th and costs $799 only. It’s Mitakon second E-mount lens after the [shoplink 14656 ebay]35mm f/0.95 lens for ASP-C E-mount cameras (they are on auction here on eBay)[/shoplink] which unlike the new 50mm lens doesn’t cover the FF sensor area. Image samples of the soon to come 50mm lens can be seen on that SAR post (Click here).
The lens will ship in May and these are the specs:
Lens mount: Sony FE
Focal length: 50mm
Optics: 10 Elements (7 groups)
Image cover: 35mm full frame
Max. Aperture: f/0.95
Min. Aperture: f/16
Filter size: 58mm
Lens size: 87mm (L) x 68.5mm (diameter)
Weight: 720g.
Preorders will be taken from April 20th at eBay MXcamera. WIll link to the exact page as soon as it’s online!
Here is the lens design:
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Nice but a bit heavy.
Better than a lighter plastic one.
definitely a specialty lens…..can’t wait for a full review!
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And one more 50mm lens. The hell knows what they find so interesting in the 50mm format. It is the lens that generally takes dust in the case at most common photographers, and despite that, the lens manufacturers seem to venerate this size like a God format. Why not a 24 and a 35mm, it would make sense.
much smaller then I expected it. Looks like I’m definitely getting one!
Beat you to it 😉
Why they don’t make a 50mm f/1.2 or 1.4 for 300-400 dollar? (because of probably lower optical qualities than their competitiors?)
You will be surprised 😉
This lens is fully manual and you can get so many 50mm 1.2 or 1.4 legacy lenses for cheap on ebay. Why would you need a brand new one?
Where is it made? Is it plastic or metal? What about its resolving power?
It is made by Zhongyi tech which is from China, however I have heard that they OEM lenses for the Japanese too. All metal parts I assume.
AF or manual ?
reading others comments, sound like a manual focus lens
Wow. Smaller than I thought it would be. Its a bit on the heavy side but considering the Canon 50mm f1.0 is almost 1kg and the Leica 50mm f0.95 is 700g, this thing is reasonable.
I am very interested to say the least.
Hope for some good reviews ^_^
Is this another of these glorified CCTV C-mount lenses re-branded, modified and well marketed?
do you know any cctv lens that covers fullframe?
Where are the photos shot with this? So we can see how it renders.
Did you try googling that? ‘Cause I just did and the entire first page were the sample photos. It wasn’t exactly difficult to find.
The official samples were said to be seriously rigged, you may need 3rd party results.
i think i will get the sigma but i am curious if you really can focus in full frame 0.95 for a wedding work let say is that practical ! even with peaking
You are going to need zoom focus confirmation to be dead on focus at f0.95 – no question
I used canon 50mm f0.95 on A7 for more than 20 wedding work so far, so no worries at all.
@SAR_Admin:disqus: do you know it it will have a clickless aperture?
Manual Aperture Ring or Electronic? Any electronics at all (like A7 to be able to reading aperture value)?
most probably no electronics
Good news, and very well priced. even if doesn’t perform well wide open, we’re gonna shoot it at 1.4 or f/2 after all.
In Hong Kong, it cost only $5999 HKD or $769 USD but I don’t know whether it is an early bird discount since they don’t specified
http://www.dcfever.com/trading/view.php?itemID=2512160
I like what I see. I have the Canon 50/0.95 which is shorter (but with 72mm filter) and weighs about the same.
Any info on the hood?
There’s probably no hood, as with the 35/0.95. A metal screw-in hood is probably required.
That’s acknowledged speculation though.
Whoa, full frame f/0.95 – that’s some SERIOUS shallow DOF! Very cool. If it’s really good stopped down a stop, this could be a killer lens.
this and the 35mm lenses are perfect for us APSC users. Since I shoot a lot of architecture, the added DOF boost is preferred, but for those times im trying to go for a more artistic or dreamy look, these lenses appear to fit the bill! Almost like having the benefits of both sensor sizes :
Imagine the low light possibilities combining this lens with the A7S.,
My mind just exploded.
I wish this were a 85/1.2 or 24/1.2 lens. We already have an excellent alternative in that focal length; the Sony Zeiss 55/1.8.
Yes, I know this is a f/0.95 lens BUT lusting after a thin DOF, I think one should go for a narrower focal length. I’d also rather have a 24/1.2 or 21/1.4ish lens since that’d also give me a lens with a very unique look.
Still, at this price point, I’m considering buying one.
I like that the DOF scale for f/0.95 seems to be just the line pointing to that distance 😎
Hmm, 10-lens design without ASPH elements makes me a bit sceptic.
If they would offer it with M-mount, the options to adapt it to different mirrorless systems (including Leica M 240) would be significantly versatile.
it wouldn’t fit into an m-mount, for that the rear elements are either too close to the mount or are too large in diameter…
The lack of ASPH elements could result in smoother out of focus areas (on paper) like medium format lenses. The noctilux does not have bokeh like medium format lenses…
I am glad that this is NOT made in M mount. SLR magic lens brand 50/0.95 got put down so much by some Leica folks that they discontinued their M mount lens altogether. Leica users get serviced by Leica/Zeiss-Cosina. Plenty to go around for them. Besides why bother with range finder coupling as such when there is fabulous live view. 🙂
As for other mirrorless users, none have the need for a full frame lens and it is a terrible waste to mount this on a APS-C or m43rds.
What? The Noctilux seems to have bad colors (at least no Leica magic) due to the exotic elements used, and I’ve seen a test that concluded that the SLR magic 50/0.95 is just is sharp as the Noctilux wide open, with some other slight advantage, but I’ve forgotten what.
You probably do not know the history and all the vitriol that went on. Just leave it and be happy that this is available in E mount. 🙂
Okay…? I’m not a Leica user after all.
Bad colours? You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. It has some of the best colour of any lens, period.
Well… If I remember correctly, Erwin Puts always claimed that Leica was only accurately reproducing colors… Or something like that, and according to his graph, that lens was way off…
Besides that is the review I saw and my own judgement of the samples, there didn’t seem to be much special about the rendition, unlike say… The 21/2.8?
That’s wrong. The HyperPrime CINE 50mm T0.95 can stil be ordered from SLR Magic worldwide and the LM version (same build but with RF calibration) is available in Hong Kong when you provide your personal M so that the lens can be calibrated exactly to it.
It is still on par with the Noctilux even if some of “the Leica folks” do not want it to be true. As Fuji is also planning a fullframe mirrorless, the design with an M-mount would not be a mistake. Many APS-C users love it as a portrait lens with a DOF comparable to a 75/1.4 on FF.
If the rear element does not fit into the throat of a Leica M camera, it will propably stll fit into many M-to-E or M-to-X adapters.
I have no interest in Fuji stuff (whatever format) and as a Sony user, glad to see an E mount offering. The others (canon EosM, Pentax Q, Nikon 1, Fuji X, Samsung NX, m43rds) have plenty of choices and adapters. If they do not have any choice, well, they should dump their stuff and switch to the E mount platform. 🙂
58mm filter size for 50/0.95? Seems a bit small. I expect heavy vignetting at wide apertures.
yep, that is good to know… Company’s (marketing goons?) too often think it’s ok to fudge on the specs… in other words it’s not 0.95 and if the truth be know probably closer to 1.1 or 1.2 or something. That said, we should understant it’s not always their fault, if they want to compete with the others who started the close enough game. It’s up to us to keep them honest and support the ones who advertise true to spec.
Is it not right that F≠T, and that marketing people “massage the truth”? 🙂
May-be its not full frame lens?
The lens design reminds me of some Astro-Berlin design from the 50s.
Admin:
Some additional information, this is how they’re advertising it:
4 lanthanum elements with a refractory index of 1.9, one lanthanum low dispersion element. Overall distortion no more than 2%. Field curvature less than 0.1mm(is this measured in length?).
The design philosophy:”designed to be as light as possible”,”lower CA and increase central sharpness as much as possible”
They claim to have achieved:”very high performance in the center 80% of the frame”,”CA controlled within 0.01mm”,”corner performance degradation no more than 20%”
That’s the problem with E-mount, often it does not cover FF.
Wat?
Now, we need a 85mm f0.95 or 135mm f1.4, which would be the kings of portrait!
Only if you can get them sharp wide open, which this lens is not.
Will prob have a t-stop of 1.2 or worse…
Oh great another ‘APO’ and ‘ED’ lens that has the same resolution as a $49 fresnel lens from Edmund Scientific. I think I’ll shoot with my Otus and bump the ISO up from 100 to 400 and be miles ahead.
Where can I buy an Otus for ~ $800? I’ll buy two!
Ill buy 10 !!!
I think he’s talking about the ‘baby Otus,’ referring to the 55mm f1.8 FE lens being negligibly as sharp as the Otus… although it is still no Otus.
I see. I have a “baby Otus”, but it is not the target market for an f/0.95 lens. The could co-exist in my kit quite nicely!
When the baby Otus is around the same price I don’t get these off brand lenses, the Sony Zeiss 55 is such a lovely lens wide open. What’s the appeal here?
autofocus?
Of course. And OSS.
Not
heya, i just got it, and started reviewing it on:
http://www.yannickciancanelli.com/manual-lens-review-mitakon-50mm-0-95-speedmaster-on-a-sony-a7/
cheers 🙂