If speed is what you are looking for and money stagnates in mas son your bank account than you will certainly be interested in getting the new Ibelux 40mm f/0.85 APS-C E-mount lens. It’s the fastest native E-mount lens and as some said here on SAR this lens may be able to shoot ghosts at night 🙂
The lens is now in Stock at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). And will ship soon in Germany too at Technikdirekt.
And finally we have a first review of the lens posted by DC.watch (google translation here). They tested the X-mount version but results will be exactly the same on the E-mount version. This is what they say about the lens:
– lens quality is very high (made of metal and nice glossy painted black).
– smooth focus ring and very accurate. A bit weak click when using the aperture ring (sometimes you may don’t notice it and rotate further).
– sharpness is decent wide open and improves dramatically at f/2.8 towards.
– There is some fringe at wide aperture
– It has a “gentle” blur
– no major ghost or flare issue
Sounds good….but the price 🙁
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I have difficulty trying to decide between this and the upcoming QX30.
Buy both!!!
Buy QX30 – then you can start a new life without a camera! You’ll only need a phone and QX30. And you won’t need this lens, because QX30 has a lens on its own.
QX30 is a complete camera just without screen. Many film cameras didn’t have real viewfinders either.
lol
Pro tip: buy QX30, replace lens with this one.
I do need tips from professional buyers. As soon as a preorder link is up for the QX30..
LOL good one!
I’d love to own this, but since it’s so fast I just can’t seem to catch up to it.
Whow, comparatively impressive corners I did not expect at ƒ/0.85, but something I’d like to know is how much is really left from ƒ/0.85 in T-Stops.
My guess is the T stop is around a 1/3rd of a stop slower.
The sample pictures shown here are absolutely horrible…what is the porpose of even showing them?
I am sure the lens will produce much better pictures than these samples…in fact a magnifying glass and cardoard tube would make better pictures than these samples.
This is not a criticism of the lens..just the sample pictures.
these are just crops. check the actual review,the samples look good.
I would need 1/64000, ND 10, and ISO 50 to use that here in Florida during the day.
what a weird focal length… it’s only APS-C I guess…
Equivalent to a 58 (f/1.2) on FF… not that uncommon.
Looks like f/0.85 in daylight is too bright for NEX sensor/shutter
F0.85 in bright daylight is too bright for any camera. In such conditions, you often have to stop down to F3.5 if lowest ISO is 100 and max. shutter speed is 1/4000.
With ISO50 and 1/8000 you can go as low as F1.7 but that is still 2 stops away from F0.85.
So yes, F0.85 is not really a good idea in bright daylight unless you have an ND filter.
Bright clouds get blown at f/2.8, ISO100 and 1/8000 in my experience.
without OSS it is actually f4 handheld.
Only if the object is static. On moving objects, OSS and non-OSS lens requires the same shutter speed.
Makes sense for the Fuji X crowd because they have no FF.
On Sony, you can get an A7 and a 58/1.2 for that sort of price.
that is correct, there’s no reason to get this for sony except for the F0.85 ‘factor’ (which in reality doesn’t have any advantage compared to FF at all)
Plus I don’t think even a slr 58/1.2 with an adapter would be too different in size.
i need this in 25mm and FF … 40mm at apsc is not usable in indoor for me :-/ …
I hate reviewers who test F0.85 on faraway buildings that nobody is ever going to shoot at
And then more test pics of buildings shot at F5.6 that makes it no different to a 18-55 lens
Why not test it on a model FFS!
I would like to see a picture with this lens. Thank you!
compare that to the F1.8 OSS. I bet it will look worse.
So the e-mount crowd which are always filling their diapers over big and heavy a-mount bodies (which they constantly call on Sony to kill) can now enjoy a near normal lens which weighs significantly more than an a99 body including the battery: 1,150 grams versus 812 grams. No irony here. ;^)
But look on the bright side, the Handevision (worst name ever) is cheap… but wait…