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I guess you read it on the web. Plenty of websites reported about the unique Zeiss f/0.7 lens which has been used by Nasa and Stanley Kubrick. You can now rent that lens at Pstechnik.de. But there is no way it fits on your NEX camera. That’s why I wanted to remind you that there is an almost as fast lens you can actually really use! It’s the [shoplink 6323 ebay]De Oude Delft 50mm f/0.75 (here on eBay)[/shoplink].
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The Photographer Aldo Navoni used the [shoplink 6323 ebay]De Oude Delft 50mm f/0.75[/shoplink] (!) on the Sony NEX-5 and you can see the pics on his Flickr page (Click here). It’s doesn’t have the glorious history of the Zeiss lens but if you need as much speed as it gets this is what you have to buy.
You can get the lens on [shoplink 6323 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Useless – I’d rather increase ISO by two stops and deal with the noise rather than take shots as soft as those from the f/0.75 lens.
Harsh words for a lens that came out of an old x-ray machine. The huge aperture was intended to reduce patient exposure to radiation, and for all you or I know it’s tack sharp in the xray spectrum.
Beautiful!
Of course, shooting wide open means that you want to have an immobile target, because the focal plane is razor thin… I usually find this to be a problem with anything below 1.5.
By the way, I very much love the Olympus Zuiko 55mm 1.2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/taz98spin/5636402146/
Its half format (i.e. built for film with a format that almost exactly matches APS-C), has great Bokeh, is easy to get on the bay, and makes beautiful, warm, romantic portraits.
Zuiko 55/1.2 is a full frame lens. The 42/1.2 is a half frame from the original PEN FT line… along with the 40/1.4 and 60/1.5.
You are right, the 55 1.2 is a full frame. I was mistaken, since it is quite compact.
On my OMD-Em5 I use equivalent 100mm and 35mm f0.95: I find their DOF too thin when shot wide opened under normal light.
But I love them when shooting in the dark.
F0.75 looks too blurred to me, I would like to see how it performs in the dark at low ISOs.
I wonder if, in the future, cameras could be able to evaluate distances a given perspective, store the datas. Then, re-create the shallow depth of field in post production.
do you mean like a Lytro? 😀
I actually looked for something like that before i posted, and I haven’t found anything… Wow, Great link 🙂
Now it’s time manufacturers to put such applications in cameras.
haha, you mean things like this to come along?
http://www.43rumors.com/will-olympus-go-lytro/
i think panasonic had a adapter rumor inbetween the lens and camera going on too, but i can’t find that link
Wow! One of those on ebay has also a tiny dead bug inside!..
Fried by intense light concentration.
Why wont the Zeiss f/0.7 mount on the NEX?
I wonder the same. The “Kubrick Zeiss” has a Mitchell BNCR mount. And there are several BNCR to EF adapters available. Pair that with a standard EF to E-mount adapter and you should be good to go.
I just got a TV-Heligon, 42mm F/0.75， I wonder which one (of course, compared with the Delft, not the Zeiss) has better performance?
Still no NEX-5T and NEX-7N leaks?
I’ve given up on that. We’ve got the name NEX-5T and the release date tomorrow or Wednesday. I don’t mind waiting anymore…
Yeah, Sony itself probably will tell us about the 5T soon enough. Still, we don’t even have a clue about when the NEX-7 successor will hit the market. Could even not be in this year, I’m afraid.
The “Oude Delft” is a good demonstration of speed vs performance. Yes, its f0.75 (omg!) but the pictures look like taken through a dirty window. I´d rather take better definition of any “slower” 50/1.2 and bump up the ISO.
You’d want to look to the old Noctilux for an example like that.
This looks to me very much like an X-ray lens, in which of course correction is based on X-ray imaging. It’s no surprise its performance on focusing the visible spectrum is not so desirable.
Yes, it is an xray lens.
Nothing to do with X-rays – But facinating lens nevertheless See Wikipedia and others
“The lens was designed and made specifically for the NASA Apollo lunar program to capture the far side of the moon in 1966”
“In total there were only 10 lenses made. One was kept by Carl Zeiss, six were sold to NASA, and three were sold to Stanley Kubrick”
Article and reference links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_Planar_50mm_f/0.7
This is NOT an f/0.75 when used on a NEX. Basically, it doesn’t cover the sensor unless used in the macro range, in which case it isn’t anywhere near T0.75 (it will behave more like f/2 and can’t focus to infinity). I have a 40mm f/0.75 and various others I’ve played with. Here’s the Instructable I wrote about how to use them: http://www.instructables.com/id/Using-Ultra-Fast-Lenses-on-DSLR-Cameras/
On the other hand, my Canon FL 55mm f/1.2 on a Lens Turbo (becoming a 40mm f/0.9) is darn good and costs less than $400 total….