Terrific fast Ibelux 40mm f/0.85 coming in E, MFT, M, EOS-M and X mount!
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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Justsayin
4 months ago |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.
shinnn
4 months ago |oh my god, this is sick XD just look at this size! it totally beats the purpose of mirrorless cameras…portability.
ob1
4 months ago |Size is an (not the only) advantage of mirrorless camera’s, that does not mean every lens must be tiny, it means that you can have lens and body combinations that are small when you need it. If you need a small system, then don’t buy this lens, problem solved.
shinnnn
4 months ago |not sure about your ‘tiny when you need it’ part since many of the serious shooters use a mirrorless as a second system. why else do you think many would buy those mirrorless systems anyway? that’s why many complained about the nex system when it was first introduced, the 18-55 was not small, the 24/f1.8 isn’t small, the 50/f1.8 isn’t small either and let’s not even mention the 18-200. the only lens that was small was the 16/f2.8 lens. just recently sony released the 35 and the new 16-50 which fits the purpose of those cameras. don’t tell me you would use such a big lens for a 40mm focal lenght, it’s a nice lens no doubt about that and as a leica shooter i would love to use that speed since it that lens is CHEAP compared to those leica equivelent lenses.
plump
4 months ago |Ok so by your logic, if I want to use this lens, I have to go an buy a large camera to attach it to? For what reason?
Your argument is flawed.
shinnn
4 months ago |i didn’t say you have to buy a big camera to use this lens on it. i said that it’s a disadvantage to mirrorless systems, reason: weight distribution. This combination will be totally off balance (even if the body is made out of polyvinly-material but it seems like on the picture that it is not so all the more heavier). not sure if you have ever tried to mount a 70-200/f2.8 lens on a mirrorless before but from experience i can tell you (and i did it just for fun with a nikkor 70-200/f2.8) it will hurt your hands and arm after a while since it’s hard to remain the balance of the body AND to keep the cam steady and leveled. that’s why on the semi-pro to pro dslr market those body tend to have a good grip for your right hand.
Ulli
4 months ago |Many serious shooters use mirrorless as their main system too you know.
shinnn
4 months ago |i know, i use it seriously too XD
Arnold
4 months ago |I need this one to compensate for my small penis !
El Aura
4 months ago |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.
Me
4 months ago |Will I see a difference compared to my 50mm f/0.92?
pebbles
4 months ago |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*
Andy
4 months ago |If only it was bigger…
MarcoSartoriPhoto
4 months ago |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?
jake
4 months ago |cool but a bit too big for the tiny NEX5/6 line of cameras.
maybe it is good on the GH3 or Fuji XP1.
Miroslav
4 months ago |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.
Robert Eberan von Eberhorst
4 months ago |f/0.85 is only one third stop faster than f/0.95
true homer
4 months ago |only on this site can somebody say “is only a third of a stop faster than f/0.95″ with a straight face.
real true homer
4 months ago |U iz no homer, I iz
Homer J
4 months ago |D’oh!
Kelly S
2 months ago |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.