Canon 50mm f/0.90

[Orio]

I saw one last week, at a local shop, mounted on a Canon camera.
I only have to sey one thing: IMPRESSIVE
I could not imagine that lens was SO large.

[supahmario]

what was the price?

[Orio]

[kds315*]

[egidio]

probably it was this one...0.95 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_F4d7OWiFyMg/R-5ZO-bUOYI/AAAAAAAAAz0/MOJSf_FtR8c/s320/leica_canon_095.jpg (photo taken from google images)

Thats so fast as it would be made for x-ray machines:)

[darosk]

Wow, I would like to try one.

[Orio]

I am not 100% about the ninety thing
The lens that I saw, had silver barrel, not black. And it was attached to a Canon camera, not a Leica.

[kds315*]

This is how is usually looks like (borrowed from our member taunusreiter):


A pure chrome version I haven't seen yet. Many of these are adapted to Leica as a (much cheaper) Noctilux replacement and for the effect I guess.
The lens is not really that sharp, the f1.2 and f1.4 of that series are reportedly much better.

If it needs to be even faster (and bigger), how about that one then...

(but that's a Xray lens again...)

Really useful however is that one, with "perfect bokeh" iris:

[Orio]

Klaus I think the first you show is what I saw.

[kds315*]

It is not uncommon Orio and still fetches around $1000 these days, mostly for conversion (or converted) to Leica.

[Orio]

Anyway for as impressive as it was, it was nothing compared to a HUGE Nikon fisheye lens I saw at a used camera fair a couple of years ago. The diameter was, like, half a meter, maybe more!

[darosk]

Orio I think you are talking about nikkor 6mm?

this one?


This thing is scary.

[cooltouch]

Some years ago, I owned a Canon 50mm f/0.95. I tried it out with a Canon P rangefinder I also owned at the time. All I can say about the lens's performance, especially wide open, was that it would not have been acceptable except for the fact that exposures were taking place at improbably low light values. Otherwise, it was not of much use. Even stopped down, the exposures were nothing better than accetable.

Still, it is a very cool optic, from a collectible standpoint. And any serious Canon rf collector -- of which there seem to be an increasingly greater number -- will want one in his collection.

[kds315*]

[Orio]

Yes, that's it
Impressive beast. I wonder why the glass size had to be SO large.

[DSG]

[scsambrook]

[DSG]

[estudleon]

I want to have this lens and the canon 7 cam. One of my dreams.

If don't remember wrong, the lens had a special bokeh that was the characteristic of it. Specially wide open.

And the canon 7 in the pic, wow !!!

Noctilux (the warmer leica lens) and the canon 0,95 will stay with me some day, I love the great gun lenses.

Rino.-

[cheve]

[Seele]

[KhanX]

Klaus, Your gear look good. I'll try the one from my friend before I buy. I've any questions about comparing with Leica Noc 50/0.95.

[Abbazz]

The Canon 50/0.95 has a very bad reputation, usually spread by people who have never used one or by disappointed users who have tried in vain to get a properly focused picture wide open on their Leica. In fact, when I manage to nail the focus, it's not a bad lens at all, even wide open, when you consider its aperture of F/0.95, meaning that the diameter of the lens is actually larger than its focal length! Of course the bokeh gets a bit wild on close focus, but the lens is perfectly usable wide open to shoot a performance in low light on a Micro 4/3rds camera.

Here is an old sample taken on film with the Bessa R3M rangefinder:


F/0.95

And a few pictures taken recently with the Olympus E-P1 Micro 4/3rds digital camera:


F/5.6


F2.0


F/0.95


F/0.95

Cheers!

Abbazz

[LucisPictor]

Abbazz, it's great to have you here!

[Abbazz]