35mm F0.95

[Rawfa]

I have JUST got the NEX 35mm F0.95. As I went from the post office straight to work, so I cannot say much but I will be posting some samples and some more elaborate comments later on. I will take a 10 day vacation through Brazil´s northwest beaches and I plan to take this lens along the 16mm pancake (which is the only AF lens I have and the one I use underwater).
My first impression is that this is one heavy lens...

 

[etrigan63]

Rafa,

What is the brand of the lens?

 

[Rawfa]

It´s an e-mount Mitakon. These are supposed to be the guys who manufacture some of the high end SLR Magic lenses.
First Mitakon 35mm f/0.95 image samples (not soooo bad!) | sonyalpharumors

 

[mazor]

please tell rawfa I know there is 0.95 len from VC for MFT, but not for 1.5x crop


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Ahh thx looking it up now

 

[Rawfa]

Don´t worry. There will be plenty of photos to go around

 

[mazor]

wonder what the sharpness will be like at 0.95, and will it be a bit dreamy creamy like the SLR magic 50mm 0.95.

 

[Rawfa]

Some very very very quick tests. All shot at iso 100, f0.95, 1/50 (some 1/20). Next friday I have a birthday at a bar which should allow me to test a lot of low light shots.

 

[mazor]

thx for posting, excellent tempter type shots. the truth in the telling is when you use it in extreme light situations, and shiny chrome subjects.

 

[f/otographer]

Wow. I really like these. Are the close up shots on the eyes and teeth crops or do they show the actual minimum focus distance of the lens?

Again, nicely done. I have been interested in this lens and waiting to see some real life examples from it. Thanks for posting these. Cant wait to see more.

 

[Rawfa]

Thanks, these are close ups...not crops. I haven´t had any time to test the closest focusing distance but it seems to be really close.
I´ll have more time to do some testing this weekend.

 

[f/otographer]

Thanks, these are close ups...not crops. I haven´t had any time to test the closest focusing distance but it seems to be really close.
I´ll have more time to do some testing this weekend.

That is very good to hear. This lens just went up in my estimation. I love lenses that close focus as it suits my style of photography. Time to save my pennies and look at getting one of these.

Cant wait for further exampels.

 

[Rawfa]

Thanks for the comments, fellas. Like I said these are very very quick tests. I just put the camera on a tripod and plugged it into my high def TV so I could quickly frame my self, then I shot with a remote. It´s hard to comment on quality so far but my first impression is very good. A was very afraid this lens would have a lot of glow/ghosting at f0.95, but even though you can see a little bit of it it´s hardly noticeable...FOR me it´s totally usable at f0.95. Another thing I have to comment is that this lens is very heavy and big. It´s not your portable everyday combo.
Also, these photos were staged. I´m yet to test this lens on real live situations. I think this birthday I have this weekend and these 10 days travel I´m going to take will be the perfect opportunity to test this babe.

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Rafa, the lens (build) looks good and your examples look good but shows to little to tell.
Very curious. I suppose it is about the same size as the VC 35/1.2.
Did you buy the silver or black version?

Michiel

 

[Vivek]

This lens seems fine for the price. I am holding out for another optics that would hopefully appear soon and change the fast lens scenario dramatically.

 

[MikalWGrass]

Vivek, you're going to make us suffer and wait?

 

[Vivek]

With apologies to Rafa for the OT posts, Mikal, can't say more at the moment. I have been waiting for > year now it is not going to be that a long a wait. (Check your bank lending policies and such. These are tough times and it takes longer to go from a prototype to production.)

 

[mazor]

niced shots rawfa, wil be interesting to see gthe bdays shots, esp looking out for the absense of glow effect at 0.95

 

[Rawfa]

I hope to have some cool stuff to post tomorrow morning...

 

[mazor]

great stuf rawfa, will be interesting to see how this lens performs, ie purple fringing, glow etc.

 

[Rawfa]

Some more shots I took a birthday. Except for the flash ones they are all from iso 800 to iso 1600 at f0.95. I can tell you it´s haaard to shoot moving objects this wide open (I have no trouble with my Pentax 50mm f1.4). All jpegs.

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