Image via Metalmickey

Guys! It may be not a good quality lens but this is to date the fastest lens for a digital mirrorless system! It is the IBELUX 40mm f/0.85 for Sony E-mount! It’s made by Kipon and the German IB/E OPTICS. It will be on market by July and price has yet to be defined. Stanley Kubrick would have loved this news. He shot Barry Lyndon on an even faster lens, the Zeiss f/0.7 (Source: Visual-memory). There is also a Leica Leitz for security cameras with f/0.75 ([shoplink 16747 ebay]on auction here on eBay[/shoplink]). But this lens is designed for the Sony NEX system and hopefully quality will be decent enough!

via Metalmickey

Image via Kumadigital.

At the CP+ show in Japan also Hasselblad is present with the “Lunar” Nex camera. They still didn’t unveil any detail about the final release date and final price (which we all have no doubt will be very high). The picture on top shows it with one of the future new Zeiss primes for NEX, the 12mm f/2.8 Distagon. As you know the 2.8/12, 1.8/32 and 2.8/50 macro will be released in Summer. Below two more pics of the Lunar (via Kumadigital.)

Confess, you can’t wait to spend $6,000 bucks on this!!!! :)

DC.watch (translation here) reports that the new Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.4 SSM lens for Sony A-mount will be released in Spring. It has a 72mm filter diameter, circular aperture diaphragm, 8 lens in 5 groups  and 45cm close focusing distance. Price is yet unknown. Editors’s note: Glad that we finally had a positive A-mount news :)

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P.S.: We have many Zeiss 50mm lenses for different mounts all priced between 500 and 800 dollars:
[shoplink 14186 ebay]Zeiss Normal 50mm f/1.4 ZE Planar T* for Canon (see auctions on eBay)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 14187 ebay]Zeiss Normal 50mm f/1.4 ZE Planar T* for Nikon (see auctions on eBay)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 14188 ebay]Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 50mm f/1.4 50/1.4 LTM (see auctions on eBay)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 14190 ebay]Zeiss Normal 50mm f/1.4 for Contax (see auctions on eBay)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 14189 ebay]Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 ZF 50mm F1.4 Nikon Ai-S (see auctions on eBay)[/shoplink].

Luca Rossinis 365 days project with the NEX-7 is about to end. You can read more about it here: http://www.lucarossini.it/category/366nex/. You also know him for that great job he did with Sony on the new NEX-6 in Alaska. There may be a new project soon and I can’t wait to see his new idea :)

And here are two more friends articles:
Robin Wong (Click here) made his first attempt to shoot in Studio with Alpha stuff. Alpha Studio Experience.
And Jordan Steele (Click here) explains in a must read article why the Full Frame equivalence doens’t matter.