Mid optics SPEEDMASTER 50 mm F 0.95 III (Sony E / Canon RF / Nikon Z)
- Scheduled to be released in April 2019
- Manufacturer's preferred price ¥ 98,000 (excluding tax)
SPEEDMASTER 50 mm F 0.95 III is an ultra large diameter standard lens designed for mirrorless cameras with full-frame sensors.
While achieving the phenomenal brightness of an aperture opening F value of 0.95, it is also designed for portability, and balance on full-frame mirrorless cameras.
Utilizing the features of the ultra-large aperture lens, it is possible to take handheld photographs in places where there is little light intensity or to take advantage of beautifully soft background blur.
Improvements from SPEEDMASTER 50 mm F 0.95 M 67 (version 2)
- Improved image quality by updating the optical design.
- It is compatible with the Nikon Z mount and Canon RF mount.
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It looked pretty good in the review - decent bokeh, but its manual focus.
Edit:
If there is no focus peaking, then the trick I use when shooting RAW video is to set the picture style to landscape and adjust the contrast all the way to 11.
1. Zhong Yi Speedmaster 50mm f/0.95 III, a slight revision of the former version, now available in Canon RF and Nikon Z mounts in addition to Sony E mount.
2. Zhong Yi Speedmaster 50mm f/0.95 C, a completely different lens in Canon EF mount.
while I disliked the camera, I loved this lens.
Not so much for portrait, but for scenery and people shots, removing background on busy streets, spectacular low iso night shots, etc.
Was fun. Now this means I have to buy an RP. grrrr. (If it has good focus peaking. Not willing to spend the extra for the R, given that I already have my 5D4)
For portrait, even f/1.2 is already a tad too fast for a 50mm lens, if you don't want to have the nose and the ears already lost in blur (sometimes I like to play with that). That said, the artist Chuck Close copied exactly this blur-in-the-face effect in some his photorealistic portrait paintings (e.g. "Mark", 1978-79). I am sure he had some fun doing that.