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super fast lens
« on: March 20, 2010, 05:42:09 AM »
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Re: super fast lens
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2010, 09:59:56 AM »
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Re: super fast lens
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2010, 01:37:35 PM »
my mouth is open as that lens!

f0.95, f0.75....what...looks great!

What camera is that?    M8?    isnt that a digital leica?
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Re: super fast lens
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2010, 02:29:42 PM »
Yep, M8 is a digital Leica... but who cares!
Just look at that gorgeous chunk of glass!

<Drooling over keyboard>

I don't know what kind of bokeh it gives but it still is something.

I know Mijonju put some surveillance camera lenses on a Digital Pen... But it still doesn't have the same charm.

I just calculated that a single element 50mm lens would just need to be 66mm diameter to have a f/stop of .75
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Re: super fast lens
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2010, 02:39:53 PM »
Francois,   your never ending pool of knowledge and mathmatical ability never ceases to amaze.

Could you apply your maths calculations to  the following :-

http://www.paddypower.com/racing/daily-racing/lingfield/3%3A00-LISTED-%283YO%29-7f-1798283.html

If you could let me know first 2, that would be great!

 
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Re: super fast lens
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2010, 03:46:23 PM »
Now I may be making things up here, but wasn't there a super fast (i.e. sub f1,00) Leica lens (or something Leica-related) that Stanley Kubrik used to film scenes in Barry Lyndon? Maybe this was it? There were lots of fireside scenes in the movie and Kubrik wanted to shoot with no additional light, so a really fast lens was needed.
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Re: super fast lens
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2010, 03:48:40 PM »
OK, my bad. It was actually a f0,7 Zeiss lens that he used. Here's a link to the story and some photos of it: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm
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Re: super fast lens
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2010, 05:31:48 PM »
Och dem lenses ar far tae fast f'r mee cos ad bee oota breath beefore a cood get it on ma camera, so ther    ::)   ::)   ;)   ;D
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Re: super fast lens
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2010, 05:33:16 PM »


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Re: super fast lens
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2010, 09:16:30 PM »
Quote from: ed.wenn on March 20, 2010, 03:46:23 PM
There were lots of fireside scenes in the movie and Kubrik wanted to shoot with no additional light, so a really fast lens was needed.
But sadly I don't think he used the camera you see in the moon scene of 2001
I still wonder if it was a camera that was produced (underwater) or something straight out of the imagination...

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Re: super fast lens
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2010, 01:33:40 AM »
Oh. My. Word.  I want to see photo results!
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