The FASTEST Camera Lens of ALL TIME

[@pdp11]

Fun fact, there is a limit to how fast a lens can be, and for a lens in air it is about f/0.5.

[@pdp11]

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[@PokhrajRoy.]

I like when you show us throwbacks. Unlocking your lore, as it were.

[@Overexposed1]

Just sprinkling them in here and there!

[@classic.cameras]

I just used my Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS lens on a portrait shoot at f1.2. Woof what a tough lens to nail focus. This lens? Good Lord end me now. Everything is looking soft brother. Like Bokeh soft when I meant to be in focus. LOL

[@Overexposed1]

I use a voigtlander 1.2 - it’s brutal too!

[@classic.cameras]

@@Overexposed1 I have a Voight 35mm f1.4 Nokton. I buy and sell lenses (to support my hobby) and I always tell people who buy a f1.4 lens that "Yeah the f1.2 is awesome but the f1.4 lenses are so much better even wide open." and I live by it. F1.2 is amazing if you can nail it but meh... vintage f1.2 Vs modern f1.2 is no competition.

[@Xisbrezatsgzormd]

I think 1.8/1.6 is a bottom of a comfort use when you can receive an adequate result

[@mipmipmipmipmip-v5x]

Oh god don't let photography tiktok find this or they'll promote it for street and landscape photography

[@fourcornerseducation8828]

Interesting video but you do mix some time lines - when Zeiss “made” the q film speed was still increasing and Kodachrome was still only 25ASA 64 had yet to come out. Also many of us used 12 shot films cartridges so we could change without loss of lots of shots, but pros who the fast glass was aimed at were on paid shoots they used TriX or Kodachrome, basically. News photographers who were the drive for fast glass used only used tons of trix and not much else. But I am glas that someone has at least posted a video that recognise that inage quality depends in good glass nit Russian glass ;) - so a nice video.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Quote of the Day: “They make the background slicker than KY Jelly.”

[@Overexposed1]

I only deal in facts.

[@CaptRohmer]

I’m waiting for the f/0.32 version

[@RainIndex]

I'm waiting for the 12-600mm f/0.33.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Our eyes are the fastest lens honestly. Shutter speed, uncompared.

[@albinliungman1093]

Not really true. Wave your hand in front of your eye and you’ll see it very blurry very similarly to a slow shutter speed. In cinema, it’s common to use 180 degree shutter to mimic the motion blur of our eyes. In 24fps that’s only a ss of 1/48 which is quite slow.

[@ChrisThe1]

Not at all. Our eyes simply have high sensitivity, similar to high iso. The maximum aperture of the eye is around f2. In terms of shutter speed it doesn't work the same as a camera; contrast matters. A flash of light in a dark environment can be seen at a 500th of a second, but 24fps still gets interpreted as movement. Nonetheless, modern cameras are faster.