Leica is about to announce a 50mm f/0.95 prime for their M mount bodies and it will set you back a whopping $11,000 USD. This may be the fastest commercially available lens ever made. Read about it here.

Now I know $11k isn’t all that outrageous for a lens, after all serious nature/sports shooters routinely carry around 600mm f/4 glass that retails in the $8-$10k range.  But we’re not talking about some exotic, 11lb, super-tele f/4 here, this is 50mm of pocket friendly f/0.95 goodness.  That’s a full stop faster than your pokey 50mm f/1.4, this is handheld candlelit photos at base ISO territory.  Imagine the razor thin depth of field with this lens wide open… I’m imagining eyelashes in focus/pupils are soft and blurry.

…eyeing the piggy-bank and thinking ‘where did I put that hammer?’…

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