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Cosina has announced a 50mm f/1.1 lens. ⇒

   19 May 2009, early afternoon

These are some shots from a test model. Hype.

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  1. That’s pretty crazy! Probably at least $1000+

    by Eric on May 20 2009, 10:22 am   #

  2. The Cosina 35mm f/1.2 is about $900, and the 50mm f/0.95 Leica Noctilux is something like $10,000, so yeah, it’ll probably be somewhere in between. I’m thinking it’ll be closer to the other Cosina lens in price. I think the MSRP is 130,000 yen.

    by ramanan on May 20 2009, 10:26 am   #

  3. Damn, and here I wasted a perfectly good $120 on the Canon 50mm f/1.4.

    by stashuk on May 20 2009, 5:54 pm   #

  4. Look up the price of the 50mm f/1.2L and this doesn’t seem that unreasonable anymore. That extra stop is expensive. (That said, if you got the 50mm f/1.4 USM for $120, that's a deal and a half.)

    by ramanan on May 21 2009, 7:53 am   #

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