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Gear Talk => Lens Talk => Topic started by: stenrasmussen on November 16, 2016, 11:15:14

Title: New irix 45mm
Post by: stenrasmussen on November 16, 2016, 11:15:14
Coming soon...according to irix's own web pages (where I took the picture from).
Interesting that Tamron and now irix are making more true (36x24) normal lenses.
Title: Re: New irix 45mm
Post by: Erik Lund on November 16, 2016, 11:38:10
Looks big :)
Title: Re: New irix 45mm
Post by: Akira on November 16, 2016, 12:05:47
Hmm...I wonder if no one except for Cosina/Voigtländer is interested in designing a 40-45mm/f2.0-2.8 pancake using today's technology?
Title: Re: New irix 45mm
Post by: elsa hoffmann on November 16, 2016, 15:32:34
Does look big... does size count??
Title: Re: New irix 45mm
Post by: stenrasmussen on November 16, 2016, 15:34:16
Quote from: elsa hoffmann on November 16, 2016, 15:32:34
Does look big... does size count??

Depends on what the use is...
Title: Re: New irix 45mm
Post by: Olivier on November 16, 2016, 17:18:16
Neutrino coating, marketing at its best!
Title: Re: New irix 45mm
Post by: elsa hoffmann on November 16, 2016, 18:05:24
Since I got the 16mm fisheye from Bob - All I want is small lenses. So weird since it never bothered me at all
Title: Re: New irix 45mm
Post by: Tristin on November 17, 2016, 06:13:20
Strange.  I wonder if it will have something up it's sleeves to differentiate it from the wide variety of excellent fast ~50s.
Title: Re: New irix 45mm
Post by: arthurking83 on November 17, 2016, 07:49:17
Quote from: Olivier on November 16, 2016, 17:18:16
Neutrino coating, marketing at its best!

Wouldn't they just pass through the lens(and everything else in the universe) :D

I remember many years ago reading that a neutrino was the closest thing something can get to nothing, without actually being nothing.

So, in effect this coating is pretty much nothing! :p
Title: Re: New irix 45mm
Post by: jhinkey on November 17, 2016, 20:38:56
Quote from: Akira on November 16, 2016, 12:05:47
Hmm...I wonder if no one except for Cosina/Voigtländer is interested in designing a 40-45mm/f2.0-2.8 pancake using today's technology?

I'd be all over that if it had great IQ wide open and wasn't too long.  Favorite lens on my D800 is the 45/2.8 which is great in the central 2/3rds of the image wide open and just fine at f/5.6.  Wish it was just fine at f/2.8 :)
Title: Re: New irix 45mm
Post by: Akira on November 17, 2016, 23:01:09
Quote from: jhinkey on November 17, 2016, 20:38:56
I'd be all over that if it had great IQ wide open and wasn't too long.  Favorite lens on my D800 is the 45/2.8 which is great in the central 2/3rds of the image wide open and just fine at f/5.6.  Wish it was just fine at f/2.8 :)

Canon EF 40/2.8 can be such one, so long as you get a good sample.  I briefly used it with 5D MkIII, but my sample smeared on the 15-20% in the right-hand side when focused at distance.