domcomm Loc: Denver, CO

I just saw on DPReview that Fujifilm has just come out with a 50mm f1.0 lens for its X-series cameras. The sample gallery shows some great examples of what it can do, and the shallow depth of field it provides. Check it out if you're a Fuji X photographer.

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

Not the world's first.

https://leica-review.com/leica-noctilux-m-50mm-f1-lens-review/

Haydon

The title is in inaccurate unfortunately "World's first 50mm f1.0 lens!". It may apply to Fuji but not other manufacturers.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Canon 50mm f/1.0L
Full-Frame EF L USM (1989-2000)

https://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses/50mm-f1.htm

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

The article said for digital mirrorless it is the first.

Festus Loc: North Dakota

It is the worlds first AUTOFOCUS!

fetzler Loc: North West PA

There was a Cannon 50mm f0.95 for Cannon Rangefinders introduced in 1961. So the one you describe is certainly not the first.

There is one for sale with the camera for sale on ebay right now for those with GAS.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-7-35mm-Rangefinder-Film-Camera-with-50mm-F0-95-Lens-Kit-/222724498482

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Leica make a f 0.95 lens.

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It’s a longer than normal not quite tele FL, which labels this as no big deal, IOW just another really big yawwwwwn. It’s just a miniature copy of a FF 75/1.4, a lens that would not generate any great buzz.

An APSC scale model of a FF 50/1.0 must have a max aperture of f/0.7. So nothing of substance in Fuji’s announcement.

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

No it isn't.

https://www.canonrumors.com/reviews/review-canon-ef-50mm-f1-0l/

Festus Loc: North Dakota

EXCUSE ME! How about first MIRRORLESS AUTOFOCUS?

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

This may be the FIRST high performance f/1.0 50mm??? I had 2 Noctolux lenses- the first one had a resolution, wide open, like the bottom of a shot glass. The later model was a bit sharper but nothing to write home about. The lens was so large that it interfered with the viewfinder on my old M-3 and M-4.

So... the near-zero depth of field was cool. But you don't need "bokeh" at riots and fires. 50mm for close up portraits on a full-frame body? Nah!

Remember, back in the film days if you wanted to shoot a "black cat in a coal mine at midnight" and not push the dickens out of the film and have grain the size of mothballs you needed f/1.0. Nowadays you can crank up the ISO and not have all that much noise.

Oh- I also had a Canon rangefinder camera with an f/9.5 lens. That wasn't gonna win any resolution awards either.

I used the f/9.5 to shoot wedding ceremonies in dark churches where flash was strictly forbidden for fear of damnation. The Leitz f/1.0 was from my newspaper days- great for riots and other commotions at night when you didn't want the bad folks to detect and kill the press photographer.

I never purchased the f/1.0 for my Canon gear- I wonder how the Fuji compares.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Canon had AF f1.0 lens 30 years ago.
NOT first AF lens by decades.

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Yeah, howboudat ?!?!?!? Reeeeeeeally, shouldn’t there be some assemblage of specific adjectives and narrow qualifiers that can be stacked like a house of cards to make something out of nothing ?

Maybe it’s the world’s first lens faster than f/1.05 to feature 9 concave faces with 17 convex faces, a plutonium powered 13 blade auto iris, a beneficial 3.5 degrees of barrel distortion, and a total absence of differential element movement in a lens intended to cover an image circle of less than 2/3 of the nominal FL of the lens. THAT would surely distinguish it from the common rabble !

SteveR Loc: Michigan

The photos I saw of a band in low light didn't impress me that much. Didn't seem that sharp.