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Mitakon Speedmaster 135mm f/1.4 Lens Hands-On

October 22, 2015 By Eric Reagan

Mitakon Speedmaster 135mm f1.4 Lens-3

This is probably the only one of these I’ll ever get my hands on since they are only making 100 units of it but it sure is a unique lens. The Mitakon Speedmaster 135mm f/1.4 lens features a clickless aperture and a long-throw focus ring around the massive barrel. It uses 105mm filters.

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Weighing in a 6.6lbs, it is a bear to shoot handheld.

Mitakon Speedmaster 135mm f1.4 Lens-5

It has an incredible 11-blade aperture, which you can see stopped down a bit above.

Mitakon Speedmaster 135mm f1.4 Lens

The background separation when wide open is impressive. A focus confirm chip inside helps with manually focusing through the viewfinder.

Mitakon Speedmaster 135mm f1.4 Lens-4

It is available as a pre-order in Canon, Nikon and Sony FE moutns with a $500 deposit over on the Zyoptics website. The final price is $2,999 with expected availability in early 2016.

Filed Under: Lenses Tagged With: 135mm, lens, Mitakon, PhotoPlus 2015, Speedmaster

 

Comments

  1. Didaskalos says

    October 25, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    Really, this is too much press for a lens that only a few hundred people can afford and will be “privileged” to buy. Tell me about lenses that are reasonably available–like Sigma “Art” lenses…..

    • stageshooter says

      November 2, 2015 at 9:09 pm

      Ordered a week ago – for stage, portrait and location.
      It will mightily fill the gap between the 85/1.4 and the 200/2… (and my old 135/2 – crap@34mp)
      Wish they had released it in AF. Perhaps in another year or two – and I’ll eBay this one.
      THANK YOU, Shenyang Zhongyi Optics/Mitakon – and PhotographyBay for the heads up.

      • Eric Reagan says

        November 3, 2015 at 12:41 am

        Congrats on the order. At least it has focus confirmation in the viewfinder…

  2. Stuart Marcus says

    November 6, 2015 at 9:29 am

    I own the Mitakon Zhongyi 50mm /0.95 lens and use it on my Sony a7s – it has equally incredible background separation when wide open. At PhotoPlus in NY I was able to handle, focus and shoot the 135mmf/1.4 while it was tripod-mounted pn a Sony a7. The manual focus is butter-smooth even for a lens this size, and if one is used to focusing manually with focus peaking on the a7 series this is a snap.

    Steve Huff, please get hold of one of these and publish a review! You had a wonderful review of the Mitakon 50mm f0.95 on the a7S and I would love to see a comparison.

    I congratulate Mitakon on pushing the boundaries again…we need to see what glass can be capable of…and $2999 for a lens like this is a bargain. My $899 Mitakon may not be an $11,000 Noctilux, but it is affordable and takes incredible pictures with wonderful focus separation and bokeh wide open while being tack sharp at the focus point.

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