I believe it was an F0.95 ... plus there was the famous lens Kubrik had made for the motion picture Barry Lyndon (three of them, actually), which was an f0.7. And lets not forget the Kowa 65mm f/0.75 lens and the Canon's EF 50mm f/1.0L USM, which, I believe, is still the fastest readily available 35mm-SLR camera lens. Then there's the remarkable Zeiss 210mm N-Mirotar, a 210mm mirror lens with a three-stage electronic image intensifier and an effective lens speed of f/0.03, and the relatively slow Mt. Prospect 90mm f/1.0, or the quite useful Rodenstock TV-Heligon 50 mm f/0.75 lens, a sample of which I've seen converted to Nikon mount. If you've got a need for speed, the glass is out there ;-))
Shel > [Original Message] > From: P. J. Alling > Canon once made a f0.9. > > Glen wrote: > > Killing the 50mm f1.4 makes me a little nervous. > > If they replace it with another f1.4 of better quality, > > that would be fine. If they come out with a > > high quality f1.0 replacement, that would be absolutely > > fantastic. (To my knowledge, only Leica has made an > > f1.0 so far, and it was for their rangefinder.)
