Mitakon Speedmaster 50 mm f/0.95 review - Summary

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Mitakon Speedmaster 50 mm f/0.95

22 December 2017

Arkadiusz Olech

11. Summary

Pros:

solid, metal casing,
sensational image quality in the frame centre but only from f/2.8,
sligth longitudinal chromatic aberration,
negligible lateral chromatic aberration,
low astigmatism,
very nice out-of-focus areas.

Cons:

very weak image quality near the maximum relative aperture,
high level of spherical aberration,
huge coma,
weak flare resistance,
very high vignetting level on full frame,
unblackened parts inside the construction,
lack of contacts meaning also a limited use of focus peaking function.

The producers of the Mitakon can afford good optics specialists who know how to design complex optical instruments with a lot of untypical glass inside. Why the same producers don’t blacken the inside of the lens properly? Leaving shiny, raw aluminum parts in the tube from the side of the mount is a basic mistake; what’s more it’s a mistake which has happened more than once because the same reservations concerned the Mitakon Speedmaster 35 mm f/0.95.

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I suppose a company which does such a sloppy job with a lens costing around $800 won’t have much success. Apart from that a f/0.95 device with such a performance as presented in our test is rather a case of pointless muscle flexing. It would be better to focus on manufacturing a flawless f/1.2-f/1.4 instrument with a sensible image quality near the maximum relative aperture.