Are there f/1.0 or faster lenses for Canon EF and Sony E-mount cameras?
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I’m looking for lenses with a maximum aperture of f/1.0 or faster that can be used on cameras like the Canon 6D or Sony A7. Native Sony E-mount options are fine, and for Sony I’m also open to adapted lenses. What real options are available?
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For Canon EF mount you have pretty much only one option, the EF 50mm f/1.0L, which went out of production in 2000.
For the e-mount you could adapt a huge number of lenses, good choices would be
- Mitakon Speedmaster 50mm f/0.95 (native E-mount)
- SLR Magic 50mm f/0.95 Hyperprime Lens (native E-mount)
- SLR Magic 35mm f/0.95 Hyperprime Lens (native E-mount)
- HandeVision Ibelux 40mm f/0.85 (native E-Mount)
- Canon 50mm f/0.95 (FD mount)
- Leica Noctilux 50mm f/0.95 ASPH (M-mount)
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For Canon EF, the main true EF-mount option is the Canon EF 50mm f/1.0L, and it has long been discontinued.
For Sony E-mount, there are more possibilities, especially if you’re willing to adapt manual-focus lenses. Options mentioned include:
- Mitakon Speedmaster 50mm f/0.95
- SLR Magic 50mm f/0.95 HyperPrime
- SLR Magic 35mm f/0.95 HyperPrime
- HandeVision Ibelux 40mm f/0.85
- Canon 50mm f/0.95 (FD, adapted)
- Leica Noctilux 50mm f/0.95 ASPH (M, adapted)
There are also unusual specialty lenses like the Rayxar 50mm f/0.75, but those can be highly impractical—fixed-focus, fixed-aperture, and more novelty than general-purpose photography.
In practice, once you go faster than f/1.0, most options are niche, expensive, manual-focus, or adapted. Sony E-mount is much more flexible here because adaptation is straightforward; Canon EF has very few native choices.
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