The Kipon IBELUX 40mm f/0.85 MKIII is coming. Kipon says:
wide-open shooting with the new IBELUX 40/0.85 MarkIII on Fujifilm X. Much better chromatic aberration, better resolution and better control under strong light
Just a fun fact: Kipon once said here, that their Ibelux 40mmF0.85 performs better on Fuji than on Sony cameras? Why? They don’t know. It’s the same lens. Who knows if X-Trans helps a bit to get better results ;).
You can check out Kai’s hands on video here, but I’d like to highlight on curious sentence the Kipon manager said, while Kai was trying to figure out if he’d like to test the Sony APS-C or the Fujifilm APS-C version of the lens. Kipon says:
“The performance of Ibelux 40mm F0.85 is better on Fujifilm cameras than on Sony, we don’t know why.”
Kai’s impressions when shot at F0.85 on the Fujifilm X-T3:
lot’s of color fringing
soft
nice smooth bokeh
You can find another Kipon IBELUX 40mm F0.85 review at alikgriffin here (with lots of sample images). His Pros and Cons:
Pros: Extremely shallow DOF, very creamy puffy bokeh, nice corner and edge performance when stopped down, sharp in the center, great bokeh at all apertures.
Cons: CA wide open, tendency for highlights to bloom wide open, vignetting at f0.85-f1, big, heavy.
