Professor Newman on… Ultra-fast lenses
The central point function has reduced intensity at the periphery
The recent announcement of an f/0.95 lens available in Nikon F-mount (the new Meyer-Optik ‘Nocturnus') seems to have confounded much informed opinion that such a thing was impossible. I suspect that the information backing this opinion was mostly conjecture, since by my calculations the F-mount is just large enough to contain the exit pupil of an f/0.95 lens.
