What is the widest T Stop possible We are having f stops of below even 0.7 NASA lenses What will be the T stop of such lenses with f stop below ONE?
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3Some of this is covered under What is special about lenses with f-number < 1? – mattdm Oct 23 '15 at 14:15
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1I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it does not try to solve an actual problem (see Don't Ask in Help). – TFuto Oct 28 '15 at 13:07
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Depends what you want? Photolithography lenses are sitting around f/0.6 consistently these days and they have almost perfect transmission, so t/0.65 or so. You can buy microscope objectives faster than f/0.4 these days as well, though they require immersion oil to function. These systems again have very fast t/#s. In the consumer marketplace? t/1.2 is about as good as you will do with some of the very fast cinema lenses, or a used Canon 50mm f/1.0L which should be around t/1.1-t/1.2 or so. Most of the f/0.95 lenses available are probably closer to f/1.05 and have strong losses, so t/1.1 would be about right.
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