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The guy could have chosen the Voigtlander 25mm f/0.95 for handheld shooting - on an E-M1 or GX-7 with in-body IS, he would have easily matched you here. But maybe he preferred to shoot at f/8.

Yes he could have, but didn't. He had a compact mirror less with a tripod. Which made it ironic. 

 

As to f8, that was not really helpful under the circumstances (standing far away from the subject, with just the subject lighted and nothing of interest in the foreground).