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There are a number of small lens makers who have been developing lenses particularly for modern mirrorless cameras. Most of these (but not all) are budget, manual focus alternatives.
Fisheye lenses are out on the extremes of photography. Whereas often I’m evaluating lenses and critiquing if they have distortion, fisheye lenses are really all about embracing the distortion and using it in creative ways. It’s not for beginners, and certainly can be used poorly, but there are also a lot [Read more...]
I’ve been interacting with Pergear for a couple of years now as a distributor of other brands, then a retailer of those brands, but now they have gotten their feet wet with actually producing a Pergear branded lens…and at a serious bargain! The Pergear 25mm F1.8 sells for only $68 USD, making it perhaps the [&h [Read more...]
With any new camera system there is a vulnerable period where the quantity and quality of lenses available for the system can either make or break its momentum. Canon has been weathering that storm on its “R” full frame mirrorless platform, where of the ten RF mount lenses from Canon at this point, only two [&h [Read more...]
With any new camera system there is a vulnerable period where the quantity and quality of lenses available for the system can either make or break its momentum. Canon has been weathering that storm on its “R” full frame mirrorless platform, where of the ten RF mount lenses from Canon at this point, only two [&h [Read more...]
Brightin Star is the somewhat oddly named brand (I suspect this is a Chinese idiom that gets lost in translation) that has started to produce a variety of budget manual focus lenses for a number of the popular mirrorless camera systems, including Sony, Fuji, Canon M, and m43. The Brightin Star 12mm F2 caught my […] [Read more...]
The Viltrox AF 85mm F1.8 STM is the first full frame autofocus lens from Viltrox designed for Sony FE…and I’m the first reviewer in the West to get my hands on one! The 85STM sports a beautiful build quality (very premium) along with a STM autofocus system. I’ll be exploring how Viltrox has does in [Read more...]
The first Kamlan lens I ever tested was the predecessor of this lens. I reviewed it in 2017, and came away with the impression that while there were things I really liked (nice build and beautiful bokeh), the lens was more of a novelty at wide apertures due to being soft and low contrast. The […] [Read more...]
The Viltrox AF 85mm F1.8 STM is the first full frame autofocus lens from Viltrox designed for Sony FE…and I’m the first reviewer in the West to get my hands on one! The lens sports a beautiful build quality (very premium) along with a STM autofocus system. I’ll be exploring how Viltrox has does in [ [Read more...]
