Sigma 14mm f/1.8 DG HSM ART Review
Sigma has done a fairly amazing job of reinventing themselves as a company in the past five years. It can be easy to forget that Sigma was known as a maker of mostly “cheap” lenses not all that long ago,…
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Dustin Abbott has been published in such publications as PhotoPlus, Photo News, Popular Science, American Photo, Pro Photographer, and Photography Week magazines as well as the Globe and Mail newspaper. He has been featured as a guest on many photography blogs and has had either articles or photos published in local magazines in multiple countries. He writes on a regular basis as a free-lance writer for PhotoNewsFlash, Alien Skin Software Blog, CanonRumors, B&H Explora eZine, and has also written for Photography Masterclass Magazine, Henry’s Photography Blog, PhotoNews Magazine, Digital Photography School, the Zeiss LenSPIRE blog, and Pro Photographer magazine. His lens reviews are respected around the world and can be seen on YouTube, too.
SainSonic Kamlan 50mm f/1.1 Review
For a long time the landscape of lenses has been concentrated on a few major lens makers. The first party players, making lenses for their own cameras, and a few established third parties like Zeiss, Sigma, and Tamron. In the…
Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD G2 Review
There are few lenses more important to a lens makers lineup than the 24-70mm f lens. A 24-70mm is valued because of the versatility of its zoom range, which covers a number of very important focal lengths, including 24mm, 28mm,…
Sigma DN Series Lenses (for Sony) Galleries
After I finished taking a look at the Zeiss Touit series for Sony APS-C mirrorless, I wanted to also take a look at Sigma’s offerings for Sony E-Mount.  These are the Sigma DN lenses, and include a 19mm, 30mm, and…
Zeiss Touit Series |12mm, 32mm, 50mm| Galleries
I’ve had the privilege of testing some autofocus Zeiss lenses designed for Sony’s E-Mount mirrorless cameras.  Zeiss has a couple of autofocus lines for mirrorless, including the full frame Batis line and then this APS-C mount Touit (pronounced “too-it”) series.…
Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM ART Review
There are few lenses more important to a manufacturer’s lineup than a 24-70mm f lens, making Sigma’s 24-70 ART one of their most significant releases this year. 24-70mm is an extremely versatile focal length, covering wide angle (24mm), standard/normal (35/50mm),…
Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Review
Last year Canon introduced a novel concept that might have been lost on a lot of Canon shooters due to it being implemented on a lens for Canon’s mirrorless EOS M system – the EF-M 28mm f Macro IS STM…
Zeiss Milvus Distagon T* 35mm f/1.4 Review
There are few focal lengths more important to a lens makers lineup than the 35mm focal length. It, along with the 50mm, tend to makeup the most commonly used focal lengths for those using prime lenses. When Zeiss launched the…
Tamron 18-400mm f/3.5-6.3 VC HLD Review
Tamron has long been the company that pushes the envelope in “all-in-one” zoom design and have held the top honors of having the largest zoom range in a DSLR lens for most of the past ten years. Years ago I…
Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6.3 Contemporary Review
First impressions matter. My first two impressions when opening the box and pulling out Sigma’s newest lens – the 100-400mm f DG OS HSM Contemporary – were 1) the lens was smaller than I anticipated (not a lot bigger than…
Voigtländer Ultron 40mm f/2 SL-II Review
 My Quiet Rebellion We live in a day of ever-larger lenses. High resolution, pixel dense camera bodies like the Nikon D800, then the Sony A7R II, and then the even more pixel dense Canon EOS 5Ds/R have a tendency…
Sigma 135mm f/1.8 HSM ART Review
 Sigma has established a very clear objective with their ART series primes: deliver large aperture prime lenses with class-leading (or near to it) resolution. On multiple occasions they have pushed the envelope of what was possible in maximum aperture…
Rokinon (Samyang) SP 14mm f/2.4 Review
The twin brands of Samyang and Rokinon have long been known for manufacturing inexpensive manual focus lenses that have often had excellent optical performance.  The very first Rokinon lens I used/reviewed was the Rokinon 14mm f wide angle lens.  At the…
Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 Apo Sonnar T* Review
 So I finally have in my hands an autofocusing Zeiss with image stabilization to boot. Have I died and gone to heaven? Not quite. It is then that I wake up and realize that the Batis 135 isn’t actually for…
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 VC HLD Review
 APS-C shooters can be forgiven for feeling like they sometimes get left out in the cold when it comes to quality development for their platform. Canon, for example, has an interesting dichotomy. Many of their lens releases for full…
Tamron 150-600mm G2 Second Look | APS-C, TCs, and More
 I’ve already done a full review of the new Tamron SP 150-600mm f VC USD G2 lens in the late fall of 2016, but at that time the lens was just coming to market and my review time was…
Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 VC G2 (A025) Review
 There are few lenses more indispensable to photographers as a 70-200mm f lens. Though large, heavy, and expensive, these lenses can be found in the bags of many, many photographers, both professional and amateur. They are just so versatile!…
Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4 APO Distagon T* Review
 Ludicrous Mode American automaker Tesla has become one of the darlings of the auto industry with their high performance electric vehicles. One of the ironic aspects of Tesla’s Model S sedan is the ability to unlock “Ludicrous Mode”. Ludicrous…