Zeiss Batis 40mm F2 CF Review

Check me out on: My Patreon | Sign Up for My Newsletter | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Flickr | 500px | Google+ | The Zeiss Batis series has been a serious treat for Sony FE shooters. The idea of…
Check me out on: My Patreon | Sign Up for My Newsletter | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Flickr | 500px | Google+ | The Zeiss Batis series has been a serious treat for Sony FE shooters. The idea of…
Check me out on: My Patreon | Sign Up for My Newsletter | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Flickr | 500px | Google+ | Fuji has taken a very different approach to mirrorless than just about everyone else. While others…
Sigma has produced perhaps more lenses than anyone over the past five years, but few of them are as important as the Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 OS | Sport. Not only does this complete Sigma’s “trinity” of fast aperture zooms (14-24mm…
If you were to go back even five years ago, it was easy to know the players in the photography industry. As a Canon shooter at the time, the lenses essentially universally came from Canon, Sigma, Tamron, Zeiss, and relative…
The Zeiss Batis Distagon 40mm F2 CF is the newest and perhaps most unique member of the Batis family of lenses for Sony FE. It joins the 18mm, 25mm, 85mm, and 135mm lenses as the “normal” focal length but also…
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My next Fuji project is the brand-new Fujinon XF 8-16mm F2.8 R lens – a super wide angle zoom with a large maximum aperture. This lens one-ups the F4 competitors that Sigma, Sony, and Canon offer with an F2.8 version…
Check me out on: My Patreon | Sign Up for My Newsletter | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Flickr | 500px | Google+ | The original idea behind mirrorless cameras was they would be smaller, lighter alternatives to DSLRs due…
The Venus Optics Laowa 10-18mm F4.5-5.6 Ultra-Wide Zoom is an extreme instrument, though it may look all small and innocent. This is a full frame zoom lens designed for Sony FE that covers an incredible 130 degree field of view,…
Check me out on: My Patreon: | Google+: | Facebook: | Twitter: | Flickr: | 500px: | Sign Up for My Newsletter : Long before the popular 150-600mm variants from Sigma and Tamron hit the shelves, Sigma already had an entry in the affordable super-telephoto class – the…
The original idea behind mirrorless cameras was they would be smaller, lighter alternatives to DSLRs due to the differences in technology while providing similar levels of optical performance. As I’ve noted in many subsequent reviews this idea is often lost,…
Check me out on: Patreon: | Google+: | Facebook: | Twitter: | Flickr: | 500px: | Sign Up for My Newsletter : Sony’s catalog of lenses for their full frame mirrorless E-mount has continued to grow, but there are still some missing pieces in the inventory. One of…
Check me out on: My Patreon: | Google+: | Facebook: | Twitter: | Flickr: | 500px: | Sign Up for My Newsletter : Samyang/Rokinon have long been known for making budget, manual everything lenses. I reviewed my first Rokinon lens in 2013,…
Sigma has pushed the boundaries yet again! The 150-600mm affordable super-telephoto lenses have proven extremely popular, but Sigma has pushed things even further by adding an additional crucial 90mm to the focal length, dramatically increasing the potential of what you…
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The Fujinon XF 200mm F2 OIS is Fuji’s most important lens in a long, long time. Not because of how many people it will impact; this is a $6000 lens, after all! It is important in the sense that the…
I’ve just started a brand new partnership with FUJIFilm where I will start to spend some time reviewing some of their products, and I’ve started with the newest and brightest – their X-T3 Flagship camera body and the monster XF…