Category Archives: 3rd Party Lens

ePhotozine Vintage Review: Minolta AF 28mm F/2

Now that Sony has a pretty complete lineup of lenses adapting lenses to E-mount seems to have slowed a little, but it is good to know that there are 30+ years-old lenses on the market that can fully resolve even the highest of high-resolution cameras today. For fans of characters that do not like to […]

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Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 Coming to Sony E-mount

Viltrox is teasing an f/1.2 APSC lens coming to E-mount that is video-centric on Weibo, but this lens has already been soft-announced for X-mount over at Fujiaddict’s coverage of an Asian broadcasting event. The lens will be the Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 Pro, and I am curious to see if they have done some video-centric tuning for […]

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Laowa 65mm T2.9 2X Macro APO Cine and Laowa 100mm T2.9 2X Ultra Macro APO Cine Announced

Laowa 65mm T2.9 2X Macro APO Cine: Venus Optics Laowa 100mm T2.9 2X Ultra Macro APO Cine: Venus Optics Venus Optics, the camera lens manufacturer that has been endeavouring to invent unique lenses, is now releasing 2 new cine macro lenses: 1) Laowa 65mm T2.9 2X Macro APO Cine (Super 35) – Fujifilm X / […]

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New Pergear 14mm f/2.8 and 35mm f/1.4 Coming Soon

Pergear 14mm f/2.8 full-frame manual focus lens: Lens focal length 14mm Aperture F2.8 Aperture fixed Focus Manual Farthest focus ∞ Closest focus 43cm Shooting angle 114 o Optical structure 13 elements in 9 groups, two of which are aspherical Lens coating MC multilayer Anti-shake function without anti-shake Lens Type Pure Manual Frame: full frame color: […]

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OL: Sony 16-35mm f/4.0 PZ FE Review

Sony 16-35mm f/4.0 PZ FE: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama Optical limits posted its full Sony 16-35mm f/4.0 PZ FE, which you can read here or check out excerpts from below: In terms of optical performance, it is more consistent than most ultra-wide zoom lenses that we have tested so far. Usually, these lenses tend to be decent at […]

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SAB: Meike 85mm f/1.8 MF Review

Meike 85mm f/1.8 MF: B&H Photo / Amazon Meike 85mm f/1.8 AF: B&H Photo / Amazon Sony Alpha Blog posted its full Meike 85mm f/1.8 MF review, which should also apply to the AF lens, which doesn’t cost that much more. You can read the full review here or check out the excerpt below: The […]

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