Category Archives: 3rd Party Lens

Soon to be Announced Samyang AF 24mm f/2.8 FE Photos Leaked

By Louis Ferreira | Published: June 4, 2018

Nokishita leaked the first images of the soon to be announced Samyang AF 24mm f/2.8 FE today. The lens looks nice and compact from the sample images. Let’s hope it performs well. It could be available as soon as this week. via Nokishita

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Additional Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD Coverage

By Louis Ferreira | Published: June 1, 2018

The Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD is a very popular lens right now and even with the current AF issue a compelling purchase. Tamron easily could have sold this lens for $1,000 or even $1,200. I hope they work out the firmware issues for this lens soon because I want to pick up a copy myself […]

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Kamlan 28mm f/1.4 Coming to Kickstarter and Future Roadmap

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 31, 2018

Sainsonic is launching a new lens on Kickstarter the Kamlan 28mm f/1.4, but they also have a roadmap for some future lenses of interest in addition to their already broad range of Kamlan and Zonlai lenses that are available. Q2 2018 21mm f1.8 APS-C Q3 50mm f1.1 Mark2 Q4 32mm f1.3 APS-C 15mm f1.8 APS-C These […]

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Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD FE Autofocus Issue to be Fixed

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 31, 2018

In an announcement, the other day Tamron acknowledged the AF issue with the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD FE that we wrote about and they will be fixing it soon. Notice regarding use of 28-75 mm F / 2.8 Di III RXD (Model A 036) Thank you very much for your continued patronage of Tamron products. […]

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Sigma 105mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Pre-Orders Started

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 25, 2018

B&H Photo and Adorama have started pre-orders for the Sigma 105mm f/1.4 DG HSM ART lens.  

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Tokina FiRIN 20mm f/2 FE AF Review

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 24, 2018

The Tokina FiRIN 20mm f/2 FE AF won’t be shipping from B&H Photo and Adorama for a few more weeks, but sonyalpha.blog tested the new lens recently and found it excellent for photography, but lacking for automatic video work. Conclusion The Tokina Firin 20mm F2 AF is an excellent wide angle lens for photography Pro’s The sharpness of this lens is excellent on the […]

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