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The Funleader x Brightin Star XSLIM-M 28mm F2.8 is a teeny tiny pancake for Leica M

Jul 5, 2023 by John Aldred Add Comment
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There aren’t many lenses out there that stick out less than a centimetre from the front of your camera, but the new Funleader x Brightin Star XSLIM-M 28mm f/2.8 (buy here) is one of them. To be fair, it’s barely a hair under 1cm, at 0.99cm, but it’s still pretty tiny.

It’s designed for Leica M rangefinders, sporting the Leica M mount, and offers a respectably wide 28mm focal length with an equally respectable f/2.8 aperture. Sure, it’s not super fast, but for a pancake lens, this small, f/2.8 is pretty quick.

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This 50mm f/0.95 face-off puts Laowa vs Mitakon vs TTArtisan vs Brightin Star lenses against each other

Mar 18, 2022 by John Aldred Add Comment
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There seem to be a lot of very fast lens options these days, even for full-frame cameras. Very few are them are coming from the long-established big-name companies like the camera manufacturers themselves or even Sigma and Tamron, but there are a lot of manual focus ones coming from some of the newer Chinese lens manufacturers.

In this video, Christopher Frost puts four full-frame 50mm f/0.95 lenses to the test to see how they stack up against each other, including the Mitakon, TTArtisan, Brightin Star and the recently announced Laowa Argus lens. The Laowa is a hair wider than the other three at 45mm rather than 50, but it’s close enough.

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