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Lens roadmaps are a great way for photographers, filmmakers and other camera users. It helps them find out what’s coming for their particular system. When lenses are added, it may be a couple of years before they’re real, but they’re coming.
Mark Cruz, a Senior Marketing Manager at Nikon USA, has said that the company won’t be publishing any more, though. The statement comes as part of an Adorama Q&A session for the recently released Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 Z Plena lens (buy here).
After a wildly successful Indiegogo campaign for 65mm T2.4 and an 80mm T2.4 anamorphic lenses, Venus Optics has added a stretch goal and is announcing another lens in this series. Laowa 20mm T2.2 1.5X Nanomorph lens is coming, and just like the other two, it’s lightweight and tiny, perfect for packing light and all kinds of run & gun shooting situations.
Sigma has just announced not one but two brand-new lenses. Both zoom lenses have you almost completely covered for focal length at both the wide-angle end and the telephoto end of the spectrum.
The SIGMA 10-18mm F2.8 DC DN | Contemporary ($599) is the world’s smallest and lightest F2.8 ultrawide zoom lens for APS-C format mirrorless camera systems and will be available to buy soon. The other lens is the development announcement of the SIGMA 70-200mm F2.8 DG DN OS | Sports lens, which is specifically designed for full-frame mirrorless camera systems.
In one corner of the technical race, we have companies like Nikon (Plena) and Canon (and their cine line) racing for sharpness and perfection. On the other corner, you have companies like Module 8 and Lomography ditching sharpness and going for Art! And the Nour Triplet V 2.0/64 is an Art lens in every sense of the word. Check out the Kickstarter here.
Well, you can say a lot of things about the Nour Triplet V 2.0/64 lens, but being perfect is not one of them. Instead, Lomography created a lens with a distinct look that may not be perfect, but is absolutely beautiful. No only that, it’s also controllable.
Do you ever struggle to know what gear to pack for a shoot? If you’re like me, you probably over-pack ‘just in case,’ and then in the end, you just use one or two lenses for the whole session.
If you can understand better what you can achieve with each lens, you might be able to plan ahead better and then pack accordingly. In this video from Adorama, Gavin Hoey takes us on a fascinating exploration of how varying focal lengths can transform a single location shoot into two distinct photography sessions.
Earlier this month, Laowa announced that they’d teamed up with Keslow Camera to produce a range of interchangeable-flare anamorphic lenses. What they did was modify their flagship Proteus line to release the Proteus Flex.
The whole concept is that it’s a standard Proteus lens but with a swappable anamorphic “module”. This module produces the flare colour, offering blue, amber or silver. DIYP went to check the system out in person at IBC 2023.
Macro photography is such an intense rabbit hole to fall into. There are all kinds of weird and wonderful lenses to try, especially these days, for all manner of subject matter. And we get sucked into every one of them!
Laowa’s adding to the wide array of macro tools available – and Laowa’s own extensive lineup of macro lenses – with the new Laowa Aurogon FF 10-50x NA0.5 Supermicro APO lens set (buy here). A full-frame 10-50x zoom super micro kit for really small subjects.
It looks like Nikon’s finally answered what they’re going to replace the old Nikon 135mm f/2 DC lens with. Naturally, it’s a Z mount lens, it’s the Nikkor Z S 135mm f/1.8 S Plena (buy here), and wants to be the new portrait standard for Z mount.
Of course, the new lens doesn’t gain the defocus control of its F mount predecessor, but it does get a slightly wider aperture. This should make for some very mushy backgrounds – if that’s your thing.
TTArtisan has announced a new low-budget lens. This one, though, is a little different to all the short focal length f/0.95 lenses. This one’s at the very opposite end of the spectrum with a 500mm focal length and max aperture of f/6.3.
It comes in a variety of mounts, including Sony E, Leica L, Nikon Z and Canon RF. Yes, those last two confirm what you suspect. As with most other TTArtisan lenses, this one’s a manual focus lens, too.
Tamron has officially announced the new Tamron 17-50mm f/4 Di III VXD (buy here) lens. A development announcement for the lens came in August, telling us the focal length range and that it would be for Sony E mount.
There wasn’t much else, though, and there was no price or release date. Well, now the price has been announced. And it’s not that bad, either. The lenses begin shipping in mid-October.
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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