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Engineers at MIT & UMass Lowell have created a completely flat 1mm thick fisheye lens

Sep 21, 2020 John Aldred

Love them or hate them (and many people hate them), we all know what fisheye lenses are. They look sort of like regular lenses, except…



Stupidly wide, The Laowa 9mm f5.6 W-Dreamer on the Sigma FP

Sep 20, 2020 Paul Monaghan

I’m no stranger to a wide-angle lens, back in my crop Pentax days I used to love shooting my old Samyang 8mm Fisheye, and more…



ZY Optics announces super bright Mitakon Speedmaster 17mm f/0.95 lens for Micro Four Thirds

Sep 16, 2020 John Aldred

ZY Optics has expanded their f/0.95 Micro Four Thirds lens lineup with the new Mitakon Speedmaster 17mm f/0.95 lens, offering a similar field of view…



Do you really need a lens hood?

Sep 8, 2020 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

To be quite honest, I almost never use a lens hood. On the other hand, I know photographers who never take it off their lenses….



These guys bought the cheapest 800mm zoom lens on Wish just to see if it was any good

Sep 1, 2020 John Aldred

I’m a big fan of cheap lenses. I don’t care even care if they mostly suck. Sometimes, a really cheap terrible lens can offer you…



This 5x macro is possibly the strangest lens you’ve ever seen

Sep 1, 2020 John Aldred

There are a lot of oddball lenses out there these days. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. Look at Laowa’s crazy lookin’…



Laowa new super compact ultra-wide 11mm f/4.5 full-frame lens actually has a front filter thread

Aug 28, 2020 John Aldred

Laowa has today announced their new 11mm f/4.5 FF RL lens. It’s a tiny lens for its short focal length and wide field of view…



Pergear released a new 35mm f/1.2 lens for MFT and APS-C mirrorless – and it’s only $109

Aug 27, 2020 John Aldred

Pergear has been going a bit nuts lately on the low-budget lenses. It was only in March that they released their 35mm f/1.6 and 50mm…



Leica’s “Made in Portugal” lenses are up to $500 cheaper than their German-made counterparts

Aug 27, 2020 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Leica has just relaunched nine M-mount lenses we’ve already been familiar with. But this time, they’re cheaper. The thing is that they were made in…



Bison: 1 – Woman: 0 – Don’t get close to wild animals for photos

Aug 24, 2020 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

A woman recently got attacked by a bison at Custer State Park in South Dakota. Maybe you can already guess how the incident happened –…