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    Laowa ‘leaks’ a 9.5mm ultra wide angle rectilinear lens
    Jan 22, 2020 Ole Henrik Skjelstad

    Laowa is absolutely killing it with new lenses! They already have a 4mmF/2.8 fisheye lens, a rumored F/0.95 ARGUS lens, and a 12mm t2.9 full-frame…

    Breakdown of the Nikon Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S lens shows internal design like nothing before
    Jan 15, 2020 John Aldred

    Seeing lenses taken apart and dismantled for the first time, or anything mechanically or electronically complex just fascinates me. I don’t know what it is…

    Paul C. Buff is back with the LINK battery-powered, TTL & HSS-capable strobe
    Jan 14, 2020 John Aldred

    It’s been a while since Paul C Buff has really released anything new. Sure, they announced the “DigiBee” back in 2016, but that was more…

    Keeping it small, using rear filters for the Sigma 14-24 f2.8 Art DG DN
    Jan 9, 2020 Paul Monaghan

    A while ago Sigma joined the L mount alliance along with Panasonic and Leica.  Although it wasn’t really till recently that we started to see…

    Nikon’s new 120-300mm f/2.8E zoom is a beautiful monster of a lens
    Jan 8, 2020 John Aldred

    Well, this one’s come just in time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, huh? While Canon seems to be dumping EF, Nikon isn’t abandoning the F…

    70-200mm f/2.8 finally comes to Nikon Z mount and it’s cheaper than F mount
    Jan 7, 2020 John Aldred

    Well, this is one all the Z mount shooters have been waiting for. Nikon has now finally announced the Nikon Nikkor Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR…

    Hands on with the Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III – A landscape perspective
    Jan 6, 2020 Ole Henrik Skjelstad

    My main objective isn’t to provide an in-depth ‘review’ of the lens, but I hope to offer the reader a few insights in terms of…

    Adapting industrial lenses for extreme macro photography
    Jan 1, 2020 Peter Lin

    If you ever visited some industrial surplus shops, very often you would see some cameras and lenses used in industrial automation. But you probably do…

    The history of the fisheye lens and why it’s used for album covers
    Dec 18, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Fisheye lenses are useful for different purposes, from scientific to artistic. But there’s one field where their unique look has been consistently popular from the…

    Leica has finally released the $12,995 Summilux-M 90mm f/1.5 ASPH lens
    Dec 12, 2019 John Aldred

    It’s been a long while since the Leica Summilux 90mm f/1.5 ASPH lens was first rumoured way back in 2017. Finally, last week, things looked…