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Tamron are well known for budget zoom lenses and it appears they have just announced a new and compact 17-35mm F/2.8-4 Di OSD ultra-wide-angle zoom lens for full-frame DSLR cameras. Carrying the company’s Model A037 designation, the new 17-35mm is not to be confused with the already
Announced back in May this year, the Zeiss Supreme Primes range include 13 new high-end lenses covering all the basis from the ultra-wide 15mm to the 200mm telephoto end, purpose built for large format sensors of the latest (and future) digital cinema cameras offering 4K+ resolutions such
I bet a lot of you are familiar with the Zeiss LWZ.3 or as it is probably more widely known – the Zeiss 21-100mm T2.9-3.9 lightweight zoom. For many documentary shooters equipped with a Sony FS7, C300 II or ARRI AMIRA, the Zeiss LWZ.3 is a standard
Sony announced the highly anticipated Sony FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS large aperture super-telephoto prime lens in E mount just a couple of days ago catering to high-end sports and wildlife photographers. Sony promises brilliant image quality, extraordinary focusing speed and precision while also boasting the lightest weight in
Samyang has some really good news today for all you photographers out there with Canon DSLRs – the company just announced their latest addition to their autofocus lens range – the AF 85mm f1.4 EF prime lens. The new Samyang AF 85mm f/1.4 EF covers full-frame sensors
Samyang have just announced their latest lens – a “tiny, but mighty” 24mm f/2.8 FE autofocus lens for Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras. The new Samyang AF 24mm f2.8 FE (also sold under the Rokinon brand in the US) appears to be positioned as “a perfect wide-angle lens
If there is one thing that Canon is known for – that’s making excellent lenses. And they’ve been doing this for donkey’s years; Canon lenses are the most popular lenses in the photo world and when it comes to the mighty 70-200mm range, their L-series variants are
Of the many truths regarding filmmaking equipment, one remains certain – high-quality cine lenses are not cheap, and they will never be. For a premium piece of glass with top-notch build quality and all the fancy focusing bells and whistles, expect to pay upwards of a few
Sigma have been killing it with their awesome Art series lenses, whose optics have migrated to their highly successful High-Speed Cine Primes and Zoom lenses. On the photo side of things, not that long ago Sigma announced a bunch of new lenses in their high-quality Art range,
You may recall the NiSi F3 Cine Primes from NAB 2018 we reported on in this post here, and while the cine lens marketplace continues to become more and more crowded as more and more companies announce new lenses, this eventually not only drives prices down –
Tamron have been pretty good at making one-stop-shop zoom lenses for events and general photography however, recently Tamron announced the launch of a high-speed, full frame 28-75mm f/2.8 standard zoom lens for Sony E-mount, amply titled – the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD (Model A036). The
Venus Optics, who’ve been making a splash with their Zero-D (or zero distortion) wide angle lenses for Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras and of course the tiny Laowa 7.5mm f2 for MFT (which is perfect for drones and the Panasonic GH5S when flying gimbals, mainly due to its
Just like most established as well as newcomer manufacturers SLR Magic used NAB 2018 as a platform to launch their new family of CINE lenses – the MicroPrime series. The SLR Magic MicroPrime CINE 25mm T1.5, 35mm T1.3, 50mm T1.2, and 75mm T1.5 are the first lenses
PolarPro, developer of products inspired by adventure and well known for their industry-leading drone camera filters, have just announced it is expanding its line of lens filters to professional photography and cinematography cameras. Continuing its tradition of quality with the new professional-focused, the new QuartzLine Camera Filters
NAB 2018 is not only about cameras, especially cine cameras and the like, which occupy a small part of the “broadcasters” convention, however over the years, as the industry moved to larger sensors we got to see plenty of manufacturers announce lenses for such. NiSi may not
At BVE 2018 I stopped by the Zeiss booth to catch up with my friend Luke from Zeiss about their latest Loxia 25mm f2.4 for Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras and the Milvus 25mm f1.4 for Canon/Nikon DSLRs and RED cameras. Announced earlier in February, the wide-angle Zeiss
The online Peer-to-Peer rental community marketplace has been growing for the most part in North America such as ShareGrid, which makes sense, it is the largest market after all with the highest concentration of video professionals, however lately there has been significant movements across the pond. Sure,
Well, if you are a full-frame Sony mirrorless shooter that is maybe currently shooting with an A7R II and/or eyeballing the new Sony a7 III, but have been salivating over those sweet Sigma Art primes and wished those would be available in your native Sony E mount?
The CP+ 2018 imaging and photography trade show is about to kick-off in just a couple of days in Japan, prompting lens makers to get their new product announcements as early as possible to avoid getting lost in the shuffle on opening day. We’ve already posted about
Some of you may recall the Tokina Firin 20mm f2.0 manual focus full-frame lens for Sony E mount that Tokina announced back in 2016, and now Tokina are back with an auto focus version of this lens, again designed for full-frame Sony sensors. The new Tokina FíRIN 20mm
