The Tamron SP 85mm f1.8 Di VC USD is a stabilized full-frame short telephoto lens available in Canon, Nikon, and Sony A mounts. Announced in February 2016, it complements the series of stabilized f1.8 primes from Tamron. The new lens is also compatible with Tamron’s new USB dock for fine-tuning AF and VC or firmware…
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The Tamron SP 90mm f2.8 Di Macro VC USD is a stabilized full-frame macro lens available in Canon, Nikon, and Sony A mount. Announced in February 2016, it’s already the second iteration of Tamron’s stabilized 90mm macro from 2012 claiming improved stabilization from a newly added XY-shift compensation and better weather sealing. The new lens…
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The Fujifilm XF 90mm f2 is yet another superb quality lens for the X-system: a bright telephoto prime that delivered excellent results across the board in my tests. Most commonly the 135mm equivalent focal length will be used for portraiture, at which the XF 90mm excels, capturing crisp and fine details of the subject with…
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The Sigma 24-35mm f2.0 DG HSM Art is a unique zoom combining the largest aperture of a full-frame zoom available to-date with a rather short 1.5x range which none-the-less covers most focal-lengths that you would want for wide-angle coverage like 24mm, 28mm, and 35mm. It is the second zoom in Sigma’s highly acclaimed “Art” series…
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The Fujinon XF 35mm f2 is a compact prime lens with standard coverage that performs much better than you might expect. With its tapered design and f2 aperture, you might assume the XF 35mm f2 plays second fiddle to the more serious-looking XF 35mm f1.4 which helped launch the system almost four years earlier –…
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The AF-S Nikkor 24mm f1.4G ED is a wide-angle bright prime lens designed for Nikon DSLRs. It dates from January 2010 and is the widest member of Nikon’s line-up of professional f1.4 primes comprising 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm focal lengths. Large aperture 24mm lenses are attractive additions to interchangeable lens bodies of DX or…
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The Sigma 20mm f1.4 DG HSM Art is a wide angle prime lens, available in Canon, Nikon, and Sigma mounts. Announced in October 2015, it’s the widest prime lens in Sigma’s highly acclaimed Art series which so far have all earned our Highly Recommended award; see my Sigma 24mm f1.4 Art review, my Sigma 35mm…
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The Sigma 24mm f1.4 DG HSM Art is a wide angle prime lens, available in Canon, Nikon and Sigma mounts. Announced in February 2015, it’s the second widest prime lens in Sigma’s highly acclaimed Art series which includes the 50mm, 35mm, and 20mm f1.4 models. Expectations are high since the 50mm and 35mm lenses earned…
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The Tamron SP 45mm f/1.8 Di VC USD is a full-frame standard lens available in Canon, Nikon, and Sony mounts. It was announced in August 2015 together with its shorter sibling, the Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC USD. These lenses are some of the few stabilized short primes on the market. Introducing stabilized primes…
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The Nikon COOLPIX L840 is a super-zoom with a 38x optical zoom lens and a 16 Megapixel CMOS sensor. Launched in February 2015, it’s an update to the hugely popular COOLPIX L830 which was launched a year earlier and remains in the COOLPIX line-up for now. The new model extends the zoom range from 34x…
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