This 32mm f/2.5 lens is designed to fit DSLR and mirrorless cameras via appropriate adaptors and is designed to mimic the high contrast, high saturation, vignetted effect of Lomography’s Lomo LC-A camera to a digital audience. It’s a way to get an old-style lo-fi hipster look without having to buy and use the quirky plastic […]
Lenses
You need a camera to capture an image, but you need a lens to form the image in the first place. With compact cameras and smartphones the lens comes with the camera. With DSLRs and mirrorless cameras you get to choose the lenses you use, and the things you can do with them... exciting!
Tamron is developing three new full-frame lenses
Tamron has announced two new full-frame DSLR lenses and an ultra-wide-angle zoom for full frame Sony E-mount cameras, and all three offer a tantalising alternative to mainstream lenses. There was a time when we only found out about new lenses when they were released, but there’s a fashion now for makers to announce new lens […]
Fujifilm adds FUJINON XF16mmF2.8 R WR to its X-mount prime lens range
Fujifilm has added the FUJINON XF16mmF2.8 R WR to is range of compact primes lenses for X-mount cameras like the X-T3 and and X-T30. It’s the widest lens in this series, equivalent to a 24mm wide-angle in 35mm camera terms, though its f/2.8 maximum aperture is one f-stop slower than other lenses in the series, […]
Panasonic officially launches the Lumix S1 and S1R
We’ve known these cameras were coming since Photokina (September 2018) but this is the first sight we have of the full specs for the new cameras. Panasonic showed off pre-production versions of its new models at a global press event in Barcelona on January 31 2019, together with the three new lenses which are going […]
HD Pentax-DA* 11-18mm F2.8 ED DC AW announced for APS-C Pentax owners
Pentax has added to its premium quality ‘Star’ lens range with a new ultra-wideangle zoom for its APS-C cameras. The HD Pentax-DA* 11-18mm F2.8 ED DC AW is designed to offer high resolution and high contrast without any blurring at the edges, and to accommodate the high resolution capture of digital cameras of the future. […]
Pentax launches the full frame HD Pentax-FA 35mm F2
Well here’s a rarity. A full frame 35mm f/2 lens that doesn’t need an engine hoist to get it into your camera bag. In fact, the new Pentax HD Pentax-FA 35mm F2 is very compact for a wide aperture prime lens with this focal length. This is how big 35mm SLR lenses used to be […]
New Kenko TELEPLUS HD Pro teleconverters
These replace Kenko’s previous TELEPLUS Pro300 teleconverters and come with redesigned optics and multi-layer coatings to bring them up to date with the latest high-resolution DSLRs and lenses. Teleconverters fit between the lens and the camera body and magnify the image to produce a stronger telephoto effect. They come in different strengths, typically 1.4x and […]