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Sirui may not be a household name among photographers yet, but the company has been a player with the cinema lenses for more than a decade. They are well-known for the anamorphic cine lenses. However, they also released some more photography-centric AF lenses with their Aurora (full-format) and Sniper (APS-C) lineups. One of them is [...]

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The FE 100mm f/2.8 macro GM OSS is Sony’s 2nd generation macro lens for the E-mount system. It supersedes the FE 90mm f/2.8 macro G OSS, which has been with us since 2015. Sony is convinced that they created something special here because they lifted the designation from G to GM class for the new [...]

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Introduction After all these fancy new lenses for mirrorless cameras, let’s do a little excursion to a blast of the past – the not-yet-quite-vintage Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/1.4 E ED in Nikon F mount, released back in 2016. It’ll be part of a miniseries of reviews where we’ll cover some of the more iconic Nikon [...]

Introduction We tested the Viltrox AF 9mm f/2.8 Air (black version) in Sony E-mount a while ago already. For obvious reasons, we’ll reuse most of the findings of this test here again. The MTFs, vignetting, and CAs tests were run again, though. The 9mm f/2.8 Air XF is an APS-C format lens equivalent to about [...]

Introduction This is a retest of the Viltrox AF 15mm f/1.7 Air XF – this time with a silver finish, which matches with the silver-top Fujifilm cameras a la X-T5 and the like. We’ll reuse most of the original review, but the MTF and CA tests were executed again with this sample. It’s an APS-C [...]