When released in 2008, the Nikon AF-S 50mm 1.4G was the first fast prime lens updated to the AF-S standard, adding an in-lens AF-S ring motor and ditching the aperture ring. Already back in the day this wasn’t exactly considered a high performance lens, so where does it stand today? Let’s find out in this review.
Everyone talks about the size advantage of mirrorless cameras these days, but actually this is mainly limited to wide angle to normal lenses while there is hardly one when it comes to tele lenses. This Voigtländer 90mm 2.8 SL IIs Apo-Skopar is a good example for that, as it is really compact for a 90mm lens. But is it also a good perfomer? Let’s find out in this review.
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Many of us here at the Phillipreeve team acquire too many lenses (and sometimes also accessories) and with some of the manufacturers it also isn’t easily possible to return the review samples after we reviewed them, therefore a bunch of stuff is for sale.
Update February 23rd, 2025: removed sold items
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MS-Optics 57mm 2.0 Petz
This lens has only been used for the review and is in as-new condition. Comes with full retail packaging and accessories (as shown in the picture).
Rangefinder coupling is calibrated for f/2.0, infinity hard stop is also calibrated.
Pictures taken with this lens can be found here.
749€ + shipping
Released in 2000, the Nikon AF 14mm 2.8D is still the widest auto focus prime lens sold under the Nikon brand to this day. As some of the recent Z-mount lenses, this is also a rebranded Tamron lens though. The existing reviews didn’t paint a clear picture, so I decided to have a closer look at it myself.
I wasn’t a big fan of most of Samyang’s earlier lenses, especially not their early autofocus lenses. Their latest lenses have shown significant improvements over the earlier ones though and this Samyang 135mm 1.8 AF FE even features a unique selling point: it is the lightest 135mm 1.8 lens ever made. And not only that, it is currently also the cheapest option. Do cheap and lightweight go together with good here? Let’s find out in this review.
