Recent Guide Updates
Those that are part of our Discord community are always up to date what is coming next, for those that are not I put together this small summary.
Over the past weeks I have been updating all these guides once more. This is always a lot of work and not a lot of fun, so I hope you continue to find them useful. It is now finally the moment to complain that your favorite lens is not included 🙂
- Sony FE lenses: The honest Guide for the A7/A9/A1 Series
- 9-18mm Ultra-Wideangle lenses for the Sony A7/A9/A1 Series
- 20-28mm Wideangle lenses for the Sony A7/A9/A1 Series
- 35mm lenses for the Sony A7/A9/A1 Series
- 50mm lenses for the Sony A7/A9/A1 Series
- 85-200mm Portrait Lenses for the Sony A7/A9/A1 Series
I also noticed something rather unusual: usually lenses get cheaper over time, but compared to last year many of the Sony and Sigma lenses saw sometimes massive increases of their MSRP in the US thanks to the tariffs. The prices of the Chinese and Korean lenses are mostly stable, sometimes widening the gap even further.
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The excellent work you have done to put together the guides, both exhaustively in the amount of lenses reviewed, and succintly in the clear recommendations and descriptions, is commendable.
The generosity of the effort and labor of love, to build and offer an excellent resource for fellow photographers, is laudable and much appreciated.
I have great gratitutude for your work over the years. It has served me and many others well, and I always learn something when visiting reviews and comments of many of the frequent followers.
The exchange of experience and knowledge, is propbably the single most important ingredient for development of abilities, acquiring know-how and sustaining the constant pursuit of improvement.
The fact that this space has remained open over the years, is yet another merit I can only applaud.
A big thank you, and may this space have a long life!
Regarding lenses for upcoming reviews, I wonder if there is a chance you might review the recently announced Zeiss Otus ML lenses.
Having seen a lot of animosity, critique and skepticism towards Zeiss and their new Otus lenses for mirrorless cameras – some certainly justified, and some not so much – I would love to hear your assessment on this not so welcome come-back of Zeiss to the photography market.
At this point I say “maybe”.
Personally, I don’t find big and heavy manual focus 50mm 1.4 and 85mm 1.4 lenses particularly exciting.
Superior resolution (if that even is the case!) is no argument for me to pick those over one of the amazing AF lenses we have in that segment now. And from the first samples I have seen, these Zeiss lenses also don’t knock it out of the park rendering wise for me.
I also need to check if my Zeiss contacts from 10 years ago are still working. When I run out of other lenses to review I may do that.
Is there a Voigtlander 28mm f2.8 SL review planned in the future?
Yes
I am avid reader of this website nearly from the very beginning and consider the reviews to be the best one can find nowadays. Some of them helped me to choose the right lens just for me. And yes, those were the days when I could only afford adapted FD(etc.) lenses. So I was little bit sad when I found those venerable gems were not anymore able to be part of the guides. But hey:”Times they are changing.”
I am now too more interested in the current lens design, AF and so on. Keep them coming, I will gladly read any new article, even those Nikon oriented, one never knows… 🙂
Thank you for your outstanding effort with reviewing so many lenses, films, etc. I realy appreciate the independency, consistency of reviews and overall quality of sample images(!). An unusual combination of perks.
Wish you best luck!
Bastian, I am unable to donate via the PayPal link and get “Donations to this recipient are unavailable in this country” after logging into my account—a problem I run into often when trying to donate to Americans or Europeans. Do you have alternative ways to donate? Perhaps Stripe, TransferWise or Revolut
Thanks for telling me, I will look into those options!