Recent 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 also the ideal moment now to complain that your favorite lens is not included 🙂
- 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
- 85-135mm Portrait Lenses for the Sony A7/A9/A1 Series
Some time ago I also removed the FE list from the header bar, as it hadn’t been updated in 6 years. To my surprise no one complained about it, so I guess no one is missing it.
Upcoming Content
There are many exciting reviews to be released in the coming weeks and months. We have received some extremely promising unreleased lenses, where we have to wait with publishing their reviews until they are finally being officially released – which sometimes can take several months.
There will also be new reviews of affordable as well as expensive and exotic lenses from different decades.
The Analogue Adventures will also continue. Some new film stocks hit the market, but I will also be having a look at many discontinued ones, especially slide films. This is mainly thanks to two of our readers, who tracked down plenty of these for me.
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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