{"id":69484,"date":"2026-05-29T08:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/?p=69484"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:41:35","slug":"recent-guide_updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/recent-guide_updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Guide Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Recent Guide Updates<\/h2>\n<p>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 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/fe-lenses-sony-comprehensive-independent-guide\/\">Sony FE lenses: The honest Guide for the A7\/A9\/A1 Series<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/user-guide-ultra-wideangle-lenses-sony-alpha-7-series\/\">9-18mm Ultra-Wideangle lenses for the Sony A7\/A9\/A1 Series<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/wideangle-lenses-for-the-sony-alpha-7-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20-28mm Wideangle lenses for the Sony A7\/A9\/A1 Series<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/guide-to-best-sony-e-mount-35mm-lenses-for-a7iii-a7ii-a7riv-a7riii\/\">35mm lenses for the Sony A7\/A9\/A1 Series<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/guide-to-the-best-50mm-lenses-for-full-frame-sony-e-mount-cameras-a7iii-a7ii-a7riv-a7riii-a9-a9ii\/\">50mm lenses for the Sony A7\/A9\/A1 Series<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/user-guide-to-portrait-lenses-sony-a7-series\/\">85-200mm Portrait Lenses for the Sony A7\/A9\/A1 Series<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also noticed something rather unusual: new lenses used 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. Especially some of the older Sony lenses are really bad deals now.<\/p>\n<h2>Supporting Us<\/h2>\n<p>This website is advertising free, except for the unobtrusive affiliate links. 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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 \ud83d\ude42 Sony &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/recent-guide_updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recent Guide Updates<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Recent Guide Updates - phillipreeve.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/recent-guide_updates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recent Guide Updates - phillipreeve.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recent Guide Updates Over the past weeks I have been updating all these guides once more. 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