Take 5! Canon had already launched 4 VCM (Voice Coil Motor) autofocus lenses for hybrid shooters, and right here got here one other one. Sure, the RF 20mm, 24mm, 35mm and 50mm f/1.4L VCM lenses had been to be joined by an eagerly anticipated Canon RF 85mm f/1.4L VCM, sometimes engineered for each stills and video seize. It promised to be much more compact, light-weight and inexpensive than the extra stills-focused Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM, which was excellent news all spherical.
Then there was a dynamic duo from Nikon. Very like buses, you wait ages for a brand new Z DX lens to return alongside, then two flip up directly. We broke the information {that a} Nikon 35mm f/1.7 Macro and 16-50mm f/2.8 zoom had been within the pipeline for APS-C format Z system cameras. With just one Z DX prime lens beforehand on provide and no quick zooms, it was a really welcome announcement, and a reinforcement that the Z DX system was to be taken severely.
A fast look by way of the back-catalog of legendary prime lenses for DSLRs will reveal the Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4. Like its 50mm sibling, this lens made information with a mirrorless makeover, the brand new variations coming in Canon RF, Nikon Z, and Sony FE mount choices. It’s value noting nonetheless that like the unique 85mm lens, the brand new model is manual-focus and doesn’t come low cost, with a listed launch value of $2,999 / £2,350.
If the Zeiss 85mm is just too wealthy to your style (and your pockets), you would possibly nicely be extra within the new 7Artisans 75mm f/1.4 at a fraction of the value. That’ll be $189 to be precise. It was launched concurrently with the 7Artisans 14mm f/2.8 ultra-wide-angle prime, at $299. Just like the Zeiss, the 7Artisans lenses are manual-focus, this time for Sony E, Nikon Z, Canon RF and L-mount cameras. In the meantime, a brand new APS-C format TTArtisans 23mm f/1.8 autofocus lens for Sony E-mount cameras hit the streets for $127 / £139 / AU$249, increasing the earlier vary of Fujifilm X and Nikon Z choices.
Extensive in viewing angle however not is dimension, the brand new featherweight APS-C format Viltrox AF 15mm f/1.7 Air launched in Fujifilm X, Nikon Z and Sony E mount choices. With an ‘efficient’ 22.5mm focal size in full-frame phrases, you’ll be able to actually cram rather a lot into the body, and you may nearly squeeze the lens itself right into a spare pocket. Once more, it’s an autofocus lens and is nice worth, coming in at an inventory value of $239 / £229. Viltrox additionally got down to scale new heights with its first DJI-mount lens for drones, the Viltrox AF 90mm f/3.5 DL.
In an identical however extra techy vein to the 14mm and 75mm primes we talked about earlier, a pair of comparatively all-singing, all-dancing autofocus lenses joined the Prima vary for Sony mirrorless cameras, launching because the LK Samyang 85mm f/1.8 P FE and AF 16mm f/2.8 P FE primes. It added to the Prima 35mm already available on the market (see under), once more badged as ‘Rokinon’ within the USA. And talking of 35mm lenses, the Meike 35mm f/1.8 Professional was launched at $379 / £279 / AU$573 for Sony E, Nikon Z and L-mount cameras.
So the place had been all of the zoom lenses? Because it turned out, there was just one launched this month. Tamron accomplished its Technology 2 trinity of zooms with the ultra-wide Tamron 16-30mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 for Sony and Nikon full-frame mirrorless cameras. Comparatively quick in addition to huge, the constant-aperture f/2.8 zoom lens launched at $929 / £850, south of a 4-figure price ticket.
It was LK Samyang all the best way, or Rokinon when you’re on the west aspect of the pond, in our July evaluation schedule. We examined a trio of Prima primes for Sony full-frame cameras, comprising the LK Samyang AF 16mm f/2.8 P FE, LK Samyang AF 35mm f/1.4 P FE and LK Samyang AF 85mm f/1.8 P FE, plus the LK Samyang AF 12mm f/2 RF-S APS-C format lens for Canon EOS R-system cameras.
