Category Archives: 3rd Party Lens

AstrHori RockStar X-Mount 10mm, 14mm, 27mm, 50mm, and 50mm Tilt Lenses Now Available on Amazon

AstrHori RockStar lenses are quite interesting lenses that up until now have been largely available on eBay. Their lenses are now available for X-mount on Amazon which should help to make the brand grow since they have a very interesting lineup. AstrHori 50mm F1.4 Manual Tilt AstrHori 50mm F2.0 AstrHori 27mm F2.8 II AstrHori 14mm […]

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Tokina Price Increase Coming April 8, 2022

Notice of price revision for interchangeable lenses for Tokina cameras and Kenko optical products Kenko Tokina Co., Ltd. Dear Sir, We would like to express our sincere gratitude to you for your continued support. We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your continued support. By the way, it has become difficult to maintain […]

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Voigtlander NOKTON 23mm f/1.2 ASPH and VM-E Close Focus Adapter II Confusion

The Voigtlander NOKTON 23mm f/1.2 ASPH was first leaked here and details about the lens were announced here. We also published the announcement of the Voigtlander VM-X Close Focus II here. These products are even listed on Cosina Voigtlander’s website. So it is a bit strange that asobinet and Digicame-info are reporting these products will […]

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TTArtisan Titanium Trio Bundle

TTArtisan released a titanium bundle of lenses to compliment dark silver Fujifilm cameras well. You can find the Bundle on B&H Photo at this time or the TTArtisan Store. Special version with Titanium Grey Now is ready for you 35mm f1.4, 50mm f1.2, and 17mm f1.4 from TTArtisan were called as APS-C trio. Now they are coming back […]

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Sigma 18-50mm f/2 DC DN Patent Found

Asobinet found a patent for a Sigma 18-50mm f/2 DC DN that might have been in the works while the Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN Contemporary was under development. It is unlikely we will see this interesting f/2 zoom anytime soon, but maybe Sigma will go back to it if f/2 zooms become popular. The […]

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DPRTV: Sigma 16mm, 30mm, 56mm f/1.4 vs Fujinon 16mm f/1.4, 33mm f/1.4, 56mm f/1.2 – Largely Comes Down to Price

Sigma just announced 3 contemporary prime lenses for X-mount the Sigma 16mm, 30mm, and 56mm f/1.4. All of Sigma’s lenses are light, compact, metal, and have some weather sealing, but the Fujinon WR lenses are probably sealed a little better and most Fujinon lenses have aperture rings. All are known commodities with good image quality, […]

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