Category Archives: 3rd Party Lens

Samyang MF 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS for APS-C Mirrorless Cameras

Samyang Press Release Samyang unveils the MF 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS lens for mirrorless cameras with APS-C crop sensors Samyang Optics launches a new manual-focus lens for mirrorless shooters: The MF 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS is designed for use with APS-C sensor mirrorless cameras in the following mounts: Sony E, Fujifilm X, Canon M, and Micro-Four-Thirds. […]

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Laowa 9mm f/2.8 Zero-D Astrophotography Meetup

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bma9DU6A9NI/ Saturday night we had a big meetup at Kirby Storter Roadside Park that we pushed via social media with our sister sites and it was a great night, thank you to everyone that came out. I had to wait several hours for the sky to clear to get my final image above (High Rez Here), but while […]

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Fringer Firmware V2.30 Released

As we planned, V2.30 firmware has been released for Fringer EF/FX smart adapters. Improvements integrated in V2.30 include: Bug fixed: For some zoom lenses, when working at certain focal length, AF may repeatedly fail to acquire focus point. Bug fixed: Due to some minor differences of the mount protocol processing between the lens and the […]

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Net SE The Company Behind Meyer Optik Görlitz is in Bankruptcy

There’s been a pretty big jump in third-party lens releases over the past two years and Meyer Optik Görlitz has been a part of that jump. Unfortunately, Net SE which is the company behind Meyer Optik Görlitz, Ihagee and Schacht has been in bankruptcy since mid-July. At this time it is unknown what will be the effect of […]

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Shoten (Techart) EF-FG 01 Firmware Update 2.0.1

The Shoten EF-FG01 just received a firmware update to 2.0.1 and you can download it here. The Shorten EF-FG01 is basically just a generic Techart EF-FG01. Improvements Corresponds to “35 mm format mode” setting Initialization of TechartEF-GFX adapter The firmware v2.0.1 requires initialization at first connection. The camera has to save the parameters of your lens in […]

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7artisans Photoelectric 12mm f/2.8 Lens for Fujifilm X-mount

Update: Yes this lens was teased 8 months ago and my post for it is here, but it wasn’t available at that time and I did not receive any additional details to share until now. A certain site is trying desperately to paint a different picture for some reason… Must be running out of ways to […]

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