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The newer lensmakers that were making manual focus lenses last year are all moving on into autofocus this year. This is the first time that I’ve reviewed an autofocus lens from Brightin Star, and they’ve created an interesting one – an autof...

Sony’s relationship with teleconverters on their mirrorless E-mount platform has been, well, difficult. While in many ways Sony E-mount has been the most open platform in the history of photography, Sony essentially chose two primary areas to ...

Sometimes companies surprise you. I’ve been waiting for an autofocus zoom lens to come from one of the Chinese lensmakers, fully expecting it to be Viltrox or perhaps Sirui. Instead it comes from a very unexpected source – new lensmaker Thyp...

Lens design often becomes othodoxy. 70-200mm telephoto zooms “always” have fixed aperture of F2.8 or F4, but 70-300mm or 100-400mm zooms are “always” variable aperture. 70-200mm zooms are internally zooming, but 70-300mm or 100-400mm zooms are...