![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Viltrox described this as their fullframe benchmark lens when it was released in 2023 and for good reasons: great optical performance, useful controls coupled with an LC display not found anywhere else and all that at a surprisingly low and very competitive pricepoint.įrom a technological point of view this is the most advanced lens on this list, not only ahead of the other manufacturers from China, but also of many of those from Japan.ĥ60g | $549 | AF | Exif | E-mount | Review | Sample imagesīuy from manufacturer’s shop (global) | B&H | (affiliate links) Viltrox 16mm 1.8 AF Sony A7III | Viltrox FE 16mm 1.8 AF | f/1.8 There is hardly any competition in the M/Z/RF/L-mount worlds though, making this a desirable lens for many users to this day.ĥ20g | $649 | MF | no Exif | E/M/Z/RF/L-mount | Review | Sample imagesīuy from manufacturer’s shop | | B&H | (affiliate links) When it comes to the E-mount world there are two strong competitors that you should surely check out as well: the way more expensive Sony FE 14mm 1.8 GM and the next entry on this list, the Viltrox 16mm 1.8 AF. This 15mm 2.0 was actually Laowa’s first mirrorless design (first shown at Photokina in 2016) and it is a lens I am using since and that proved to be very useful for taking pictures in dimly lit environments without a tripod as well as for astrophotography and also for wide-angle close ups. Laowa 15mm 2.0 Sony A7III | Laowa 15mm 2.0 | f/2.0 | no tripod Despite being noticeably wider this is a much better performer than the more expensive Voigtländer 10mm 5.6 and therefore a real masterpiece of Laowa’s lens designer.Ī lens this wide will probably not be your bread-and-butter lens and it takes some skill to use it properly, but I took plenty of pictures with it I really like and that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.ģ73g | $599 | MF | no Exif | E/M/Z/L-mount | Review | Sample imagesīuy from manufacturer’s shop | B&H | | (affiliate links) This is not only the world’s widest rectilinear (meaning non- fisheye) lens, it is also much better than it should be. Ultra Wide Angle Lenses Laowa 9mm 5.6 Sony A7III | Laowa 9mm 5.6 | f/5.6 ![]() I bought several of the lenses on this list for my personal use and do actually use them regularly.I recommend to either buy them from a local distributor or directly from the manufacturer’s online shop for better product support I am not sure if the chance to receive a decentered or otherwise defective lens is actually higher compared to manufacturers from Japan/Germany, but getting one of these lenses replaced can in fact be more difficult.As an example: the TTArtisan 50mm 1.4 has absolutely nothing in common with the TTArtisan 50mm 1.4 Tilt – smart people buy products they like, fanboys buy whatever product from brands they like With most of these manufacturers there is little consistency across their line-up when it comes to mechanical design as well as optical performance.I have reviewed a lot of lenses, but not all and you may also favour different aspects in a lens than I do, so this can obviously never be a “complete” list.Many Chinese manufacturers also offer unique and interesting APS-C lenses, but I have little to no experience with those I am only talking about fullframe lenses here. ![]()
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