12 lenses of Christmas: Nikon unveil something huge in April 2022 - Digital Camera World

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Bigging up telephoto scope portion reducing size and weight, the Nikon Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S was officially announced successful April. It came arsenic nary astonishment that it’s a big, pricey lens but that’s not the full story. It’s really lone a 3rd of the terms of the equivalent Nikon 800mm f5.6E FL ED VR F-mount DSLR lens and, acknowledgment partially to featuring a Phase Fresnel optical element, it’s immoderate 2.3kg lighter successful weight. And if you consciousness that 800mm inactive doesn’t screen the distance, it’s compatible with some of Nikon’s Z-system 1.4x and 2.0x teleconverters.

Similarly epic Nikon quality from April was the company’s plans to motorboat 50 oregon much Z-system lenses by the twelvemonth 2025. In the shorter term
Nikon’s latest Z lens roadmap for DX-specific lenses turned retired to beryllium comparatively disappointing. There are lone 4 Z DX lenses connected the representation and 3 of those had already been released, namely the 16-50mm, 50-250mm and 18-140mm zooms. The lone 1 inactive connected the skyline is the Z DX 12-28mm.

Meanwhile, Canon launched its archetypal pro-grade, full-frame cinematic zoom lenses. Labelled the Flex Zoom series, they surely don’t travel inexpensive astatine $21,999 each. The CN-E20-50mm T2.4 L F / FP and CN-E45-135mm T2.4 L F / FP are claimed to present outstanding show for 4K and 8K HDR shooting. Canon besides announced its volition to motorboat a fast RF 35mm lens aboriginal successful the year.

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Upgrading its trinity modular zoom, Sony announced the FE 24-70mm f/2.8 G Master II. The Mark II variation is designed to beryllium much adept astatine video seizure arsenic good arsenic stills, portion besides enhancing representation prime and featuring a much precocious autofocus system.

There was nary stopping Laowa, who followed a drawstring of March announcements with yet much for April. These included the motorboat of a ‘red ring’ mentation of the Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift lens and a 0.7x ’speedbooster’. The institution besides announced that its first bid of anamorphic lenses was successful the pipeline, serving up a video trailer to pique interest.

For the heavy of pocket, Leica launched a matte black, peculiar constricted variation of its 28mm Summicron-M f/2, costing conscionable nether $4,500. Even so, that’s small much than fractional the terms of the Vazen 135mm T2.8 1.8x anamorphic lens for afloat framework EF and PL equine cameras, announced successful the aforesaid period and pursuing connected from the company’s 50mm and 85mm lenses successful its 1.8x anamorphic line-up. Meanwhile, down successful the bargain basement, AstrHori launched a 50mm f/1.4 Tilt lens for conscionable $259.

Our April lens investigating programme featured 3 caller autofocus offerings for Sony full-frame E-mount cameras, each from Samyang (also badged arsenic Rokinon successful the USA). First up was the Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE, the company’s archetypal ever zoom lens, which turned retired to beryllium a highly susceptible and cost-effective trinity modular zoom.

Next up was the bokehlicious Samyang AF 135mm F1.8 FE, cleanable for choky caput shots successful portraiture and afloat compatible with Sony’s eye-detection and tracking autofocus modes. And finally, determination was the accelerated Samyang AF 50mm F1.4 FE II modular prime, each 3 Samyang/Rokinon lenses earning rave reviews from us.

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Matthew Richards is simply a lensman and writer who has spent years utilizing and reviewing each mode of photograph gear. He is Digital Camera World's main lens reviewer – and has tested much primes and zooms than astir radical person had blistery dinners!

His expertise with instrumentality doesn’t extremity there, though. He is besides an encyclopedia when it comes to each mode of cameras, camera holsters and bags, flashguns, tripods and heads, printers, papers and inks, and conscionable astir thing imaging-related.

In an earlier beingness helium was a broadcast technologist astatine the BBC, arsenic good arsenic a erstwhile exertion of PC Guide.

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