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Sony 16-35mm f/2.8 GM II
In the least dramatic reveal for some time, I mentioned at the end of my Sony 16-35mm f/2.8 GM review that I’d already placed an order to hire the Mark II version. In that review I noted that, despite my lack of love for wide angle, the Mark I version has great image quality, but…
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Sony 85mm f/1.8 FE
I was walking from a playground to fetch coffee for me, my wife and the parents of another couple when I was idly browsing the internet. I read a piece about affordable Sony primes and saw the 85mm being lauded. I was a bit unsure about 85mm; to that point I’d been a 35mm-50mm man.…
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Olympus M.Zuiko 40-150mm f/4.0-5.6 R
I’m a bit of a sucker for a zoom lens. I don’t mean I love them; I mean I buy them. My joint first lens for a removable lens camera was the Canon EF 55-200mm 4.5/5.6 II USM which I could probably sum up as “not very good”. But I still bought it thinking I…
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Sony 16-35mm f/2.8 GM
I feel bad about wide angle. Well maybe not bad, but like I’m missing something; as if it’s something I should be better at. I am not a massive fan. There’s too much in the frame; too much to get right. I’ve been trying with the Olympus 9-18mm (more on that soon). I can cope…
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Tamron 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD
This is a tough one. Not just because Tamron model names have a ludicrous number of letters. I’ve long been aware that my Sony APS-C sensor (for me the camera models starting with a 6) lack a general-purpose zoom lens. I’ve not really fancied paying the price for the 16-55mm Sony f/2.8, and the 16-50mm…
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Olympus M.Zuiko 25mm f/1.8
It’s the law of any camera format that you have to have a 50mm ish equivalent lens, i.e. one that has the same field of view, roughly, as a 50mm lens on a full-frame (35mm film) camera. We can have an extremely unedifying debate about what a “Normal lens“; the short version is it should,…
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Samyang AF 35mm f/2.8 FE
I’ve written about purchasing the Samyang 45mm as my first full-frame Sony lens, and how much I like it. In 2021, knowing I’d be going to a leaving do and that it was one of my first large events since COVID first hit us, I purchased the wider, smaller and slower 35mm lens. Mount Sony…
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Olympus M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro
The Lumix 12-32mm is an immensely impressive lens; light, decent and very cheap. The price to pay for this is it’s pretty slow; f/3.5-f/5.6, so particularly at the far end it’s hard to use indoors. Remember too that micro four thirds ‘equivalent’ depth of field is twice that of a full-frame sensor, so a f/5.6…
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Olympus M.Zuiko 75mm f/1.8
Using the Canon FD 135mm made me appreciate just how lovely a portrait lens that has a relatively narrow field of view can be. I read a piece online, which I think might have been this Digital Camera World list, that made the case for the Olympus 75mm. Seeing a “well used” (read: scuffed a…
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Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
It’s the first post for Lens Flair, my project to use every lens I have this year. First up: the full-frame f/2.8 beautiful lens that is something of a Christmas treat. Mount Sony E (Full frame) Weight 695g Purchased Rented over Christmas 2023 From Wex Price £96 Having the lens has been a bit of…
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