Hands-on with third party lenses at CP+
Photo: Richard Butler When we asked which CP+ announcements you wanted us to take a closer look at, we got several responses asking for more information on the many third-party lenses that have been announced at the show. So Richard Butler hit up five booths to get pictures and whatever extra snippets of information that 7Artisans, Laowa, Samyang, TTArtisan and Viltrox would give us. 7Artisans Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab. At the 7Artisans booth, we got to see the several new lenses the company announced. For full-frame there's a 24mm F1.8 for E, Z and L mounts. The company is also creating L-mount versions of its 50 and 85mm F1.8 lenses. For APS-C, there are three F2.8 autofocus lenses coming out for E, X and Z mounts: a 25m, 35mm and 50mm. There's also a 35mm F1.4, initially releasing for X mount but coming to E and Z later, as well as a 27mm F2.8 lens for X mount by mid-March. Laowa Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab. Laowa had an interesting array of prototype lenses at its booth. There's the full-frame, manual focus 8-15mm F2.8 fisheye zoom, which will likely be released for E, Z, RF and L mounts, as well as the 15mm F4.5 0.5x wide-angle Macro, which will likely be available for the same mounts. Finally, there's the 35mm tilt-shift F2.8 0.5x Macro lens for Fujifilm's GFX mount. Samyang Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab. Much of what we saw at Samyang's booth has already been announced, such as the Remaster Slim modular lens and the APS-C AF 12mm F2 lens for Canon's RF mount. However, the company was also showing off its new 14-24mm F2.8 full-frame lens for Sony E mount and teasing some unspecified future lenses. TTArtisan Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab. TTArtisan's most interesting CP+ announcement wasn't a lens at all but a folding instant camera with manual controls, which you can read more about here. However, the company was also showing off an AF 23mm F1.8 lens for X mount and an AF 14mm F3.5 lens for E mount. Viltrox Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab. Viltrox had several new lenses at the show this year: there's a new flagship 35mm F1.2 LAB for E mount. Sony shooters will also be getting an 85mm F1.4 Pro lens, while Nikon shooters will finally be getting access to the company's existing 135mm 1.8 LAB lens next month. The company also showed off its full-frame 50mm F2.0 Air lens, which it claims will have the "best IQ of the AIR series." It will be available in E, Z, and X mounts.
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When we asked which CP+ announcements you wanted us to take a closer look at, we got several responses asking for more information on the many third-party lenses that have been announced at the show. So Richard Butler hit up five booths to get pictures and whatever extra snippets of information that 7Artisans, Laowa, Samyang, TTArtisan and Viltrox would give us.
7Artisans
At the 7Artisans booth, we got to see the several new lenses the company announced.
For full-frame there's a 24mm F1.8 for E, Z and L mounts. The company is also creating L-mount versions of its 50 and 85mm F1.8 lenses.
For APS-C, there are three F2.8 autofocus lenses coming out for E, X and Z mounts: a 25m, 35mm and 50mm. There's also a 35mm F1.4, initially releasing for X mount but coming to E and Z later, as well as a 27mm F2.8 lens for X mount by mid-March.
Laowa
Laowa had an interesting array of prototype lenses at its booth. There's the full-frame, manual focus 8-15mm F2.8 fisheye zoom, which will likely be released for E, Z, RF and L mounts, as well as the 15mm F4.5 0.5x wide-angle Macro, which will likely be available for the same mounts. Finally, there's the 35mm tilt-shift F2.8 0.5x Macro lens for Fujifilm's GFX mount.
Samyang
Much of what we saw at Samyang's booth has already been announced, such as the Remaster Slim modular lens and the APS-C AF 12mm F2 lens for Canon's RF mount. However, the company was also showing off its new 14-24mm F2.8 full-frame lens for Sony E mount and teasing some unspecified future lenses.
TTArtisan
TTArtisan's most interesting CP+ announcement wasn't a lens at all but a folding instant camera with manual controls, which you can read more about here. However, the company was also showing off an AF 23mm F1.8 lens for X mount and an AF 14mm F3.5 lens for E mount.
Viltrox
Viltrox had several new lenses at the show this year: there's a new flagship 35mm F1.2 LAB for E mount. Sony shooters will also be getting an 85mm F1.4 Pro lens, while Nikon shooters will finally be getting access to the company's existing 135mm 1.8 LAB lens next month.
The company also showed off its full-frame 50mm F2.0 Air lens, which it claims will have the "best IQ of the AIR series." It will be available in E, Z, and X mounts.
