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7Artisans 25mm f1.8 Review & Sample Photos

  • Alik Griffin
  • February 5, 2026
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The 7Artisans 25mm f1.8 is a small and fast lens designed and manufactured in China for mirrorless cameras. It's built with an all-metal lens barrel with poor quality control and construction. Optically the lens is tuned for a somewhat old school, retro image quality where corner and edge sharpness is sacrificed at the cost of microcontrast and color. All around this little lens is kind of a mess and I'm struggling to decide if it's even worth it.
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Fujifilm 16mm f1.4 Review & Sample Photos

  • Alik Griffin
  • April 24, 2025
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All around the Fujifilm 16mm f1.4 is a phenomenal lens with very few negative characteristics other than maybe its size and weight. I chalk it up as one of the best Fujifilm lenses in terms of overall design and tuning of characteristics and probably the best ultra wide prime ever made.
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Fujifilm 60mm f2.4 Macro Review & Sample Photos

  • Alik Griffin
  • July 24, 2024
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The Fujinon 60mm f2.4 is a short telephoto macro lens for the Fujifilm X-Mount APS-C mirrorless camera system.  This lens features a fast f2.4 aperture with 9 aperture blades and an equivalent field of view of 90mm, making it great for portrait photography as well as product photography . The excellent corner to corner sharpness also means landscape photographers will find great use for it as well. I consider the Fujifilm 60mm a short telephoto jack-of-all-trades lens, because it can do just about anything with no serious negative characteristics.
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Kamlan 50mm f1.1 Review & Sample Photos

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  • February 5, 2026
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The KamLan 50mm f1.1 lens is a super fast manual focus lens by Sainsonic for mirrorless cameras. It's designed to be a very inexpensive specialty lens with extremely shallow depth of field with buttery smooth bokeh. This is achieved by a f1.1 aperture with 12 circular aperture blades. Its simple design with a low element count makes this lens shoot and behave more like a retro lens with extreme characteristics.
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Fujifilm 90mm f2 | Lifestyle Photography

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  • April 22, 2024
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I finally decided to buy the exquisite Fujifilm 90mm f2 and have been testing it thoroughly around town and at the pumpkin patch with the kids. I have to say, this thing is amazing and is one of Fujifilms best lenses in my opinion. Everything about it is just incredible.
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Fujifilm 14mm f2.8 Review & Sample Photos

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  • April 11, 2025
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The Fujinon 14mm f2.8 is one of Fujifilms oldest (of the modern) lenses, it's slow and noisy with a stepping motor focus system, but optics are everything and this 14mm captures some incredible images for both landscape photographers or those just looking to have a little fun with an ultra-wide.
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Helios 44-2 58mm f2 Review | A King Of Character

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  • February 16, 2026
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If you're looking to get started collecting old vintage lenses from the 80's and 90's, then the Helios 44 series is a great place to start. They are known for their beautiful large swirling bubble bokeh. There are several variations of this lens all with different character. They are all similar and different but built with the same goal - to copy the Zeiss Biotar.
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Industar 50mm f3.5 Review | A Fun One

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  • April 24, 2025
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One of the more interesting vintage lenses is the Russian made M42 mount Industar 50mm f3.5 pancake lens. The Industar has won lots of praise over the decades and people really seem to love it. So is the lens good?
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The Sony 50mm f1.8 – Wow!

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  • February 13, 2026
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There has been something I think all Sony shooters have been waiting a long time for and it's not more megapixels.

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Fujifilm 35mm f2.0 – Review & Sample Photos

  • Alik Griffin
  • March 9, 2025
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The Fujifilm 35mm f2 R WR lens is one of those lenses that you can just fall in love with almost immediately. It's small, fairly inexpensive and produces some really nice image quality. But more than that, it's got character. Although the Fujinon 35mm f2 is by no means perfect, the lens is priced in such a way that many of its flaws can be forgiven. It's also incredibly durable, making this lens my first choice for anyone looking to jump into some primes.
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