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The Sony Full-Frame Planar T FE 50mm F/1.4 ZA Prime Lens attached to an A7R Mark II camera body. Stan Horaczek Sony seems to be on a bit of a new 50mm lens kick lately. Not long ago we met the new ...

The Viltrox AF 50mm f/2 Air proves that a lightweight, affordable prime can still deliver genuinely impressive image quality.

If you’re new to the world of photography, the idea of a lens that doesn’t zoom might seem a bit odd. Even our phones have zoom lenses on them now, or a least a version of zoom thanks to multiple ...

Sony already makes a handful of 50mm lenses for its full-frame mirrorless cameras, including the very impressive FE 50mm f/1.2 GM and Sony Planar T* FE 50mm f/1.4 ZA lenses. And when you factor in ...

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Last year Leica announced the SL System, a full-frame mirrorless camera that was well received by press and photographers alike, and with the promise of bringing some serious glass to the series.

Sony bucks the recent trend of oversized, bulky prime lenses with its the FE 50mm F1.2 GM, a lens that's notably brighter than an F1.4, but without as much heft. Images, and the devices that capture ...

If you’ve ever turned to a photography forum to ask, “What’s the first lens I should buy?” You’ve probably been steered to a “nifty fifty,” a 50mm lens with a fast aperture (typically around F2.8 or ...

Craig Marshall continues his series on classic Contax stills lenses that make for great video on modern cameras. This time it's the turn of the Zeiss ‘Contax’ Planar 50mm f/1.7. Weekends at RedShark ...