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Lens Test: Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM AF

Yat Lee Attaches Incredible Old Lenses To A Phase One IQ180 Medium Format Digital Back

Editor’s Choice 2007: SLR Lenses

100-Year Old Lens Hacked Onto Canon 5D Mark II

New Gear: Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE Prime Lens

Kipon To Sell Leica M-Mount Adapter For Fujifilm X-Pro1

Nikon ED 300mm F/2 Hits eBay, Bidding Starts at $15,000

New Gear: Three New SLR Magic Toy Lenses

Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm f/3.5-6.3 lens will be the highest magnification available on an ILC mirrorless system

New Gear: Lensbaby Edge 80 Optic

The NIKKOR Z 24-70mm F/2.8 S is reinvented for Nikon’s Z series camera

The Lomogon 2.5/32mm Art Lens offers moody analog aesthetics for digital cameras

This massive fisheye lens weighs more than 25 pounds and can see behind itself

Editor’s Choice 2006: Camera Lenses

New Gear: Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD

New Gear: Sony 500mm F/4 G Lens

New Gear: the Super Triplet Perar 28mm f/4 Is The Smallest M-Mount Lens Ever

New Gear: Canon EF 24-70 F/2.8L II USM and Two Wide-Angle Primes With IS

A classic reportage lens for the Leica SL system

New Gear: Ricoh GXR A16 24-85mm f/3.5-5.5 16MP Lens/Sensor Combo

New Gear: Kenko 400mm f/8 For Every Mount Imaginable

New Gear: 11-16mm Tokina AT-X 116 Pro DX II

Carl Zeiss to Make Lenses for Micro Four Thirds

Canon EF 50mm f/1.0L USM

Pentax Announces 25mm f/4 lens for 645D Medium Format System

Lens Rentals found a dead fly trapped inside a zoom lens and it barely affected its image quality

Samsung Announces 2011 NX Lens Update

Nikon Offering Limited Edition f/1.4 Prime Lens Set at a Discount Price

New Gear: Canon EF to Sony NEX Smart Adapter

Gregory Simpson Makes His Own Leica M9 Pinhole Lenses Out Of Gaffer’s Tape

New Gear: Lensbaby Sweet 35 Offers 12 Blade Aperture

The Canon RF 85mm F1.2 L portrait lens is the first RF lens with BR optics

Samyang Finalizes its Modified 35mm f/1.4 AS UMC Lens

New Gear: Sigma Announces Digital Neo Lens Line for ILC’s

New Gear: Sigma 180mm F/2.8 APO Macro EX DG OS HSM

Breakthroughs: Liquid Lens for Sharper Pix

New Lens: Nikon 85mm f/1.8G Prime

Tamron’s new SP 35mm F/1.4 Di USD prime lens commemorates 40 years of SP series lenses

Sony announces FE 600mm F4 GM OSS and the FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 OSS super-telephoto lenses

Sony’s new FE 35mm F1.8 is a super fast and super light prime lens

Lensbaby Composer Pro Brings Smoother Swiveling, More Accurate Focusing

Fujifilm’s new GF 50mm F3.5 R LM WR is its most compact medium format lens

Crack Open a $6,000 Case of Carl Zeiss Prime SLR Lenses

Nikon Produces 60 Millionth Nikkor Lens

Lensbaby adds Canon RF and Nikon Z mount options to a number of lenses

Nikon releases Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.8 S for Z series mirrorless cameras

New Gear: Olympus Weather Sealed ED 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3

The Wanderlust Pinwide: A Pinhole Cap For Micro Four Thirds Cameras

New Gear: Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 Non-Stabilized Lens for Sony and Pentax

Nikon 50mm f/1.8G Lens Coming in July for $217

Nikon’s Nikkor Z 24mm F1.8 lens for mirrorless full-frame Z cameras is coming this fall
The Little Lens That Could

The NeinGrenze 5000T Puts Tiltshift In Your Pocket

Video: Just How Wide Is Canon’s EF 8-15mm f/4 Fisheye Zoom Lens?

The 58mm F0.95 Noct is Nikon’s fastest lens ever

Canon Announces Delayed Release Dates, Pricing for Upcoming Lenses

Tokina’s new ATX-i 11-16mm F2.8 CF super-wide lens gets an update

Noktor Promises f/0.95 Lenses For Sony E-mount

Canon announces two new RF mount lens, the 85mm f/1.2 and the 70-200mm f/2.8

Panasonic Announces Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4 ASPH Lens

Rare Nikon 2000mm F/11 Lens Fetches $95,000 At Charity Auction

Tokina has a redesigned ATX-i 100mm F2.8 1:1 Macro lens on the way in time for the holidays
