The Loxia 35mm is a great, contrasty, performer stopped down for landscape, and I’m a fan of that classical 35mm look.

I need a WA first, so I will start with the Loxia 21 mm (1000 new against 1100 € new for Batis 18 mm). I would far rather have two cameras one with 25 lens, and one with 85mm lens which equates to four very useful focal lengths, than a crowded bag full of primes, one camera, and a constant awkward juggling act, exposed sensors, and missing the moment. When I’m at home I have access to too many lenses (due to excess enthusiasm) so it’s when I travel that I have to think hard about kits. In my opinion, they’re almost as good in image quality overall with a much more rugged build and autofocus.In this article we want to give you a few ideas of what to consider when building your own lens kit and show you some of ours in the end.

For architecture, landscape and macro photography on the other hand you might even prefer manual focus lenses because they can be more enjoyable to use. Since I don’t do any astro photography I don’t need a fast wideangle so I decided against the heavier Loxia 2. Simply push the the Macro lens in to the Lens Clip and attach to your phone covering the Camera Lens of the phone. AF is not as good as on a native lens when it comes to tracking, but might still be good enough for your needs.and M85/2) which I am not utterly decided on keeping, need more time… The bokeh of the 50mm isn’t clearly better than the Lox, but you have a full stop and more blur, more glow also.

so important landscape images as well as environmental portrait the Voigtlander still gets a workout.

Maybe good care practices, relative to specific gear, could be added to reviews as part of the handling section. This kit includes a single lens that narrows the output angle of your Radion XR15, providing higher PAR (intensity) in a reduced total coverage area (spread). I suspect the Laowa to be a special purpose lens that is not suited as a landscape/architecture-lens and of course not for astro. Kit lens” should be a term restricted to lower end lenses of lessor quality which are often found bundled with lessor expensive cameras. Very soon, this kit will be rounded by two lenses that I will grab for special purposes: The new Tamron 2.