Tag: wide-angle lenses

Discontinued Leica WATE: Farewell to a unique lens

Leica has stopped selling the Wide-Angle Tri-Elmar-M 16-18-21 aka WATE. It was and is a unique lens which can help produce extraordinary pictures…

Street Photography: A seven-step plan for overcoming range anxiety

Keith shares his strategy for tackling an aversion to photographing complete strangers. It's a seven-step plan for overcoming street photography 'range anxiety'.

Prioritising Weight over Speed: Is this the new fashion in lens design?

More zoom lenses are being introduced which are lightweight but possess slow minimum apertures. Are we really sacrificing anything when buying such a lens? Keith puts one such lens, the Lumix 20-60mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom through its paces.

Photographing the Solar System’s Most Bizarre Moon

If you are into ultra-wide-angle photography, volcanology, or astronomy, this story is for you. The spacecraft Juno, NASA’s mission...

Voigtländer 15mm Super-wide Heliar aspherical f/4.5 VM: Leaving the Leica-M comfort zone with an ultra-wide lens

Never one to stick to the conventional, Dirk throws caution to the wind and experiments with an ultra-wide-angle lens on his Leica M10

The M Files (21): Zeiss Ikon SW, a very unusual camera for Leica M-Mount

Our series about non-Leica M-Mount cameras, lenses and accessories continues with an unusual camera. In Part 21, Jörg-Peter takes on the Zeiss Ikon SW. Its striking feature is… the absence of a viewfinder.

New Leica L-Mount lenses launched: APO-Summicron 21 and a 14-24 zoom are available starting now

New Leica L-Mount lenses in October 2023: A 21mm prime that is supposed to be world class, and a 14-24 that might remind users of a very similar lens from another manufacturer.

Sigma 10-18mm DC DN Contemporary APS-C Lens for Leica L-Mount: Small lens, big personality

Sigma's new 10-18mm L-Mount lens for APS-C cameras demonstrates the company's commitment to the crop-sensor L-Mount market, despite the absence of suitable cameras following Leica's discontinuation of the TL2 and CL models...

Sigma launches the world’s first 14mm f/1.4 lens for mirrorless cameras

Introduced today, the Sigma 14mm F1.4 DG DN | Art is the world's first 14mm f1.4 lens for mirrorless cameras. It is designed for wide-angle applications such astrophotography, landscapes, weddings and interiors...