The lens will be available soon on this page: comingsoon.higizmos.com/greatjoy

Matti Sulanto posted the first ever review of the new lens:

You can now preorder the new Nisi 15mm FE lens at BHphoto and Adorama.

Dustin Abbott reviewed the NiSi 15mm FE lens which by coincidence today has a $90 discount at BHphoto.

This week ProGRade announced the new 160GB CFexpress Type A cards you can preorder now at BHphoto (click here) and Adorama (click here).

PetaPixel tested the new card and it performs exactly the same as the much more expensive Sony cards. So go ahead and buy them :)

This is Marc Galers list of the best lenses you can buy…

They are both good :)

As you know since last week you can preorder the world’s fastest 35mm f/0,95 lens at Venuslens.net (worldwide shipment). First 100 purchases in the webstore will get a free focus gear belt.

Phillip Reeve tested the new lens and concluded:

So far f/0.95 fullframe lenses have been special purpose lenses for shallow depth of field photography with plenty of compromises, too many compromises for myself to consider using them on an everyday basis.

For the Laowa 35mm 0.95 this is not the case and this is what really makes it stand out among the other f/0.95 lenses. While it is being surpassed in several categories (e.g. sharpness, flare resistance, coma and CA correction) by slower and often more expensive lenses, the package as a whole ended up being a fully usable lens that can be used for a wide variety of applications and not just shallow depth of field portraiture.
It therefore behaves similar to the Voigtlander f/1.2 lenses while being more than half a stop faster – quite the achievement.

I am sounding like a broken record by now, but it is really time for Laowa to add electronic contacts to their E-mount lenses though, especially considering not only Samyang but also Yongnuo and Viltrox manage to do that.

This 35mm 0.95 is Laowa’s first attempt at designing a fast portrait lens with an “ordinary” focal length where there is a lot of competition in the market already. Before using the lens I was afraid making it f/0.95 might have been too ambitious, but this is not the case at all. If I was to pick a fast manual 35mm lens for an E-mount camera today this would clearly be it.

And Dustin Abbott also posted his full review:

Lens at BHphoto and Venuslens.net (worldwide shipment).

Here is Marc Alhadeffs take on this lens:

Build quality is top notch , weight (580g) & price (500$) are quite high for an APSC lens

The sharpness is already good wide open with a good contrast. Corners are weaker than the centre as expected but their behavior is but much better than on the 7 Artisans 35mm F0.95 or the Mitakon 35mm F0.95 Mark II, which make the Laowa more versatile than its alternatives

The Laowa 33mm F0.95 will be excellent for portraits and objects details, with a beautiful rendering for skin tones, good sharpness wide open and creamy background blur, nice bokeh balls; at F2.8 the lens is tack sharp.

It will be also ideal for street photography when you want to isolate your subject and have the rest of the street in the blur (very nice 3D effect). For photography in dark situation it’s F0.95 will help not to increase too much ISO, but pay attention to direct light sources has the resistance to flare at f0.95 is weak with big halo effect.

Alternatives

• The 7 Artisans 35mm F0.95 : 250$ is a budget lens providing similar sharpness in the centre, same creamy background blur and excellent color rendition at half the price and a much lesser weight. But this lens exhibit much more color fringing at F0.95 and has much weaker corners
• The Mitakon 35mm F0.95 Mark II (600$) is not a bad lens : it has similar sharpness in the centre and nice background blur, but its show its age with weak corners, some color shift and much less good color rendition

Globally the Laowa is the best 33-35mm F0.95 for Sony APSC camera