Camera Lens Reviews

Lightweight and bright, Tamron's superzoom lens for Sony E-mount cameras is a great choice for hiking, camping, and travel — even if it's not the sharpest.

Released in 2015, Sigma's 20mm F1.4 Art faces new competition. With its combination of wide focal length and bright aperture, it remains the wide-angle to beat.

The Nikon Nikkor Z 24mm f/1.8 S is the widest prime lens for Nikon's mirrorless series. Paired with a wide aperture, it's just as sharp and bright as the other Z-series primes we've tested, making it a versatile option for both landscape and portrait photography.

Built specifically for mirrorless cameras and housed in a smaller, lighter body, this is the new fast ultra-wide to beat. With equal performance and nearly the same price as the original, Sigma's second 14-24mm F2.8 Art lens is a winner.

The Cybertruck of lenses, the Sigma 35mm F1.2 is about showing off as much as it is class-leading performance. It's bulky and heavy, but you won't find a better 35mm. Three aspherical elements, 11 aperture blades, and a weather-sealed build help this lens stand above the rest.

Sigma's 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM is a wide-aperture lens that delivers sharp image resolution. But a high price tag and short zoom makes it a niche lens that's not designed for all.

Sigma’s new 85mm Art is a solid portrait lens alternative to pricier name brand options, delivering great image quality, wide aperture, and minimal chromatic aberration.

Sigma’s flagship super-telephoto zoom is made with advanced enthusiasts and working photographers in mind, offering an extensive range without sacrificing performance, ruggedness, or quality.

With a fast aperture, solid build quality, and incredible performance, Sigma has another winner on its hands in the 135mm F1.8 Art lens.

Lensbaby’s Velvet 85 is a portrait lens without equal, combining a unique look with quality construction at a decent price.

Our Oowa Pro Lens Kit review uncovers a superb iPhone add-on lens system that's ruined by an ill-fititng case.

We test a kit lens you actually want in our Nikon 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR review.

Find out why this versatile lens offers great value in our Fujifilm XF 16mm F1.4 R WR review.

It's rare, special, and makes great bokeh, but our Fujifilm XF 56mm F1.2 R APD review reveals that special isn't always better.

Unlike standard lenses, the Lensbaby Sweet 80 is a different way to separate your subject from the background.

The Olympus M.Zuiko 17mm F1.2 Pro is the best wide-angle Micro Four Thirds lens you can buy.

The Olympus 25mm F1.2 Pro is a technically excellent lens that goes beyond objective image quality to become something special.

At $1,200, the Olympus M.Zuiko 45mm F1.2 Pro might be expensive, but the premium price is matched by excellent performance. This lens sets a new standard for Micro Four Thirds.

At just $449, the Sigma 16mm F1.4 Contemporary is a fast, wide-angle lens for mirrorless cameras that won’t break the bank.

Using a secondary aperture iris, the Burnside 35 lets you dial in a variable amount of vignetting independently of the main aperture. It’s like Instagram’s vignette slider for people who prefer to get it right in-camera.

After a decade of standing uncontested, Nikon’s venerable 14-24mm f/2.8 finally has some very strong competition in the form of the Sigma 14-24mm F2.8 Art lens. It’s a lens for a small niche, but it could be the new ultra-wide zoom to beat.

With no shortage of competition, it’s difficult for a 24-70mm f/2.8 lens to stand out these days. But thanks to a low price and optical image stabilization, the Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 Art offers exceptional value to enthusiasts and professionals while filling the role of a durable workhorse lens.

The Lensbaby Sol 45 is a gateway drug into the world of creatively blurred, expressive photos that make pixel peepers’ brains hurt. It brings Lensbaby’s telltale effect, the “sweet spot” of focus, to a new low price and compact size. Read our review to see if purposefully blurred photos are worth $200.

The Sigma 105mm F1.4 DG HSM Art is the best portrait lens we have used. While its size and weight takes getting used to, you get superb images in return for the effort.

Combining both a fast f/1.4 aperture and optical image stabilization, the Canon EF 85mm f/1.4L IS USM rejects the choice between speed and stability, finally delivering a prime lens that gives photographers the best of both worlds. The $1,600 prime is worthy of joining any enthusiast or pro’s kit.

Nikon made big promises with the new Z mount lenses, but now that they are finally here, did Nikon overpromise? The Nikkor Z 35mm f/1.8 S doesn’t use the Z mount to slim down, but it does capture im-pressive images with sharp centers, smooth bokeh and impressively little distortion. One performance factor, however, may be lacking.