Sony 70-200mm GMII Review at ePhotozine: “powerful offering “

Sony 70-200mm GM II Lens at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama. BuyDig. FocusCamera. FotoKoch DE, Calumet DE, WexUK, ParkUK.

ePhotozine published the full review and concluded:

As cameras have become more and more demanding, needing sharper and sharper optics, so lenses have become better and better. There can be no better example than this new Sony lens – faster, lighter, more compact and with higher performance than what was already a really excellent lens. If we add to that the very nature of the 70-200mm lens, so very versatile, covering portraits, architecture, flower close-ups, close up sports, landscape, animals and many other possibilities all in an easy to use package, we have a powerful offering indeed.
A great lens at a par for the course price and a comfortable ‘Editor’s Choice’.

Triple Brigthin Star review: 50mm F0.95, 55mm F1.8 and 23mm F5.6

Brigthtin Star seems to be a rebranded version of the Mitakon lenses. You can find these lenses on Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon UK.

Marc Alhadeff from SonyAlphaBlog reviewed three of them:

Brightin Star 50mm F0.95:

The Brightin Star 50mm F0.95 (389$) is a typical F0.95 lens the provide super smooth bokeh, decent sharpness wide open and excellent as of F4 with a very good color, rendition and very good build quality
The Brightin Star provides very poetic and nice pictures for portraits or for object details with lot of background blur
The key difference with the other F0.95 lenses is the price: it is 2 times cheaper that other F0.95 while providing very similar performance !
The lens has some weaknesses : not circular bokeh balls with aperture closed down , more vignetting and situation than competition and lower resistance to flare
But for 389$ it is a bargain

Brightin Star 55mm F1.8:

The Brightin Star 55mm F1.8 (116$) provide globally very good portraits with very good bokeh balls, good background blur, very good color rendition. Sharpness could be a bit better wide open but for 116$ is does as good as the Sony 50mm F1.8 while having a better rendering for portraits

Brigthin Star 23mm F5.6:

The Brightin Star 23mm f5.6 (100$) is a very nice , light and compact pancake lens. Sharpness is very good to excellent on most of the fields but with only average corners. The color Rendition is very good
The main drawback is the bad resistance to flare , the average corners , the slow aperture of F5.6 (if you like small depth of field effect) and of course no AF

TTArtisan 90mm f/1.25 lens review by Marc Alhadeff: “delivers nice portraits with a dreamy atmosphere”

This new lens can be preordered at BHphoto and at TTartisan (worldwide shipment).

Marc from SonyAlphablog tested the lens and concluded:

The TTArtisan delivers nice portraits with a dreamy atmosphere and better results than a lens like Samyang MF 85mm F1.4 MK2, however its heavy weight and issue of focus shift makes it difficult to recommend vs eg a Samyang 85mm F1.4 AF at same price which is much sharper and has AF, unless you want to exclusively shoot at F1.25 with this lens

Niveau Wiggle Trioscopic 3D lens announced

This new Niveau Wiggle Trioscopic 3D lens has been launched on Kickstarter. And Marc from SonyAlphaBlog tested it. He concluded:

The Niveau Wiggle 3D Trioscopic lens (100$) is a refreshing lens , it is very fun to use and will allow to create original gif to illustrate a product, your website or for your social network
For a 3D printed lens it is well built and fully functional with a aperture and focusing ring. The lens fit well on The Sony body without any scrap or risk to damage your camera
The sharpness and color rendition is good when you close down a bit the aperture , but a little bit slowly wide open
You will need to learn the technique to post process them and for the first one it could take you 15min per photo but with some practice you get this down to 4-5 minutes
If you want to experiment something different , worth to try it and get fun