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KamLan 28mm F1.4

APS-C Lens

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Product Overview

KamLan 28mm F1.4 is a large-aperture manual-focus normal prime lens for Canon EF-M-mount, Fujifilm X-mount, Micro Four Thirds-mount, and Sony E-mount. It covers the APS-C image circle. Introduced by KamLan in 2018, it has 8 elements in 7 groups.
Manual focus may be limiting to some, but purists will find it much more engaging. There are also fewer things to go wrong on the long run.
A normal prime lens, the KamLan 28mm F1.4 has the potential to be one of the most used and ultimately versatile option in a photographer's bag. Usually the easiest to design and to QC, it is a great option for landscape and street photography. Its bright maximum aperture also helps night and portrait works.

Ratings

What we found

Neofiliac score 59%
Pros
  • Bright maximum aperture
  • Smooth rendering
  • Rather sharp for what it is
Cons
  • Not the highest build grade

What external reviewers found

External score 71%
Pros
  • Very nice bokeh with good color rendering
Cons
  • Distorsion is visible but not too important and can be easily corrected manually in Lightroom

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External Reviews

sonyalpha[1]

Reviewer score 71% (normalized by Neofiliac)
Reviewers from sonyalpha have found:
Kamlan 28mm F1.4 for Sony APSC-C bodies is the new lens from Sainsonic/Machang Optics, a relatively new Chinese optics company. The lens is proposed to be financed on Kickstarter here, for a discount price of 149$ instead of 200 $ ici This is the 3rd lens I am reviewing from Sainsonic, and I must say they become better and better.
Pros
  • Good sharpness wide open that will be perfectly ok for portraits of object details, closing it down and it becomes excellent
  • Very nice bokeh with good color rendering
Cons
  • Distorsion is visible but not too important and can be easily corrected manually in Lightroom
  • Flare resistance seems good but I had a lot of cloud when I tested the lens Chromatic aberrations can sometimes be strongly present but in general are quite low

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References

  1. ^ Kamlan 28mm F1.4 (APS-C). [sonyalpha].

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