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We've decided to present You today, our review of Sigma 120-400 mm f/4.5-5.6 APO DG OS HSM telephoto lens. It's a very interesting instrument, equipped with an optical stabilization system, HSM motor and it contains some SLD glass elements. Enjoy!

Pentax smc DA 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 AL II lens is the successor of a Pentax smc P-DA 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 AL “kit” lens. The previous “kit”, having decent optical properties, a metal mount, a fully usable manual focus ring and a distance scale was one of the better “kit lenses” on the market. We were very curious whether the new lens is better than its predecessor, so we've decided to check this and we present its full review now. Enjoy!

The Olympus ZD 50-200 mm f/2.8-3.5 SWD seems to be a very interesting lens. Officially, it has everything that the Four Thirds system advertises as its main advantages. We've decided to check how the lens would behave in our test procedure and we can present its full review now. Enjoy!

After publishing our polarizing filters test new Hoya HD filters found their way to Polish shops, and taking into account huge interest in these products, we decided to check their optical properties. What’s more, some people were complaining, and not without a reason, that we omitted the Cokin system filters. Today we present an article which is a supplement to our previous polarizing filters test. Enjoy!.

Samyang Optics Company informed about delay in production of new lens 14mm f/2.8 IF ED MC Aspherical. The final version will be available in the first quarter of 2010. Samyang take decision to partially redesign construction of the lens to improve some parameters. This decision has been taken after careful testing first pre-production prototypes and among others after reading our review of this lens.

More than two weeks ago we published sample shots taken with Samyang 14 mm f/2.8 IF ED MC Aspherical lens. Because we had an opportunity to take a closer look at this interesting lens and perform its full test we can present our review today. Enjoy!

In 2008 on PMA fair, Nikon presented a very interesting lens - Nikkor AF-S DX 16-85 mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR. It has an universal focal length range including wide angle, and it is equipped with a 2nd generation vibration reduction system (VRII), and an ultrasonic SWM motor. We've decided to take a closer look at this lens and we would like to present our opinion about it. Enjoy!

In February 2007 the Canon company presented a new lens - an EF 16-35 mm f/2.8 L II USM - along with the launch of a new EOS 1D Mk III reflex camera. We've decided to test the lens and we present its full review today. Enjoy!

The last of the ultra wide angle lenses which have appeared recently on the market, and which we haven't tested so far is Sigma 10-20 mm f/3.5 EX DC HSM. Finally we could check carefully this interesting lens and we can present our review of it. Enjoy

Pentax has undoubtedly one of the most interesting offers on the market. When we say “the most interesting” we don’t mean “the biggest” or “the most universal” but precisely the most interesting because of a wide range of prime lenses with uncharacteristic parameters. One of them is the Pentax smc P-FA 77 mm f/1.8 limited lens, which we've decided to test and now we can present the full review of it. Enjoy!

Samyang 14 mm f/2.8 IF ED MC Aspherical - new ultra-wide lens for full frame cameras was introduced two days ago. Today we had opportunity to shoot some images with this lens mounted on Nikon D3x camera. Enjoy!

Falcon 14 mm f/2.8 ED Asph. IF has just arrived to us, so we were able to take some sample shots. The pictures presented below are taken with Canon EOS 20D. We will show full frame photos as soon as possible.

Thanks to Sony Poland we have opportunity to show the gallery containing 18 sample images from the Sony Alpha DSLR-A850. The samples were shot with Sony 50 mm f/1.4 lens. All pictures were taken with noise reduction off and lowest level of sharpening.

Lenses of the 70-200 mm class with constant brightness of f/2.8 are classical equipment of professional reporters. It’s no wonder, then, that it’s quite a prestigious category and every optics producer tries to have in this class a high quality product. Today we have a pleasure to present the full review of Sigma 70-200 mm f/2.8 II EX APO DG MACRO HSM lens. Enjoy!

We had opportunity to play with final model of Leica M9 camera. Below you can find the comparison between Leica (firmware 0.922) and Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII, Nikon D3x and Sony A900 made on RAW files developed using dcraw software with zero sharpening.