A First Look At Three New Telephoto Lenses

In the past 12 months, I’ve seen more pro digital camera introductions that sport sensors with ultra-high megapixel counts—anywhere from 42 megapixels to as much as 102 megapixels, like you’ll find on the Fujifilm GFX 100—than I have in previous years. Granted, some, like the Fujifilm, are medium-format cameras. However, as a photographer, you’ll want to know that as sensor resolution increases, the lenses you use will be required to do more work to capture and resolve all those tiny, subtle details.

So it’s not surprising that there have been quite a number of new lenses introduced. I wouldn’t say it’s a giant increase from 2018, but it appears to be a slight uptick.

Over the past several months, I’ve tried a number of these different lenses, including several telephoto and telephoto zooms. For this article, I’ll focus on three. The first two are Sigma’s big 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sports 10x telephoto zoom lens for full-frame DSLRs and Sony’s 135mm F1.8 G Master prime lens for Sony full-frame mirrorless digital cameras. I’ve also tested the Hasselblad XCD 2,8/135mm, which I paired with the Hasselblad X1D-50c.

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