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7Artisans 9mm F5.6 £459/$479

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The 7Artisans 9mm F5.6 is a full-frame compatible lens that comes in Canon RF, Leica L, Nikon Z and Sony E mount options. For a rectilinear lens, it has an astonishingly wide field of view – pretty much as wide as it gets without going curvilinear or ‘fisheye’. Speaking of which, 7Artisans also offers a capable 10mm F2.8 Fisheye and some other desirable lenses, including the super-fast 50mm F1.05. Like those two, the 9mm F5.6 is a fully manual lens with no built-in electronics, but that isn’t a drawback, as we’ll see later.

Key features

There are 132º degrees of key feature packed into this diminutive lens. Put your eye to the camera’s viewfinder and it gives an instant wow factor – in

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