There are ‘bright’ f/1.4 and f/1.2 lenses aplenty, but even faster lenses are comparatively thin on the ground – so the Brightin Star 50mm f/0.95 put another offering on the table.

these two things together make the lens rather appealing for portraiture. If we want beautifully crisp images edge to edge, then we stop down to f/2 and beyond and then it hardly matters what ...

Best overall The best lens for astrophotography overall The Sigma 14mm f/1.4 DG DN Art lens is great for astrophotography thanks to its speedy autofocusing, but it can handle hybrid shooting as well.

Both lenses offer popular focal lengths with fast f/1.4 apertures, ideal for working in low light and for creating shallow depth of field portraits – I personally relied on a 35mm f/1.4 Sigma ...

If it is sharpness we seek, then this is our lens. Centrally, sharpness is excellent from f/1.4 right through to f/11, and still very good at f/16. The edges are exactly the same, excellent from f ...