Sony's $80,000 RIALTO 65 65mm head, Viltrox's $829 35mm f/1.4 Pro, and Nikon's profit upgrade with a camera-sales cut

DJ-Optical Ultra slim 35mm f/3.5 MC — a full-frame manual prime so shallow it works as a body cap: the silver metal barrel protrudes about 15 mm and the whole lens weighs around 140 g. Stocky Focus Kobo put it on sale in Japan on 30 October at ¥110,000, the brand's second lens after the NyctaLux 50mm f/1.0. Pancakes keep getting thinner, and this is the extreme end of that trend — worth knowing about if you like the idea of a camera that disappears into a coat pocket. Eight elements in five groups including one ED, stepless f/3.5–16 aperture, 25.5 mm filter thread, rangefinder coupling down to 0.7 m and a 0.5 m close focus you have to use live view for. Digital Camera Watch

Sirui Swift AF 20mm f/2.4 and 40mm f/2.2 — two compact autofocus primes from Sirui's budget Swift line, now listed for preorder on Amazon and at Sirui's own store. Fuji Rumors posted the links alongside its roundup of third-party autofocus glass for Fujifilm X. Sirui has been pushing into the cheap-autofocus-prime space that Viltrox and TTArtisan built, so these are the sort of lenses that quietly change what a second body costs to kit out. The post is order links only — no pricing or optical specifications were given with it. Fuji Rumors

Meike AF 58mm F1.2 Mix black&white — a new colourway of Meike's fast autofocus 58mm, sold only in the Fujifilm X mount version. The lens itself launched in September in black and in silver; this is the same optic in a black-and-white trim. On APS-C a 58mm f/1.2 is an unusually fast short-portrait length for the money, and it is the kind of third-party option that keeps X-mount shooters from paying Fujifilm prices for every focal length. The black&white edition is exclusive to the X mount version; the black and silver finishes came first, back in September. Fuji Rumors

Viltrox AF 35mm f/1.4 Pro — $829 for Sony E or Nikon Z, with a metal body, weather sealing, a USB-C port in the mount and a de-clickable aperture ring. Christopher Frost, summarised by Fstoppers, found it very good in the centre wide open and razor sharp by f/2 on a 61MP a7CR — but noticeably weaker in that camera's APS-C crop mode. This is the lens that moves Viltrox out of the bargain bracket and into a straight fight with Sigma's Art, so the caveats matter before you order one. It weighs 780 g on Sony E and 830 g on Nikon Z, autofocus is only average for single-shot speed, and the corners stay dark even at f/2.8 — leave vignetting correction on. Fstoppers

NIKKOR Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S — Jan Wegener took Nikon's new built-in-teleconverter zoom into Australian rainforest on a Z8, and Fstoppers' write-up makes the case plainly: the extra stop kept him at ISO 3,200–6,400 where he would usually be pushed to 6,400–12,800 or beyond. With the external TC-2.0x fitted it becomes a 240–600mm f/5.6 that still held detail wide open. It is the clearest explanation going of what a fast telephoto actually buys, which is a useful yardstick even if your telephoto budget is a tenth of this. At 2.75 kg it is only about 200 g lighter than the 400mm f/2.8, and stacking the built-in 1.4x on the external 2x reaches 840mm at a visible cost to image quality. Fstoppers

Sony FE 600mm F6.3 GM OSS — The Phoblographer calls this the lightest telephoto prime it has tested, and then tells most readers to walk away: the recommendation is limited to wildlife or sports photographers who are already used to carrying two bodies, and enthusiasts are told to skip it outright. Weight-saving super-teles are being marketed hard at weekend wildlife shooters right now, and this is a reviewer saying that light does not automatically mean suitable. The verdict hinges on the two-body workflow: an f/6.3 prime with no zoom range leaves you swapping cameras rather than lenses. The Phoblographer

Sigma 20-60mm F2.8-4 DG Contemporary — Mobile01's review, summarised by Japanese site Toru Nara, lands on a simple verdict: if compactness and f/2.8 at the wide end are what you want, this is the one. Shot on a 33MP a7 V, 20mm is usable from f/2.8 through f/11, while the corners at 60mm f/4 go a little soft and wide-open vignetting needs f/4 to clear up. It is the travel-zoom argument in miniature — a wider-than-usual 20mm start in exchange for giving up the 70mm end, at a weight you will actually carry on a weekend walk. 375 g in E mount, 67 mm filters, 0.43x maximum magnification at 35mm, and a Japanese street price of ¥132,000. asobinet