Nikon's $14,000 120-300mm with a built-in teleconverter, Viltrox's $829 35mm f/1.4, and Canon warning on 2027 prices

Viltrox AF 35mm F1.4 Pro — completes the brand's fast-prime set for Sony E and Nikon Z at $829, available now. Sixteen elements in eleven groups, eleven blades, 0.3m close focus, voice-coil autofocus, clicked/de-clicked aperture ring, Fn button, weather sealing and a 77mm thread. It is a big lens: 760g on E-mount, 780g on Z, against 524g for Sony's 35mm GM. The arithmetic is the point for anyone eyeing first-party glass — all three Viltrox Pro primes together land under $2,000, where the matching Sony trio runs about $4,700. The 50mm and 85mm Pro cost $549 and $598, so the 35mm is the expensive one of the set. DPReview

Sirui Swift 20mm F2.4 and 40mm F2.2 — are the first two lenses in a new autofocus prime line for L, Sony E and Fujifilm X, both $149 and both roughly 210g. Unusually at that price they keep real controls: a clicked aperture ring, manual focus ring, customisable Fn button and an AF/MF switch, plus stepper-motor autofocus, nine blades, 58mm filters and dust and splash resistance. This is the cheap-pancake tier you actually shop in, and it is where Viltrox's Air lenses have had it easy; Sirui is matching the price while adding the switches those lenses leave off. The 20mm uses eleven elements in nine groups and focuses to 0.2m; the L-mount version weighs 212g. DPReview

Sony RIALTO 65 — is a detachable sensor head for the VENICE 2 cinema body rather than a camera of its own: a 53.75 x 35.83mm chip, about 2.2 times full-frame area, reading out 9.6K open gate and recording 16-bit X-OCN on the body's existing cards. The head weighs about 1.5kg and can sit up to 12m away on an optional cable. Far outside hobby budgets, but it is the clearest sign yet that very large sensors are becoming a module you bolt on, and it is Sony taking direct aim at ARRI's 65mm monopoly. CineD

Sony shooters want their own 120-300mm, cheaper. Sony Alpha Rumors used the Nikon launch to poll its readers: Sony has nothing comparable, and the site asks whether it should build one. The argument is that Sony has form here, having followed Nikon's 400mm and 600mm primes with lighter, cheaper versions of its own. Worth noting if you shoot E-mount and watch the long end: this is the kind of reader pressure that tends to precede a roadmap entry rather than a product. The post's wish is a lens on the same specs but smaller, lighter and $2,000–$3,000 cheaper than Nikon's $14,000. Sony Alpha Rumors

An editor bets the FP2 is the Sigma camera that sells. Amateur Photographer argues that Sigma, a company most people file under lenses, has finally made a body with broad appeal in the FP2 — after a run of cameras, from the Quattro to the BF to the original fp, that stayed cult objects. It reads as speculation rather than a review, but it lines up with the supply problems Sigma announced on day one of pre-orders, which is the harder evidence that demand is real. The piece places the FP2 as the successor to three earlier Sigma designs: the Quattro, the BF and the fp. Amateur Photographer

“Coming after the quirky Quattro, the BF and the original 'fp', I believe the FP2 could finally break through to the masses”

Fujifilm XF 23mm f/1.4 — gets revisited by The Phoblographer, which asks whether it still makes sense in 2026 and concludes that the newer version traded rendering for video-friendly autofocus speed. The verdict points newcomers back at the original design rather than the current one. Useful if you are filling out an X-mount kit on the used market, where the first-generation copy is the cheaper of the two and now has an argument for it beyond price. The piece sets the lens alongside Fujifilm's 27mm, 14mm and 33mm as the primes photographers keep returning to. The Phoblographer

“If you're looking for the Fujifilm 23mm f1.4 lens variant with more character, then you should consider the original lens.”