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No love for the Kamlan 15mm F/2.0

Started Feb 1, 2022 | Photos thread
FTOG Senior Member • Posts: 1,359
Re: No love for the Kamlan 15mm F/2.0

Thanks for sharing, Andre. This lens really is flying below the radar - although apparently it was already released in 2019(?!).
Quite an interesting lens, and a potential alternative to the XF 14/2.8, where most other third party lenses are wider <12mm or narrower 17mm+ and up.

Since I own the latter, I was curious to compare the two.
I mostly came across Chinese tables of specifications - and even those weren't included in many places.

Table commonly featured in Ali Express offers

I'm not quite sure about the second to last line, whether this is the number of aperture blades. If it is, the lens compares as follows

Not bad for a lens that is offered at under 200 EUR. Despite the faster max. aperture, the lens is only marginally heavier than the 14/2.8 and indeed physically marginally more compact.

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Fujifilm X-E3 Fujifilm XF 14mm F2.8 R Fujifilm XF 23mm F2 R WR Fujifilm 50mm F2 R WR Fujifilm XF 27mm F2.8 R WR +2 more
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