LAOWA ARGUS 35MM F/0.95 FFII

Beautiful bokeh and incredible depth of field

- Hannah Rooke

www.ukdigital.co.uk £899/$899

Laowa’s 35mm f/0.95 is the fastest-available 35mm lens for full-frame cameras. It’s not the cheapest or the lightest lens on the market, but it certainly produces images you’ll want to share; and while it might not have autofocus, its slick design and smooth focusing could make you fall in love with manual focus again.

The selling point of this lens is its incredibly wide f/0.95 aperture, which creates images in which the out-offocus areas are beautifully smooth and the in-focus areas are pin-sharp. The lens doesn’t have any electronics, so you can’t change aperture settings using the camera; instead, there’s an aperture wheel on the lens that enables you to manually select the aperture.