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3 Lenses City Photographers Are Bound to Adore in L Mount

Brett Day
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12/11/2019
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Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN art lens product Images 2.81-40s1600

The L Mount Lenses available will make cityscape photographers grin from ear to ear.

The L mount alliance is still in its infancy, and because of this, there are limited camera bodies and lenses that feature the L Mount. However, that’s not to say the available lenses aren’t good. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. If you have jumped into the L Mount life, and you are looking for L Mount lenses suitable for landscape and cityscape photography, you’re in luck. After the break, we share three L Mount lenses that will make any landscape or cityscape photographer happier than a kid in a candy store.

Captured with the Sigma 14-24 f2.8 DG DN Art

Attach any of these lenses to a Panasonic S1, S1R, a Leica SL, or the Sigma FP, and you’ll have a setup that will help you create some truly gorgeous landscape and/or cityscape images. The lenses for these platforms may be few and far between, but the available lenses are fantastic. They are built to last, and feature excellent weather sealing and great ergonomics. As you would expect, all these L Mount lenses are capable of rendering images sharp enough to cut and will provide dreamy colors that will leave landscape and cityscape photographers picking their jaws off the ground. Check out three of our favorite L Mount lenses for landscape and cityscapes below.

Sigma 35mm F1.2 Art DG DN

L Mount lenses - Sigma 35mm f1.2

Here are the pros and cons from our full review:

Pros

  • Beautiful image quality
  • Gorgeous bokeh
  • We adore the aperture ring
  • Weather sealing
  • Sharp image quality
  • Gorgeous colors on the Panasonic S1R
  • While Face detection on Panasonic isn’t that great, AF tracking isn’t terrible with the Sigma 35mm f1.2 Art DG DN

Cons

  • On the L mount system, the autofocus is lousy and doesn’t allow you to take full advantage of the Sigma 35mm f1.2 Art DG DN
  • It’s cumbersome and even heavier on Panasonic’s L mount options
  • It’s a massive lens that goes against the whole point of mirrorless
  • Sometimes we wonder if Sigma is in competition to prove they can make the biggest prime lenses
  • A few fringing issues, but they’re rare. There should be none with a lens like this though
  • On the untextured areas, the Sigma 35mm f1.2 Art DG DN is slippery to hold

Buy now ($1,499): Adorama

Captured with the Panasonic 24-105 F4

Sigma 14-24mm F2.8 DG DN Art

L Mount lenses - Sigma 14-24 f2.8

Here are the pros and cons from our full review:

Pros

  • Weather sealed
  • Fast to focus
  • Sharp image quality: some of the best we’ve seen in a wide-angle zoom actually
  • Solid build quality

Cons

  • Sigma proves to us they still have yet to figure out how to make a small zoom lens for mirrorless cameras
  • L mount’s autofocus is very slow
  • It’s big

Buy now ($1,399): Adorama

Captured with the Sigma 35mm f1.2 DG DN Art

Panasonic Lumix S 24-105mm F4 Macro OIS

L Mount lenses - Panasonic 24-105 f4

Here are the pros and cons from our full review:

Pros

  • Image stabilization is excellent in most cases, but most effective during the daytime
  • Solid image quality – very sharp!
  • Nice bokeh for portraits
  • Very versatile
  • Probably as compact as you’re going to get for this system
  • Perhaps the best current option at this zoom range as Leica has nothing with a constant aperture, and Sigma’s lenses are clones of their DSLR options
  • Built incredibly well
  • Fairly priced

Cons

  • Big
  • Panasonic took a long time to get their S Pro system out and so we expected this lens to do something innovative, but it doesn’t

Buy now ($1,297.99): Adorama