When I first started shooting photographs and getting into camera gear, the way of the world is that you often bought a camera and first-party lenses. The third-party stuff just wasn’t all that good in terms of performance overall. Then the third-party Japanese lenses started to become better a bit over a decade ago. The Korean products got better right after that. And after the pandemic, the Chinese lenses all become very top-tier. It made me put a whole lot of things into perspective. But most of all, I’ve realized just how much we’re all overpaying for lenses from the big Japanese companies.
