Don't Sleep on Sirui!

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Sirui’s second lens in the Aurora series is the new 35mm f/1.4. Chris Niccolls was very impressed with the sharpness and value of the 85mm f/1.4 Aurora, but how does this new lens compare? He went somewhere cold and bleak to find out.

Read the full review: https://petapixel.com/2026/01/10/siru...

Buy the Sirui 35mm f/1.4: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...

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0:00 - Intro
1:14 - Sample Photos
2:22 - Mounts
2:53 - Controls and Design
3:46 - Depth of Field
4:16 - Bokeh
4:58 - Close-Up
5:26 - Autofocus
6:12 - Chromatic Aberrations
6:56 - Sharpness
7:46 - Flare
8:27 - Should You Buy It?