Everybody loves a 35mm prime, right? It’s certainly one of my favorite types of lenses for walkabout, travel, and street photography, delivering a natural but moderately wide perspective with a full-frame camera. I feel that this Meike strikes a good balance between a fairly fast but not overly rapid f/1.8 aperture rating, enabling a pretty compact size and light weight. On the face of it, the lens also looks excellent value for money.
So who is Meike anyway? The company is based in Hong Kong, currently comprising 30 technicians and 200 production personnel, running multiple production lines, a dust-free workshop, and a test lab for lens manufacture, headed with the slogan ‘realize your vision’. Like other Chinese lens manufacturers, the overall aim is to deliver quality goods at bargain prices. As such, the full-frame compatible Meike 35mm f/1.8 Pro AF lens that I’m reviewing here aims to be one of the best lenses for Nikon Z cameras and one of the best lenses for Sony E-mount cameras. Well, if not the outright best, then at least one of the best-value options.
