Why a newcomer is challenging one of Sony's most interesting lenses

When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. The Thypoch's first autofocus lens is an F2.8 for full-frame. Photo: Mitchell Clark Over the past few weeks, lens maker Thypoch has been teasing the release of its first autofocus lens. But rather than entering the world of autofocus with a prime, as many of its peers have done, it's introducing the first China-designed and developed zoom for full-frame. And it's an F2.8 zoom, at that. How has the company gone from making M-mount manual-focus primes to an F2.8 zoom for full-frame? Quickly, says the company's Go-to-Market manager, Xavier Luo."The project began at the end of 2024," he tells me: "and it's taken almost a whole year to make the lens ready for large-scale manufacturing." "In China, this would be considered quite a long time," he says, when I express surprise at the short timescale. I ask him to expand on why the company decided to jump straight to zoom lenses, and why this particular speci