Irix 11mm f/4 Blackstone Review: Is This Ultra-Wide Worth the Premium Price Tag?

Irix 11mm f/4 Blackstone Review: Is This Ultra-Wide Worth the Premium Price Tag?

There’s a question I get more than almost any other from photographers stepping up their landscape game: “What’s the widest I can go before my images start looking like a funhouse mirror?” It’s a fair concern. Ultra-wide lenses are either revelatory or a regret, and there isn’t much middle ground. When I came across this review from First Man Photography covering the Irix 11mm f/4 Blackstone, I paid close attention, because this lens sits in a price bracket that gets real consideration from shooters who aren’t ready to drop a mortgage payment on a first-party prime.