Chinese lens manufacturers have been innovating in a very saturated photo market. While you have the best lenses from the big players, smaller creators are not shying away from offering something that others aren't at the moment.
Third-party Chinese brands are a plenty. From Viltrox to Light Lens Lab, each company has offered some truly exciting lenses for photographers working in portraits, weddings, sports, wildlife, or macro photography.
Now that the tariff war between the United States and China has effectively been reduced for 90 days, photographers and manufacturers can breathe a sigh of relief. With China having to pay only 30% of tariffs to the United States, a drop from the original 145%, things seemed to have looked up for American consumers.
It's 2018 and that means that seemingly age old truths about the various brands and systems that we all know and love are coming crashing down. Canon is no longer an innovator, Fujifilm is releasing Bayer Sensor cameras in their X-Series, and Sony's E-Mount ecosystem has gotten some serious reinforcements from third-party manufacturers.