Brightin Star’s Upcoming 50mm Tri-Sight Lens

credits: Brightin Star

Brightin Star used CP+ 2026 in Yokohama to unveil a new full-frame 50mm f/2 Tri-Sight prime lens, and the headline feature is a control ring that lets you switch between three distinct rendering modes, Smooth, Prime, and Foams. Smooth introduces a soft-focus, diffused look with lower contrast, Prime delivers a more conventional, balanced rendering, and Foams pushes the bokeh toward a brighter, bubble-like style.

Like other lenses that adjust spherical aberration for creative control, changing modes does not just alter the look, it also affects focus behaviour and the effective f-stop. That is why the Tri-Sight includes separate focus distance markings for the S, P, and F modes. It is a concept similar to lenses like the Voigtländer Portrait Heliar 75mm f/1.8, though Brightin Star goes a step further with a drop-in filter slot that allows additional changes to the character of the bokeh, somewhat reminiscent of Lensbaby’s modular approach.

Optically, the lens uses seven elements in six groups and an 11-bladed aperture diaphragm. It is manual focus only, with a minimum focusing distance of 0.7 meters. The barrel includes a stepless aperture ring for smooth exposure adjustments, a built-in extending hood, and a removable focus lever. At around 460 grams and 74 millimeters long, it is fairly typical in size for a manual 50mm. The Tri-Sight will be offered in Sony E, Nikon Z, L-Mount, and Canon RF versions, though pricing and release timing have not been announced yet.