If I was working in nasty, dirty areas, I'd forget the cap, and use an uncoated 67mm Tiffen UV filter instead. Uncoated filters are much easier to clean, but more prone to ghosting. This lens does not focus closely. It has no macro ability. For macro, use the LEICA SUMMICRON 50mm f/2 mit near-focussing range or the LEICA MACRO-ELMAR-M 90mm f/4. If this 1,200×900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 20 × 30" (50 × 75cm). I missed focus here but I thought the shot was kind of cool with the lighting and shadows. This was taken using f0.95 and 160 ISO.

This may be due to the difficulty of making an f/0.95 lens for the small M-mount bayonet, but it may also be the case that the image circle of this lens is slightly too small. TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 M It is obvious that there are slower lenses that offer higher resolution, contrast and generally better correction of optical aberrations.So which lens is right for you? 7Artisans 35mm f1.4 vs Voigtlander 35mm f1.4 VM lens? If you use a Leica M film camera I would get the Voigtlander lens for the size, build and it being pre-calibrated. For mirrorless camera users I would recommend the 7Artisans 35mm 1.4 lens for sharper images shot wide open. Final verdict of the 7Artisans 35mm 1.4 lens? One other thing I appreciate with it is its rendering. It definitely isn’t “vintage” per se. It has contrast, pop, bokeh seems rather neutral and soft and it gives somewhat of a medium format look that I do love. This lens seems quite far away from something like the Canon “dream lens” f0.95. Leica M6, Ilford HP5 @400iso, TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 @f/0.95 Leica M6, Ilford HP5 @400iso, TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 @f/0.95 Although TTArtisan have given us the option to self-calibrate, it also seems they have given us an uncalibratable(?) lens. To its credit, it is not prone to focus shift as a consequence of aperture, but there has been some talk over at 35mmc that the TTArtisan 50 f/0.95 is actually closer to a 52mm lens, (Leica rangefinders are calibrated for 51.6mm) making it impossible to perfectly calibrate for rangefinder focusing throughout its full range. The focal plane will always shift when focusing closer than two meters and this effect will be more pronounced at wider apertures. Obviously live-view camera owners need not worry about this, but for rangefinder owners who may not have access to an LCD screen or live view, this means that when focusing closer than two meters, you can either intentionally compensate using the focus ring, or focus then do a little lean away from the subject to make up the difference. What I can tell you, there are more and more people who do not want to buy from China because we have to diversify, produce local, and do not help people who threatens world peace and democracies … So, if a lens is cheap and has good result, I prefer to use a lower one, also more expensive, but without helping the evil 😉

For portraiture it isn’t so important how flat the field is, it is more interesting to see what the sharpness is like when focused at different parts of the frame to take field curvature out of the equation. positions of crops in the frame I just received my TT 50mm/.95 and found that with the exception of the incorrect calibration my unit did not have any of the other build quality issues you mention. No scratches and no appearance of dust/debris inside the lense. I have made a short research. This is impossible for a western lens maker to be under the Leica Price for the Noctilux new versus, Japanese Manufacturer such as Cosina-Voigtlander should be capable to produce such a lens for nearly 3000~4000 US dollar. My hypothesis are about the TT lens are, they : Adding this up, it comes down to the feature set and what you may prioritize in a lens. If you are on a budget and do not mind manual focusing a lens such as the TTArtisan may come into play. So, I am not sure this lens is so good, because we have for what we pay, there we see a 50mm on a M8 which becomes a 65mm, but it is not possible to make a F.0,95 lens at this price, somewhere it must have a quality bug, … … this is the second reason I do not buy things for China, quality was never good, but it is afordable, but I never keep something, do not worry, at this price they will give you a new one, …If you want autofocus on Nikon Z, the Megadap MTZ11 autofocusing adapter has its own built-in autofocus motor. Bravo! Having a digital Leica M the calibration should have been a doddle, and this is where reality and expectation diverged. Quite considerably.

The weird circular flare coming from the sun at f/0.95 seems common in other fast Chinese lenses like the TTArtisan 50/1.4M and 7Artsians 50/1.05. When they announced its upcoming TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 lens, it made lots of noise. Can a Chinese brand realistically propose an usable alternative to the holy grail Noctilux?! Would it be even usable wide open considering its price? I decided to give it a go and see how it performs. You will find below my honest review about it after some months of use. As usual, I will (almost) only speak about real life things that matter out in the field. I don’t do test charts. TTArtisan is a Chinese lens manufacturer owned by Shenzhen Mingjiang Optical Technology Co. Ltd. It specialises in mirrorless lenses and it seems to be outsourcing the actual manufacturing of the lens to DJ-Optical, a Chinese company that also manufactures lenses for the very similarly named lens brand7Artisans, also from China. 7Artisans has appeared on the market in 2017 with a fast 50mm 1.1 lens that made a bit of a splash in the rangefinder and mirrorless photographic community with its incredibly low price and surprising performance. TTArtisan released its first lens in 2019, an M-mount 35mm 1.4. Apparently the two brands are not related at all, only sharing the outsourcing of production to DJ-Optical. I wonder why TTArtisan decided to use a brand name that matched so closely the already existing 7Artisans. This naming similarity led to a lot of confusion among us users about the relationship between the two manufacturers: a common opinion circulating on the web was that TTArtisan was the brand for higher quality releases as opposed to 7Artisans. I don’t think the guys at 7Artisans really liked that.ZoomConsultations/ Mentor– Not sure what camera or lens to buy or need help with your photography? Act today and book a 1:1 Zoom call!