This behavior decreases as you close the aperture and as the depth of field increases but is still visible at F5.6. If you doing individual portraits this is irrelevant but if you do a group of 3-4 people some may not be in focus It appeared to be in focus, and the focus peaking indicators on my Z6 II would say that it was, but I often saw that the focus was off in the final image. And this wasn’t just at f2; I saw this all the way until f4 even. With every other manual focus lens I’ve used on this camera, even at f1.4, the focus peaking was accurate. Even when the depth of field was shallow, it was always accurate. If it was off, it was either because the subject had moved out of the focal plane or I did. Now at f2, I was willing to blame myself for not being steady enough to nail the focus. But when there was sufficient focal range at apertures like f4, I was stumped over why the focus would be off.

It looks and feels 95% the same as my LEICA Lenses, and only coast about 8% as much as the LEICA SUMMMILUX-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH it can replace for people who actually shoot.

Build Quality and Usability

It's all metal, with even more metal than LEICA's SUMMILUX-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH, and feels, handles and looks very much like a LEICA lens. Its silky-smooth, zero-play focus is as smooth or smoother than my LEICA lenses. You can obviously only find these lenses used these days and with the rise of mirrorless cameras and the option to adapt these lenses many of them are overpriced and overhyped now and the condition they come in after 40 years is not always great. Just a couple of months ago Fujifilm announced their own XF50mm f/1 R WR lens (You can read my thorough run-through of that lens here ). A lens which is just about as fantastic as a lens can get within the X-series system. Some people proclaimed that that lens was “the worst lens of 2020”. I laughed a bit when I read that. An opinion seemingly based on sharpness alone, I couldn’t really take that moniker seriously. I wonder if anyone else will. Finally, the lens comes with a screw-in metal lens cap. Personally, I love this. It’s another unique touch to this lens that you don’t find in many modern lens boxes.

The problem is not everyone wants to calibrate their own lens. I think TTArtisan would sell more units if they offered the lens calibrated as an option (at a higher price point). If I was TTArtisan I’d team up with a third party company to calibrate a batch of their lenses and then sell on with their added price mark-up. Seems obvious to me.(If you do it please send me a cheque in the post for the idea!). TTArtisan 50mm f0.95 portrait – stopped down slightly on Leica M240 Can find models to photograph? Le Kamlan est le champion de la quantité de flou d’arrière plan avec son ouverture de F1.1 et sa distance de mise au point de 40cm The lens measures 2.4 x 2.4" / 62 x 60 mm with an aperture range of f/1.2 -16 and weighs 11.8 oz. / 336 g, takes 52mm filters, and has 10 diaphragm blades. The Sony FE 50mm 1.8 is the cheapest of Sony’s ~50mm lenses. The AF is on the noisy side and there are also some optical compromises (corners at infinity, loCA correction, Coma correction) to be aware of. The weight is the same as this TTArtisan lens, but the latter is way smaller. A big reason this lens is nice is the crisp sharpness, none of that ghosting when wide open. This photo here was heavily cropped down to 14MP shot at f1.2 while a passenger in a car. But the lens is still sharp enough and the details still hold up.

Dustin Abbott

Cons– Noticeable field curvature, chromatic aberrations on out-of-focus high contrast edges, vignetting wide open, noticeable distortion, only 100-degree focus throw. To start, for an f1.2 the focus throw at 100 degrees isn’t enough. The focus ends up being way too sensitive when trying to dial in focus at f1.2 at a far distance. This cap is marvelous if you don't use a filter, but may not fit or stay on if you do use a filter. Manual focus is fantastic. It's silky-smooth and has no play. The ring glides smoothly with two fingers, or with just a fingertip with the focus tab — just like my LEICA Lenses!

This TTArtisan 50mm f/1.4 ASPH has a LEICA M mount. Focus and metering work perfectly on every LEICA M camera, from 1954's LEICA M3 through today's newest LEICA M-A, LEICA MP, LEICA M10 Monochrom, LEICA M10-P and LEICA M10-R. The small number of lens elements and the absence of aspherical elements means we don’t see record breaking sharpness figures at the maximum aperture in the corners or perfectly corrected Coma. But is it really needed for a lens like this? I don’t think so. At f/2.0 we see a general softness caused by spherical aberration all over the frame which clears up on stopping down to f/2.8. The lines running through the circles are due to the glass I used as a mirror to take these pictures and are not a feature of the lens. color cast In practical terms all of these lenses is sharp in the center where we need it, at every aperture. The LEICA SUMMMILUX-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH and this lens are particularly sharp in the center at f/1.4. however all these f/1.4 lenses become softer towards the sides in the lab at f/1.4. Much of this can be caused by field curvature.

Comments

The performance here reminds me a lot of the 7Artisans 28mm 1.4, which is good news. infinity (24mp Leica M10) The TTArtisan 50mm 1.4 is not one of those. Performance on the Leica M10 and Sony A7rII is very similar, so again from f/4.0 onwards you get very even across frame performance. Close to the minimum focus distance bokeh is smooth (this is true for most lenses), and as we have already seen in the sharpness close section contrast and resolution are also good at these distances. Leica M10 | TTArtisan 50mm 1.4 | f/1.4 Leica M10 | TTArtisan 50mm 1.4 | f/1.4 The Zeiss Loxia 50mm 2.0 was the first manual focus 50mm lens for E-mount cameras. In some areas it shows a better performance, but I find it a bit overpriced these days. If you want to spend that much money on a manual focus 50mm f/2.0 lens better have a look at the Voigtländer 50mm 2.0 Apo-Lanthar E. It’s metal construction, which a lot of people get excited about, no mention of the type of metal used.