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This is an impeccably well made lens. It's all metal and very dense. It's a breath of fresh air compared to the crappy plastic that too many people accept today from Nikon and Sony. Free YouTube Search Tool – Sign up to the blog newsletter to get a free copy of my YouTube video search tool database. Search my 270+ videos with ease The TTartisan 50mm f/1.2 exhibits some barrel distortion a close distances. Nothing heavy, but it is there. I didn’t feel the need to correct it in post, but it can easily be done since it’s very minute, so the need to crop while correcting is a non issue. Conclusion and Sample Gallery
In the center of the frame almost every lens will render a perfect circle, but only lenses with very low optical vignetting will keep this shape in the corners. Utility Plate, 9:43 AM, 19 December 2020. LEICA M9, TTArtisan 50mm f/1.4 ASPH at f/8 at 1/ 500 at Auto ISO 160 ( LV15⅔). bigger or full resolution JPG image from DNG data processed in Apple Aperture, uncorrected. The TTArtisan 50mm 2.0 is the shortest 50mm lens designed for mirrorless cameras I have seen yet. It is available for Sony E, Canon RF, Nikon Z, Fuji-X, L-mount, Eos-M and M43. I am reviewing the E-mount version here which has the following specifications: Reviewing and using the TTArtisan 50mm 1.4 has been a pleasant surprise as it offers surprisingly good bokeh for a small 50mm lens as well as good sharpness where it matters. Workshops/ Photowalks Mailing List– Sign up to receive info on future events specific to your city/ country/ interestFortunately I could use the lens cap from my Canon EF-M 18-55mm lens, which has the same 52mm filter thread and which I don't use anymore.
It looks like true infinity would have been slightly behind the lens’ hard stop when used on my Leica M10. Due to mount tolerances on lens and camera this can always happen and is the reason most lenses can be focused past the infinity mark. portrait distance 2.0m distance (24mp Sony A7III vs 24mp Leica M10) The focusing ring is also very smooth and has about 120 degree focus throw from 0.5m to infinity. Very fast to focus, yet precise as the closest distances. The grip on the focus ring is not rubber, it’s ribbed etched metal. It feels perfectly smooth with nice dampened stops at each end of the spectrum.When used on an APS-C camera, it sees the same angle of view as a 75 mm lens sees when used on a full-frame or 35mm camera. We will be looking at 100% crops from the 24mp Sony A7III and the Leica M10. Both cameras do not have an anti aliasing filter in front of the sensor. 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.
I did not shoot both lenses side by side, if I did the circles from the f/1.2 lens would be bigger in direct comparison. The focus distance was 0.7 m and you may get slightly different results at other distances. Sharpness infinity (42mp Sony A7rII) A fast aperture 50mm lens like this is ideal for portrait photography in particular, because it works out to an effective 75mm on the crop factor A6400. The lens is also made for the crop factor cameras and comes in a variety of mounts which I cover in the video below. Key Features: 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. The Bokeh balls are very good globally with no trace of onion rings or fringing , their texture is excellent. For the shape of them at It comes with a screw-on metal lens cap which produces an insane amount of noise when you drop it on concrete while trying to be discrete in a quiet Japanese neighborhood.
That's the good news. The bad news is that neither f/1.4 LEICA 50mm lens is very sharp at 1.4 in the corners. The SUMMILUX 50mm f/1.4 was designed for speed, not for sharpness, and the SUMMMILUX-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH and this lens are oprtimized for bokeh over sharpness. For sharpness the LEICA MAN uses his f/2 SUMMICRON. 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. The XF50mm f/1 R WR has autofocus, and obviously the IQ from that lens will run circles around the TTartisan 50mm f/1.2. But in reality these two lenses can’t really be compared based on anything other than their shared focal length. The achilles heel of the TTArtisan 50mm 2.0 is the bad flare resistance. If a light source is anywhere close by, you can be pretty sure to catch some artefacts. With the sun outside the frame shading the lens with my hand helped very often, but this isn’t always a solution and it shouldn’t be.
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