TTArtisan 50mm F0.95 Camera Lens Full Fame Manual Focus Lens Compatible with Leica M Mount Camera Leica M-M M240 M3 M6 M7 M8 M9 M9p M10 (Black version)

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Some of the lenses do cover the full format well enough to be used without cropping too, in particular the Macro-Elmarit-R 60 and 100mm lenses when used for work in the close-up range (1:4 magnification and higher). This makes the adaptation very useful to me. A magnifier eyepiece will help you focusing a lot. Otherwise, I do recommend using an EVF to be sure you are spot on. Even Leica admit the rangefinder mechanisms have its own limitations for really fast lenses. It is written in the Noctilux user guide that there might be errors wide open. You can then assume you will do errors wide open with this lens too. So beat it and learn to use it. Same holds true with the sun close to a corner of the frame. Leica M10 | TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 | f/0.95 So let me write a little bit about the TTartisan 50mm f/1.2 on it own terms, listing its strengths and weaknesses. Then I’ll leave the comparisons out of the equation for now. Build and feel I think I understand your point about corner sharpness for lenses like these— let’s see if I got this right. Say you’re using this wide open to get a portrait. Corner sharpness might even be a distraction from the effect you’re trying to get?

This is a review of the TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95, both on film and digital. Those interested in affordable alternatives to German brands probably already know about TTArtisan. This brand is quite new in the industry and already offers not less than five M mount lenses. I already reviewed two of them in the past (the 35mm f1.4 and the 21mm f1.5) and I have to admit these lenses don’t disappoint for one big reason: they offer some of the best price / performance ratio ever seen on Leica M mount. 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. At wider apertures these values are comparable to the dreadful Zenitar 50mm 0.95 E and about 1.5 EV worse compared to the Zhong Yi 50mm 0.95 E-mount lenses. 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.Filters last a lifetime, so you may as well get the best. The Hoya HD3 stays cleaner than the others since it repels oil and dirt. Well, there aren’t that many f/0.95 alternatives for M-mount available. If you can afford the Leica Noctilux 50mm 0.95 I wonder why you would be reading this, so I will assume you cannot afford to spend 12 grand on that Leica lens, which by the way is also true for me.

I decided to send a message to TTArtisan themselves: Michelle was kind enough to try and work with me, but I never got a straight answer to the question “is this an inherent optical property of this lens design?”. They first directed me to their Youtube video about calibrating focus on the TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 - they definitely thought I was that dumb - but it turned out that the video was again for the 35mm 1.4 and I was not so dumb after all: I was doing exactly as instructed. Then they recommended I calibrated at 1.5m instead of the recommended 2m. Nope, no dice. Then they told me to calibrate at F1.1, because F0.95 was too “sensitive”: wait, what?With such a large maximum aperture, and focal length of 50mm (75mm equivalent), one would think that this lens would be huge but considering what it is, the size of it is actually quite manageable. In other words, it’s really not that big. I would argue it’s actually compact given what its capabilities are. I had this lens mounted on my Fuji X-T3 for weeks, and it’s something that balances very nicely on the camera. This does not seem to be an aspherical lens, which is too bad as this is exactly the sort of lens that needs aspherical elements for sharpness— but aspherical elements usually lead to poor bokeh. It gets much sharper as stopped down, but if you want to stop down, any other lens is sharper. 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.

This Mitakon 50mm f/0.95 is a completely manual lens, with manual focus and manual aperture setting. It has no electronic communication to anything.It is obvious that there are slower lenses that offer higher resolution, contrast and generally better correction of optical aberrations. On the copy I’ve gotten the indices use a different font. It’s more angular, it’s still different from Leica, but I think it’s a significant improvement. If you focus on something farther the Zhong Yi lenses are slightly sharper and the bokeh also renders a bit smoother. So far this lens only comes in M-mount, but maybe we will also be seeing an E-mount version as was already the case with the TTArtisan 11mm 2.8 fisheye. The 50mm 0.95 reviewed here has the following specifications: Throughout this series of lenses I had to calibrate my rangefinder a few times, so the issues I had with some of these lenses might have been the camera’s fault, but I can’t say for sure.