TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 review

[Harpomatic]

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Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know I published a review of the TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 lens and I think the findings might be interesting for you.

I hope you enjoy the reading!

Flavio

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3 minutes ago, Harpomatic said:

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know I published a review of the TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 lens and I think the findings might be interesting for you.

I hope you enjoy the reading!

Flavio

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[Harpomatic]

Ha...I did it again...what an idiot! 😅

https://www.47-degree.com/focus-shift/ttartisan-50mm-095-review

[Gobert]

Interesting review. Well done, I must say. 
After having read this I won’t trade in my original Noctilux for this imitation one 🤪

 

[insomnia]

Great content for anyone interested in the lens, thumbs up Flavio!

[Harpomatic]

23 minutes ago, Gobert said:

Interesting review. Well done, I must say. 
After having read this I won’t trade in my original Noctilux for this imitation one 🤪

 

Thanks! I certainly wouldn’t trade...😳🤣

 

7 minutes ago, insomnia said:

Great content for anyone interested in the lens, thumbs up Flavio!

Thank you, I appreciate that. That’s the aim!

[sinjun]

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Thanks so much for this well-written review - just what I was waiting for. Thorough and thoughtful with excellent illustrations of technical and practical consderations.

[250swb]

6 hours ago, Harpomatic said:

Ha...I did it again...what an idiot! 😅

https://www.47-degree.com/focus-shift/ttartisan-50mm-095-review

An excellent review. 

They are intriguing lenses for sure. I have the 35mm f/1.4 and the very good build quality, and the fact mine worked out of the box without using the screwdriver I think are the big pluses. In use it feels like a Leica lens, the weight of focusing and the aperture ring are spot on, but wide open it works incredibly well at close distances, but not so well at mid distance. There seems to be a blind spot in the lens formula that misses out middle distance. But as soon as the lens is stopped down to f/2 it works in an exemplary way. I get the feeling from what you've written maybe something similar (but not the same)is going on with the 50mm f/0.95?

[Harpomatic]

4 hours ago, sinjun said:

Thanks so much for this well-written review - just what I was waiting for. Thorough and thoughtful with excellent illustrations of technical and practical consderations.

Thanks a lot! I really try to balance the technical and the practical aspects to have a readily usable set of information to evaluate the lens. I’m happy that you find it useful.

 

31 minutes ago, 250swb said:

An excellent review. 

Thanks again!

 

31 minutes ago, 250swb said:

They are intriguing lenses for sure. I have the 35mm f/1.4 and the very good build quality, and the fact mine worked out of the box without using the screwdriver I think are the big pluses. In use it feels like a Leica lens, the weight of focusing and the aperture ring are spot on, but wide open it works incredibly well at close distances, but not so well at mid distance. There seems to be a blind spot in the lens formula that misses out middle distance. But as soon as the lens is stopped down to f/2 it works in an exemplary way. I get the feeling from what you've written maybe something similar (but not the same)is going on with the 50mm f/0.95?

You might be right there. From what you are telling me these lenses have glaring issues that make them less balanced than they could be. I wonder if this might just be that the lens designers lack the experience to get the finer nuances to really balance these ambitious designs?

[rivi1969]

9 hours ago, Harpomatic said:

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know I published a review of the TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 lens and I think the findings might be interesting for you.

I hope you enjoy the reading!

Flavio

Thanks for sharing Flavio, excellent review with many great images. It might not be as superb as a 10,000 USD lens, but this one goes for little less than 1/10 of that! Apparently this lens is much better than the 7Artisans 50mm f1.1 and the Voigtlander F1.1. You got a new Instagram follower.

Edited August 29, 2020 by rivi1969

[jdlaing]

Much better.

[spydrxx]

Well done, comprehensive review. Thanks.

[jaeger]

This lens seems to quality as a f/1.4 lens. 

How clean inside the barrel when you use a flash light to look through it? 

[XRayGuy]

What an excellent review.  Thank you for taking the time to make it, and for sharing it with us.

I had the 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1 and it was junk.  Developed a rattle shortly after purchase and seemed to defocus spontaneously after that, and that experience has really soured me on these cheap lenses from China.  I think if one is looking to save money with a non-Leica alternative, Voigtlander is the best value proposition out there (and I enjoyed your VM 35mm review also, on that note).

[250swb]

8 hours ago, Harpomatic said:

You might be right there. From what you are telling me these lenses have glaring issues that make them less balanced than they could be. I wonder if this might just be that the lens designers lack the experience to get the finer nuances to really balance these ambitious designs?

For me the observation I made about a blind spot in the design was mostly academic but noticeable when I tried it. Close up, say two to eight feet and wide open with a foreground subject the 35mm f/1.4 is pretty sharp and the bokeh is very nice, beyond that it goes to mush and ugly bokeh before behaving itself again nearer infinity. So as a landscape photographer using the lens wide open beyond eight feet gets into that weird zone where the foreground and the background are out of focus, a tiny bit is supposed to be in focus and it's all too confusing on the eye anyway, even if the lens was perfect. So on a practical note the lens works fine for me, if it has a game changing downside I haven't found it,... yet.

[Harpomatic]

8 hours ago, rivi1969 said:

Thanks for sharing Flavio, excellent review with many great images.

 

8 hours ago, jdlaing said:

Much better.

 

6 hours ago, spydrxx said:

Well done, comprehensive review. Thanks.

 

2 hours ago, XRayGuy said:

What an excellent review.  Thank you for taking the time to make it, and for sharing it with us.

Thanks everyone!

 

8 hours ago, rivi1969 said:

You got a new Instagram follower.

You too! Thanks!

 

4 hours ago, jaeger said:

How clean inside the barrel when you use a flash light to look through it? 

I’ll have a look. What do you expect to see? Is that about the streaks in the bokeh balls?

 

35 minutes ago, 250swb said:

For me the observation I made about a blind spot in the design was mostly academic but noticeable when I tried it. Close up, say two to eight feet and wide open with a foreground subject the 35mm f/1.4 is pretty sharp and the bokeh is very nice, beyond that it goes to mush and ugly bokeh before behaving itself again nearer infinity. So as a landscape photographer using the lens wide open beyond eight feet gets into that weird zone where the foreground and the background are out of focus, a tiny bit is supposed to be in focus and it's all too confusing on the eye anyway, even if the lens was perfect. So on a practical note the lens works fine for me, if it has a game changing downside I haven't found it,... yet.

This makes me very curious to test the lens! I wish I did understand optics a lot better to have an idea about what causes those changes. But I don’t have the time to delve into the physics of it for now...

[Harpomatic]

2 hours ago, XRayGuy said:

and I enjoyed your VM 35mm review also

That’s really good to hear!

[jaeger]

16 hours ago, Harpomatic said:

20 hours ago, jaeger said:

How clean inside the barrel when you use a flash light to look through it? 

I’ll have a look. What do you expect to see? Is that about the streaks in the bokeh balls?

I ordered a ttartisan 75mm f1.25 before but when I look thur it, oh my goodness I saw all sort of dust, hair and what not.  I returned it immediately. 

[satijntje]

vor 7 Stunden schrieb jaeger:

I ordered a ttartisan 75mm f1.25 before but when I look thur it, oh my goodness I saw all sort of dust, hair and what not.  I returned it immediately. 

Mine 75mm f1.25 China lens had a 2mm black plastic particle behind the first lens. Returned it and got full refund. 
Now I got the 0.95 (without particles inside) and need to find some time to use it 🙂

 

 

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[Harpomatic]

14 hours ago, jaeger said:

I ordered a ttartisan 75mm f1.25 before but when I look thur it, oh my goodness I saw all sort of dust, hair and what not.  I returned it immediately. 

Thanks for the suggestion! The inside is clean, but the rear element is badly scratched!! And I saw it at first shining the light from the front. I then found that the rear surface of the rear element is all scratched. Sorry for the crappy picture, iPhone and enlarged...

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7 hours ago, satijntje said:

Mine 75mm f1.25 China lens had a 2mm black plastic particle behind the first lens. Returned it and got full refund. 
Now I got the 0.95 (without particles inside) and need to find some time to use it 🙂

The inside of the lens barrel is clean for me as well, but the rear element...damn!