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5 hours ago, jdlaing said:

Look bottom right. There be a by golly red dot.

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TT Artisan should bump the price to 4000$ and some people will jump on it praising how good it is

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I just bought TT 35mm APO today, the lens is very sharp and good color. 

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From my perspective, this is not as simple as a Leica/TT stone-throwing contest. I’ve purchased several TT Artisan lenses, each time with the sincere hope that they would provide a low cost, competent solution to a particular focal length-aperture combination I was looking for.

I never expected them to beat, or even match the Leica OEM equivalent, but at this point none of them provided results that were tolerable to me, especially wide open and at minimum focus distance, where I tend to shoot. Even the 28mm f5.6 fell short, and I wrote extensively about it head-to-head with the Summaron  (a lens I do not like) in the last Viewfinder issue. This is in both build quality and image rendering.

This isn’t 3rd party snobbery— the Zeiss 15, 18, 35mm Distagons and the 50mm Planar are as good as, if not better than Leica in terms of imaging quality and significantly less expensive than their counterparts. The issue boils down to how much compromise are you willing at accept, balanced with the often HUGE cost savings. Is the TT Artisan 80% as good? 90%? At 20% of the cost? 10%? Where is your individual priority?

For me, hope kept springing eternal, and I would buy the TT Artisan lens, and then, in actual use, be let down enough to sell it off, at a respectable loss. 

 

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Not bad. Just somewhat large, blocks the viewfinder and is prone to flare, but overall it seem like a decent lens. Everyone has their own image/ lens standard.

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44 minutes ago, cboy said:

somewhat large, blocks the viewfinder and is prone to flare

Sounds like a dream 😅

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just compared Leica R, M & TTA APO 35mm

Left upper picture R90 ,  lower R60mm

Right upper M50, lower TTA APO35mm 

 

 

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