I have both the 35 and 50. There’s a 25 that is soon to be released. These lenses wide open are difficult but rewarding when you get the shot you need. I love these lenses. Every lens has drawbacks, these are no exceptions. I’m still very pleased with all six of my 7artisan lenses. Great value.
I got it and it is great. I have no problem with the focusing given the excelent sony zoom focus assist. The /.95 fringing is kind of insane tho - everything black turns purple. However I am having a blast with the shallow depth of field as it has never been so easy to separate a part of the street. It's really a beyond full frame experience on a tiny apsc.
the reason the bokeh size seems the same with sigma 56mm is because of the focal length differences over the same distance to the subject, naturally a tighter focal will always render creamier bokeh. i think you can only see the different if you frame the subject with the same proportion instead of using same distance
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Добрый день! Im using this one for Fuji for the last month, and is a great lense for the money, thanks for the videos. Regards from Moscow.
Thanks for another good review of this lens Arthur. It's a shame with its downfalls but then i guess at the price .. you get what you pay for. I've got several lenses now as a result of your channel and have been over the moon (i have the Tamron 70-300 and the Sigma 30) and wowed with the images. Thanks for sharing and here's to the next video
This lens looks great! By the way...if you want to go with manual focus, for 230$ you can buy a Contax Zeiss f1.7 that you can resell it for 400$ in few years...just saying it. Great review as always Arthur!
Hi Arthur. Greetings from Belarus. We are really looking forward to the review of sony ZV-E10 and its comparison with the sony 6400 and 6600. I would like to see exactly the review from you, since I trust your presentation of the material and experience.
Looking at these samples, the extreme hazyness is largely due to flare and you should be able to cut that drastically with a hood. Even the Canon EF 85 1.2 L will flare like that without a hood in the right circumstances outdoors.
I see ya Ballin here in ATX! Love the shots you got with the skyline and pretty much all your shots that you shared on your video are astonishing considering you pulled those out of that super cheap china lens! mad props to you for working pure magic bc to a photo and video noob like myself it seems like a daunting task to say the least. I have a ZVE10 and I do not think that I could compete even if it was literally to save my life lmao! love the content and hopefully I'll be able to get some good footage to upload this weekend. I'm attempting to take my English bully puppy to a dog park for the first time and hoping to get some nice shots and clips out of it. thanks for inspiring a fellow austinite to get up and go shoot! keep it up playa!
I bought this lense last month and I'm loving it. No doubt its a MF lense but with focus peaking on my A6400, it makes the job easier and it gets better after a few attempts. CA is obvious wide open and it can easily be corrected in LR even though there's no lense profile. Focus plane is razor thin at 0.95, but the effect is pretty amazing once you nail it. I also bought the 35mm F0.95 two weeks back and that is a better focal length and almost zero CA at wide open. Thanks again for the review Arthur!
I just found a video of world class model photographer Peter Coulson, shooting Meika Woollard. He was actually "Wow about this lens"! He got some amazing pics of Meika.
Nice review as always. These affordable lenses have gotten me picking up my camera more often. It is a lot of fun to play with them. I wish there were some more samples showing what a 0.95 can do in lowlight situations. It is the main selling point, or may be even better, do a comparison on all the 0.95 in the market today, including the Leica. Not that I can afford it, I am just curious to find out how good it is.
This lens is defitnately not bad. But the Sigma 56mm f1.4 is still my first choice. I also find the image quality of this 50mm moderate and the bokeh too agressive when shooting at f0.95 at day time...
I'm not sure actually. It would be a 75mm F/1.4. Not sure one of those exists. Maybe someone makes one for the Leica M mount, but definitely nothing with autofocus
Congratulations on the video, always bringing great content. I have a question, would I be able to work with this lens? do some work or a 56mm 1.4 (sigma) would be better, would it be worth it to change some sharpness for a more "nice" bokeh, thanks.
Jus found your channel, thank you for the informative content! Have h done a video with the best budgets lens’s for the Sony ZV-E10? Would love to hear your opinion on you fav ones. Thank you!
Hi Arthur...I am inspired by your videos. I want to have a telezoom lens for my Sony A-58 ( A mount) preferably a 600 mm lens. Could you please guide me which lens shall i get...either from sigma or tamron. It will be a great help !! Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks !!
Hi Dear Arthur. An awesome review as always. I have really a huge problem with this type of lenses - they are only manual focus, they are non stabilized and they are very very soft when you want the maximum aperture. I want something very good for low light and night photography, shallow depth of field, but also convenient for me to use, so I despirately need autofocus and also stabilization, especially for my a6000 camera. And I don't have money for an upgrade to the a6600 with ibis and either I don't have a fortune to get something like a Leica lens. A big problem
Superb review! I'm surprised that these Chinese brands are actually available world wide now. New generation of Chinese industrialists are working hard trying to shake off the "cheap, bad quality made in china" stereotype but it's a long way to go. There's many technical difficulties lying there and they are catching up step by step. Hope some of them can actually survive and we will all benefit from the competition.
Hi I just accidentally dropped my 7artisans 50mm f0.95 lens (dropped the lens to the shopping mall ground/floor) and leaving one scratch mark & faded coating. And the lens glass still normal (didn't break) and the video & photo results also seems normal. But when I shook the lens body, I heard some shaking sound/noise, is it ok?
Hi, nice video. Could you maybe try a low light video test with just A6500/A6600 without a gimble to see whether it produces usable video? I assume gimble is out of the question with such a front heavy manual focus lens..
So here's my impression looking at your shots..... Visually, it doesn't really have that classic looking "magic" rendering that some people might sacrifice modern sharpness for in a given application. It looks like a less sharp modern lens rendering. It's not terrible but not an effect I'm looking for. The price for specs rato is incredible for that crazy shallow depth of field on a APS-C sensor, but that's severely handicapped by the overly shallow focus ring...... So it doesn't really work.... But it's still technically somewhat impressive ... At the end of the day, it falls a little too short, IMO. It could work for some people for portraits...... It's not entirely unflattering and I'd enjoy playing with it...... But not enough to buy one.
when you said there is not much difference in bokeh, there is. But also, its a 6mm shorter focal length, if you moved closer, there would be a bigger difference. You can see it when you zoom out of the details on the picture of your wife.
Talking about sharpness or chromatic aberration of this lens is like talking about the color of your food, irrelevant. You buy this lens for its character, not the technical quality of the image. Character >> technical quality, we are artists not engineers.
@@alexyjm haha, to put it relatively simply, F-stop is a measure of the physical opening of the lens. T-stop is a measure of the light transmission of the lens to the sensor. They can be different because light transmission is affected by coatings, glass quality, loss of light as it's reflected when passing through lens elements etc. In the cinema industry, lenses use T-stop measures rather than F-stop. This doesn't happen with photography lenses because it's a more precise measurement, you'd have to test and calibrate every lens produced. With F-stops, you just have to make the lens opening the correct size
You should definitely do more of a comparison video of the 50mm lenses. Would be great to see them side by side in a lot more examples.
Your photos are so much better than others who've reviewed this lol, you have a good knack for nailing focus
I have both the 35 and 50. There’s a 25 that is soon to be released. These lenses wide open are difficult but rewarding when you get the shot you need. I love these lenses. Every lens has drawbacks, these are no exceptions. I’m still very pleased with all six of my 7artisan lenses. Great value.
A comparison with the Kamlan 50mm f/1.1 II would be nice.
I got it and it is great. I have no problem with the focusing given the excelent sony zoom focus assist. The /.95 fringing is kind of insane tho - everything black turns purple. However I am having a blast with the shallow depth of field as it has never been so easy to separate a part of the street. It's really a beyond full frame experience on a tiny apsc.
the reason the bokeh size seems the same with sigma 56mm is because of the focal length differences over the same distance to the subject, naturally a tighter focal will always render creamier bokeh. i think you can only see the different if you frame the subject with the same proportion instead of using same distance
Добрый день! Im using this one for Fuji for the last month, and is a great lense for the money, thanks for the videos. Regards from Moscow.
Thanks for another good review of this lens Arthur. It's a shame with its downfalls but then i guess at the price .. you get what you pay for. I've got several lenses now as a result of your channel and have been over the moon (i have the Tamron 70-300 and the Sigma 30) and wowed with the images. Thanks for sharing and here's to the next video
Please do the new Tamron 18-300 review (and vs Sony 70-350 pls) 😃
This lens looks great!
By the way...if you want to go with manual focus, for 230$ you can buy a Contax Zeiss f1.7 that you can resell it for 400$ in few years...just saying it.
Great review as always Arthur!
How is a legacy lens more valuable after a few years?
@@chidorirasenganz they're getting rare to find and they can't be produced anymore.
@@LucaBono.Studio ahhh
You are my favorite . Your production quality remarkable. Love from Pakistan
Hi Arthur. Greetings from Belarus. We are really looking forward to the review of sony ZV-E10 and its comparison with the sony 6400 and 6600. I would like to see exactly the review from you, since I trust your presentation of the material and experience.
I really like my 7Artisen 35 and my Sigma 16, I was debating on the Sigma 56 or 7Artisen 50.
Looking at these samples, the extreme hazyness is largely due to flare and you should be able to cut that drastically with a hood. Even the Canon EF 85 1.2 L will flare like that without a hood in the right circumstances outdoors.
could you recomment me a hood and where to buy it? I have a hood for the 62mm filter size but there is simply no way to attach it to the lens.
@@avavaviv1 buy a screw lens hood
@@trym2121 or a black silicone hood
I see ya Ballin here in ATX! Love the shots you got with the skyline and pretty much all your shots that you shared on your video are astonishing considering you pulled those out of that super cheap china lens! mad props to you for working pure magic bc to a photo and video noob like myself it seems like a daunting task to say the least. I have a ZVE10 and I do not think that I could compete even if it was literally to save my life lmao! love the content and hopefully I'll be able to get some good footage to upload this weekend. I'm attempting to take my English bully puppy to a dog park for the first time and hoping to get some nice shots and clips out of it. thanks for inspiring a fellow austinite to get up and go shoot! keep it up playa!
3:17 I thought that was distortion lol
I bought this lense last month and I'm loving it. No doubt its a MF lense but with focus peaking on my A6400, it makes the job easier and it gets better after a few attempts.
CA is obvious wide open and it can easily be corrected in LR even though there's no lense profile.
Focus plane is razor thin at 0.95, but the effect is pretty amazing once you nail it.
I also bought the 35mm F0.95 two weeks back and that is a better focal length and almost zero CA at wide open.
Thanks again for the review Arthur!
Still going to get the Sigma 56 over this I think. Then the rest of the trilogy.
I just found a video of world class model photographer Peter Coulson, shooting Meika Woollard. He was actually "Wow about this lens"! He got some amazing pics of Meika.
Nice review as always. These affordable lenses have gotten me picking up my camera more often. It is a lot of fun to play with them. I wish there were some more samples showing what a 0.95 can do in lowlight situations. It is the main selling point, or may be even better, do a comparison on all the 0.95 in the market today, including the Leica. Not that I can afford it, I am just curious to find out how good it is.
This lens is defitnately not bad. But the Sigma 56mm f1.4 is still my first choice. I also find the image quality of this 50mm moderate and the bokeh too agressive when shooting at f0.95 at day time...
Can you post a cinematic test video that shot from this lens?
Does this have some ff alternative?
I'm not sure actually. It would be a 75mm F/1.4. Not sure one of those exists. Maybe someone makes one for the Leica M mount, but definitely nothing with autofocus
Congratulations on the video, always bringing great content. I have a question, would I be able to work with this lens? do some work or a 56mm 1.4 (sigma) would be better, would it be worth it to change some sharpness for a more "nice" bokeh, thanks.
keep your sigma. it's a much better lens
Jus found your channel, thank you for the informative content! Have h done a video with the best budgets lens’s for the Sony ZV-E10? Would love to hear your opinion on you fav ones. Thank you!
03:50 so much purple fringing
Hi Arthur...I am inspired by your videos. I want to have a telezoom lens for my Sony A-58 ( A mount) preferably a 600 mm lens. Could you please guide me which lens shall i get...either from sigma or tamron. It will be a great help !! Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks !!
Is it good for videography?
How much more effort is it to add the electronic connection for the EXIF data?
Also that thing needs a lens hood.
Great review!
Now I’m just waiting for a 23-25mm .95🤞
you make great reviews
Hi Dear Arthur. An awesome review as always. I have really a huge problem with this type of lenses - they are only manual focus, they are non stabilized and they are very very soft when you want the maximum aperture. I want something very good for low light and night photography, shallow depth of field, but also convenient for me to use, so I despirately need autofocus and also stabilization, especially for my a6000 camera. And I don't have money for an upgrade to the a6600 with ibis and either I don't have a fortune to get something like a Leica lens. A big problem
We need a sony a6400 vs sony zv e 10 comparison from you
Superb review! I'm surprised that these Chinese brands are actually available world wide now. New generation of Chinese industrialists are working hard trying to shake off the "cheap, bad quality made in china" stereotype but it's a long way to go. There's many technical difficulties lying there and they are catching up step by step. Hope some of them can actually survive and we will all benefit from the competition.
Does it take filters
Yes, 62mm filter thread.
That 56 is a champ. 7artisans is really bad with focus throw. I sold my 35 0.95 due to that reason although that one is a fun lens
can you use this lens on Sony fullframe? maybe its like ttartisan 50mm f 0.95 APS-C but can put on fullframe camera
Pretty much the lense I´m looking for. BUT: a missing AF is a huge no-go for me.
If it had AF that would be crazy. That'd be an awesome lens!
Agree. I will never take a photo of a human with manual focus.
it's probably the same as Meike 50m F0.95?
this vs the meike 50mm f095 ?
Can u do video about some budget AF mount converter for sony a6 series. Im considering canon 85mmf1.8 on sony a6000 because of skin tone. Thank you
Hi I just accidentally dropped my 7artisans 50mm f0.95 lens (dropped the lens to the shopping mall ground/floor) and leaving one scratch mark & faded coating.
And the lens glass still normal (didn't break) and the video & photo results also seems normal.
But when I shook the lens body, I heard some shaking sound/noise, is it ok?
If only CA could be addressed in this lens... It would simply be the Best of the class.
Very nice for the price 👌
Hi, nice video. Could you maybe try a low light video test with just A6500/A6600 without a gimble to see whether it produces usable video? I assume gimble is out of the question with such a front heavy manual focus lens..
So here's my impression looking at your shots..... Visually, it doesn't really have that classic looking "magic" rendering that some people might sacrifice modern sharpness for in a given application. It looks like a less sharp modern lens rendering. It's not terrible but not an effect I'm looking for. The price for specs rato is incredible for that crazy shallow depth of field on a APS-C sensor, but that's severely handicapped by the overly shallow focus ring...... So it doesn't really work.... But it's still technically somewhat impressive ... At the end of the day, it falls a little too short, IMO. It could work for some people for portraits...... It's not entirely unflattering and I'd enjoy playing with it...... But not enough to buy one.
Now I don't have to sell my kidney to buy the canon 50 0.95
I hate this lens but I love the video
I think it's looks like oil cus it's low f i saw other expensive lower then f1 it's make image looks like that
The point of this video: Just get the 56mm Sigma 🤪
when you said there is not much difference in bokeh, there is. But also, its a 6mm shorter focal length, if you moved closer, there would be a bigger difference. You can see it when you zoom out of the details on the picture of your wife.
Anybody use this on a Sony full frame…?
Nice.
Why not design and create a lens by yourself. I may benefit from that.
You definitely chose the wrong video title 😂
Nice staring point for mark II lens just like with Kamlan 1.1 and their own 35mm 0.95 mark I. Because so far this lens is SOFT!!!
🤩👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
These lenses have no software correction capability in lightroom or DXO, stick with Sony or Sigma
Very true. Manual focus and manual corrections.
56mm f1.4 Voigtlander for me. Not made in China. No plastic. F-stop clicks.
Talking about sharpness or chromatic aberration of this lens is like talking about the color of your food, irrelevant.
You buy this lens for its character, not the technical quality of the image.
Character >> technical quality, we are artists not engineers.
So 1/1600 shutter at 0.95 vs 1/1250 sigma at 1.4... so unlikely a real 0.95.. probably more like 1.2...
T-stops Vs F-stops. It's still an f0.95, it's likely a t1.2.
Almost all fast lenses show similar differences between f-stop rating and t-stop rating
@@SuttonBen thanks, will read about this as I have no idea what you just said :) I though 1 stop faster means 2x shutter speed.
@@alexyjm haha, to put it relatively simply, F-stop is a measure of the physical opening of the lens. T-stop is a measure of the light transmission of the lens to the sensor. They can be different because light transmission is affected by coatings, glass quality, loss of light as it's reflected when passing through lens elements etc.
In the cinema industry, lenses use T-stop measures rather than F-stop. This doesn't happen with photography lenses because it's a more precise measurement, you'd have to test and calibrate every lens produced. With F-stops, you just have to make the lens opening the correct size
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