It does seem appealing. But honestly with the deluge of vintage tele-primes its a hard sell for me. I've got sigma and tamron's of various focal that are great. If TT added chips to make the lenses readable by the camera it would be a great reason to get one, as the vintage ones don't offer that.
I think you're thinking about it right. I don't think it offers much over a vintage telephoto, if you already got one you like. Also, if you have more pro level vintage telephotos, I think they would outperform this. This feels much better than the cheap older telephotos I've used, though. Sort of middle of the road, and a fair price for performance.
I have a Pentax K to Q manual adapter and after years not using it attempted to shoot the moon bolting on a Pentax-A 200mm F4 telephoto. It was not great, especially after using the Q/Q10 cameras with the gorgious Q 06 15-45 which acts like an 85-250mm lens. The 06 is my go to tele lens for travel, a tiny jewel!
Boy I love this channel .... you do so much I did a few years ago when I had a tinkering craze combining anything and everything. I tried the pentax q and an old russian MTO 1000mm lens and the results were insane
I have just bought the Kelda version of this lens but I haven't received it yet. I know that this version comes with a T2 mount ,meaning that it may be matched up with any camera so long as you can find a suitable adapter. I will be using mine with a Canon EOS mount + on my Olympus E3 and E30 Four Thirds cameras.
In a few months I want to buy this EF mount lens for my 5Dmk3, but also to put it on my little canon M100. I'm looking for some light and solid tripod to use it hahaha. I think it would be tremendously interesting to have such a “compact” combo with the M100.
I'm honestly surprised the chromatic aberration is so well-controlled for a 'budget' lens that long. Been wanting to build M645 & RZ67 to L mount adapters. I bought a mint condition Mamiya-Seikor C 500mm f/5.6 a couple months back for the Mamiya 645 system. It's about an ~877mm f/4 equivalent when mounted on full frame 35mm body. for a crazy low ~$220 (+$100 shipping from Japan.. lol. It). It is the "light-weight, semi-portable" option compared at ~2.2kg compared to the APO f/4.5 lens, which is a whopping 5.5kg (and extremely rare/expensive). Chromatic aberrations are about on-par with TTartisans lens, which is pretty impressive when you consider the age and size. That is, until you whack the 2x TC in front of it.. lol
Love it! Too bad it's not designed for older SLR mounts. That longer flange distance would have allowed for the use of a speed booster. So, lens, booster, MFT camera would have meant a 600mm'ish lens at about f4.5 - four ~$350. How cool what that be.
That would be cool. The design feels like it was inspired by a vintage SLR lens, and there's a lot of space before the rear element. So, I feel like it could've been made to work on SLRs... Too bad.
I just got in a Takumar 500mm f/5 that I’m going to attach to my original Q, it’s gonna be loads of fun. For clearer moon details, you might consider trying lucky imaging and stacking raw shots! Ian Norman on Lonely Speck recently did some moon shots with a Q and a 420mm scope and produced some incredible results with lucky imaging. Worth looking into. And yeah the Q line stabilization is a treat for photos but horrid for video 😂
I also love that you just casually made an X to Q adapter. I’ve been wanting to experiment with some 3D modeling to make some other custom adapters I had in mind
I checked out that video Ian made, fantastic work he does. I can't remember if it was you or someone else who told me about it. I was actually surprised by the video quality. I remembered it being terrible so my expectations were super low. I'm easy to please I guess. Too much time around really old cameras lately xD That 500mm Takumar sounds awesome!
this camera's crop factor is 4.55x which make the focal length *2275mm* !!! if this is a pentax Q with a smaller 1/2.3 inch sensor then you got 3000mm which is equivalent to nikon coolpix p1000's maximum optical zoom
Have an old Sunagor 400mm f5.6 manual lens, Pentax K mount. I managed to find an adaptor for it to fit my old Nikon 1J1, and ended up with a similarly odd looking setup. Looks like a bazooka with a deck of cards stuck on the back. lol With the crop factor from the 1" sensor of 2.7 it gives reach of 1080mm. Very hard to handle manually and even on a tripod shakes around like crazy. The rotary focus throw on that old lens is a mile long, has to be close to 300 degrees of turn, so I'm not doing any songbird photos with it. Got a few decent shots of hummingbirds on the feeder though.
Not the perfect adapter😊. BUT you're the only photographer, youtuber i heard of even printing an adapter on your own!💪👍👍👍 that's enthusiam. Go on with your informative, honest and very entertaining videos. Another point is, me as a non native english speaker , its easy to understand you because of your clear and calm voice.
I've been binge watching your content the whole day. I have been very interested in old cameras lately after I found a Nikon Coolpix S3200, Kodak EasyShare M1063, Canon ixus 170, Sony handyman DCR SX21 and a very old Minolta autopak all lying around in the store room. I also had some other old cameras that I cannot find and am afraid that I threw out but can't remember, I remember having a mini dv Handycam that also supported SD card and also a VHS camera. I was wondering which camera should I get now, one of the Powershots that worked on AA batteries or a CCD Digital SLR.
Nikon J4 + FT1 + Nikkor 200-500mm + TC-14E III == 750-1900mm FOV + auto-focus + vibration reduction. This combo was disabled in software on the J5, unfortunately. Don't even think about adding extension tubes.... 😎
Impressive, making your own adapter even if it wasn't 100%! Pity that Pentax gave up on the Q. It could be an interesting option for birders and others who want long tele, but can't pay for a more mainstream system.
I have a Q. Really cute camera in all white leatherette. Kinda gives that 60's go go vibe. However, it isn't really very good as a camera. The sensor is just too small. It's undifferentiated from a cell phone cam. Mine is a shelf queen.
I think that's true in some senses, but the ability to mount lenses makes it quite different. For example, the standard prime and 06 can deliver beautiful bokeh even on the small sensor. The price hike of these recently makes them less appealing. It used to be easy to pick one up and a couple lenses for $100 a few years back.
At 24-28mm it's worse than phones. Above that is where the pentax gains the advantage. For example the 10x (230mm equivalent) prime lens on the s22/23 ultra is using a tiny 1/3.52 sensor lens with a narrow f4.9 aperture. Meanwhile the variable 06 lens on the pentax (85-250mm on q/q10, 70-210mm on q7) has a narrower f2.8 aperture combined with a much bigger sensor at 1/2.3 (q10 & others) or 1/1.7 (q7) on the pentax.
So i tried my q10 with my sigma 150-600mm sp, focusing is hard w/o a tripod, the output is kinda usable. I also have an old 3x kenko teleconverter, but i havent tried it yet 😅
Thank you! I got an old Sony NEX-7 that I bought in July, and really enjoy it. I was looking for big telephoto lenses and found the cheapest at 700-900GBP..... yeaaaah... Currently unemployed, that's difficult for me.. I cannot describe the excitement I got when I saw that price of 275GBP on the website.... and the option for a Sony-E Mount!!! YES PLEASE! Although I won't be able to afford it for a while, it being 75% cheaper then the other options is a massive win in my book. Means I've got something to look forward to when I can save up.
It seems like exactly the type of lens for your situation. What are you hoping to photograph with it? It was hard to focus on fast moving subjects, but for anything big or not moving the manual focus is smooth and pretty easy, especially with focus peaking on these mirrorless cameras.
@@snappiness mainly nature photography, but I also do street photography from time to time, and this would help me with me being shy lol. It has autofocus functionality, right?
Hey man love your videos. I think you might be confused about magnification vs crop factor. If you set up a 4x5 camera and change the film back sizes, you'll quickly realize crop factor has nothing to do with magnification.... you're only changing where you 'place your border' so to speak. The only thing that can change magnification is physical distance to the object or a change of focal length. It's a common misconception, even among some hardcore 'forum' guys, but if you've spent a few years doing macro photography with interchangeable film backs, you quickly realize this. Crop factor has been used as a marketing term mostly, to fool people into thinking it has something to do with magnification, but it doesn't.
I'm with you, so maybe I am just using the wrong terms. I'm just referring to the equivalent field of view, like cropping into a photo 4x times, which like you said doesn't change the magnification. You can let me know how to be clearer.
If you want to get close to the moon, I recommend a clean copy of a Nikkor 1000mm f/11 reflex mirror lens, which has no chromatic aberrations, but is painfully sharp, but is completely useless for anything other than astrophotography. You'll also need the absolute sturdiest tripod and 3-way tripod head and possibly a counterweight on your centre-column and a way to suppress the vibrations before shutter clicks. Wood is much better than metal for me. To be honest with you, even then, the slightest wind outside amplifies the vibrations to the point of softening your picture (due to the mirror lens doubling the effective vibrations). I've finally come to the conclusion, to get pin-sharp astro pictures or videos, it's best to build your setup indoors with an open roof or have some sort of enclosure that completely blocks the wind from the sides. Point being... at extreme macro distances and extremely long-focal lengths... you need specialized equipment or structures to cancel vibrations. It takes a lot of energy, which is why I don't do those things anymore. Hope this helps.
I have a old 500 mm F 8 - F32 TOU/FIVE STAR manuel focus lens I bought with K mount from the 1970's I bought it new for my Pentax film cameras it looks very similar to the new TT Artisan lens
A lot of these TTArtisan lenses seem to be inspired directly by certain vintage lenses. It wouldn't surprise me if the optical formula was very close to some.
Do you have a reference to compare it to in regard to vintage glass? I think the closest I can find that makes sense pricewise is a canon nFD 400mm f4.5, but if the optical quality of ttartisans is better, it would be a far better deal. Sadly all reviews I see online for this lens compare it to very expensive new lenses? which seems a bit unfair for what it’s trying to do.
@@snappinessjust curious, with the available options here, are they any mount adpaters to M43 available? I don't mind buying the R mount version if there is an R to M43 mount adaptor available.
I have an adapter to mount my Pentax K-mount lenses (especially my DA 60-250 f4) on my Q (not Q7). To be honest, handheld it’s a waste of time. Aiming is almost impossible. I need an adapter to mount my red dot sight onto the hot shoe.
You should take a video from that pentax camera like 5 or 10 minutes to do stacking in autostakkert, stack like best 25%, and you’ll get the sharper image than you think
I want to buy a CCD camera. I am very invested in both Olympus and Pentax cameras and systems. My question to you, am I better off buting and older Pentax DSLR with a CCD sensor, or should I buy a good digicam like the olympus XZ-1??
I thought it would use a standard T mount with individual adapters for each mount, but I'm obviously wrong. That immediately shoots it down for me, as I'd want it for both L mount and MFT. I guess it's back to the Canon FDn 400mm f/4.5 that I once owned instead 🤣
There's quite a big of room before the rear element, so I feel like that would be possible... After they released that M42 lens recently I thought they might be doing that more. Would be cool.
I love your video, could you do the same thing but with a smartphone? Just wondering how you would go about mounting it to a smartphone. Was thinking of getting those telescope smartphone mounts and trying it out with this TTartisan 500mm lens. Anyways loved the video again!!
I think it's a perspective thing. I'm comparing this to vintage telephotos I've used which are in the same price range, not pro lenses. For me it's not horrible and perfectly usable, even if not nearly as good as my more pro stuff that cost 4x as much.
Having mentioned mirror lenses, are there any that you *would* recommend? Is there much difference between a big-name and not-so-big name when it comes to similarly-spec’d 500mm f/8 manual focus mirror lenses? :) 🇬🇧
I have not tried any mirror lenses yet. I have heard some are okay, but at least historically they have not been the sharpest telephotos. The other weird thing about them is the donut shaped bokeh. That said, there are people that enjoy using them, so I would keep looking into it as an option.
Well, I am no 3d printing pro, but I used PLA and it turned out fine. I need to print again at a higher quality, because it's quite a thin adapter with some fine details.
@@snappiness PLA is "Starter Filament" - don't let it get over 50 deg C in use, starts to sag. PETG prints with nearly the same settings, but handles more heat, good for motor mounts on RC aircraft. And if you want to mod your printer at expert mode, Nylon, Nylon with Fibreglass, and Nylon with Carbon Fibre, make prints that retain some flexibility and handle tempreatures under car hoods.
That's really impressive. AND even more impressive that you got the Pentax to work with it. Fantastic!
It does seem appealing. But honestly with the deluge of vintage tele-primes its a hard sell for me. I've got sigma and tamron's of various focal that are great. If TT added chips to make the lenses readable by the camera it would be a great reason to get one, as the vintage ones don't offer that.
I think you're thinking about it right. I don't think it offers much over a vintage telephoto, if you already got one you like. Also, if you have more pro level vintage telephotos, I think they would outperform this. This feels much better than the cheap older telephotos I've used, though. Sort of middle of the road, and a fair price for performance.
Just what I need for a casual trip to the grocery store.
For all your daily snapshot needs
Looks pretty cool. Don't let budget lenses fool you, many are up to the task if you are patient.
This is very true.
I have a Pentax K to Q manual adapter and after years not using it attempted to shoot the moon bolting on a Pentax-A 200mm F4 telephoto. It was not great, especially after using the Q/Q10 cameras with the gorgious Q 06 15-45 which acts like an 85-250mm lens. The 06 is my go to tele lens for travel, a tiny jewel!
Those native Q lenses really are quite good. An underrated system!
Boy I love this channel .... you do so much I did a few years ago when I had a tinkering craze combining anything and everything.
I tried the pentax q and an old russian MTO 1000mm lens and the results were insane
I have just bought the Kelda version of this lens but I haven't received it yet. I know that this version comes with a T2 mount ,meaning that it may be matched up with any camera so long as you can find a suitable adapter. I will be using mine with a Canon EOS mount + on my Olympus E3 and E30 Four Thirds cameras.
Superb, what a fun video.
In a few months I want to buy this EF mount lens for my 5Dmk3, but also to put it on my little canon M100. I'm looking for some light and solid tripod to use it hahaha.
I think it would be tremendously interesting to have such a “compact” combo with the M100.
Awesome video Snaps! Great images from that lens and Pentax Q . Impressive moon shots! Thanks for sharing!
I'm honestly surprised the chromatic aberration is so well-controlled for a 'budget' lens that long. Been wanting to build M645 & RZ67 to L mount adapters. I bought a mint condition Mamiya-Seikor C 500mm f/5.6 a couple months back for the Mamiya 645 system. It's about an ~877mm f/4 equivalent when mounted on full frame 35mm body. for a crazy low ~$220 (+$100 shipping from Japan.. lol. It). It is the "light-weight, semi-portable" option compared at ~2.2kg compared to the APO f/4.5 lens, which is a whopping 5.5kg (and extremely rare/expensive). Chromatic aberrations are about on-par with TTartisans lens, which is pretty impressive when you consider the age and size. That is, until you whack the 2x TC in front of it.. lol
Hmm... You reminded me, that I still have my frend's 1000mm mirror lens and original Pentax Q. Maybe I should give it a try.
Damn, can you find out when the 500mm is releasing publicly for X-Mount?
Love it!
Too bad it's not designed for older SLR mounts. That longer flange distance would have allowed for the use of a speed booster. So, lens, booster, MFT camera would have meant a 600mm'ish lens at about f4.5 - four ~$350. How cool what that be.
That would be cool. The design feels like it was inspired by a vintage SLR lens, and there's a lot of space before the rear element. So, I feel like it could've been made to work on SLRs... Too bad.
The Metabones adapter for the Pentax Q holds the worlds record on lens speed at F.666. You can still buy the adapter, it's out of stock atm.
I actually have a lens like that 😂 vintage zuiko 300mm f4.5. It is pretty good, use it on mft and it is better at 300 than the panasonic 100-300mm.
I just got in a Takumar 500mm f/5 that I’m going to attach to my original Q, it’s gonna be loads of fun. For clearer moon details, you might consider trying lucky imaging and stacking raw shots! Ian Norman on Lonely Speck recently did some moon shots with a Q and a 420mm scope and produced some incredible results with lucky imaging. Worth looking into. And yeah the Q line stabilization is a treat for photos but horrid for video 😂
I also love that you just casually made an X to Q adapter. I’ve been wanting to experiment with some 3D modeling to make some other custom adapters I had in mind
I checked out that video Ian made, fantastic work he does. I can't remember if it was you or someone else who told me about it. I was actually surprised by the video quality. I remembered it being terrible so my expectations were super low. I'm easy to please I guess. Too much time around really old cameras lately xD That 500mm Takumar sounds awesome!
It's very fun. I am an amateur, but enough now to get something to work even if it's not the best.
Love the XT1 without the leatherette, looks exactly the same as mine 😂
Saved quite a bit buying this one missing it in the back. Otherwise great condition camera.
1 minute in and I'm amazed! Yet again a great video!
this camera's crop factor is 4.55x which make the focal length *2275mm* !!!
if this is a pentax Q with a smaller 1/2.3 inch sensor then you got 3000mm which is equivalent to nikon coolpix p1000's maximum optical zoom
Have an old Sunagor 400mm f5.6 manual lens, Pentax K mount. I managed to find an adaptor for it to fit my old Nikon 1J1, and ended up with a similarly odd looking setup. Looks like a bazooka with a deck of cards stuck on the back. lol With the crop factor from the 1" sensor of 2.7 it gives reach of 1080mm. Very hard to handle manually and even on a tripod shakes around like crazy. The rotary focus throw on that old lens is a mile long, has to be close to 300 degrees of turn, so I'm not doing any songbird photos with it. Got a few decent shots of hummingbirds on the feeder though.
Not the perfect adapter😊. BUT you're the only photographer, youtuber i heard of even printing an adapter on your own!💪👍👍👍 that's enthusiam. Go on with your informative, honest and very entertaining videos. Another point is, me as a non native english speaker , its easy to understand you because of your clear and calm voice.
I've been binge watching your content the whole day. I have been very interested in old cameras lately after I found a Nikon Coolpix S3200, Kodak EasyShare M1063, Canon ixus 170, Sony handyman DCR SX21 and a very old Minolta autopak all lying around in the store room. I also had some other old cameras that I cannot find and am afraid that I threw out but can't remember, I remember having a mini dv Handycam that also supported SD card and also a VHS camera. I was wondering which camera should I get now, one of the Powershots that worked on AA batteries or a CCD Digital SLR.
this is nuts...I love it
Since the original launch I believe they released a canon ef and a Nikon f mount version.
Nikon J4 + FT1 + Nikkor 200-500mm + TC-14E III == 750-1900mm FOV + auto-focus + vibration reduction. This combo was disabled in software on the J5, unfortunately.
Don't even think about adding extension tubes.... 😎
750-1900 F/22 full frame equivalent. Horrible low light capability, and low IQ wide open.
1900mm must be fun to use tho.
Looks the same as my 100-300canon fd to a panasonic g85. It's huge haha
Awesome!
I did that too with a Q on a 400mm, it 's a bit of a hassle, but I atleast got a shot of a heron I was happy with.
I love that you do weird crap like this. Always enjoy your vids :)
I'm giving this lens some serious consideration for astrophotography.
Impressive, making your own adapter even if it wasn't 100%! Pity that Pentax gave up on the Q. It could be an interesting option for birders and others who want long tele, but can't pay for a more mainstream system.
I have a Q. Really cute camera in all white leatherette. Kinda gives that 60's go go vibe.
However, it isn't really very good as a camera. The sensor is just too small. It's undifferentiated from a cell phone cam. Mine is a shelf queen.
I think that's true in some senses, but the ability to mount lenses makes it quite different. For example, the standard prime and 06 can deliver beautiful bokeh even on the small sensor. The price hike of these recently makes them less appealing. It used to be easy to pick one up and a couple lenses for $100 a few years back.
At 24-28mm it's worse than phones. Above that is where the pentax gains the advantage. For example the 10x (230mm equivalent) prime lens on the s22/23 ultra is using a tiny 1/3.52 sensor lens with a narrow f4.9 aperture.
Meanwhile the variable 06 lens on the pentax (85-250mm on q/q10, 70-210mm on q7) has a narrower f2.8 aperture combined with a much bigger sensor at 1/2.3 (q10 & others) or 1/1.7 (q7) on the pentax.
So i tried my q10 with my sigma 150-600mm sp, focusing is hard w/o a tripod, the output is kinda usable. I also have an old 3x kenko teleconverter, but i havent tried it yet 😅
Thank you! I got an old Sony NEX-7 that I bought in July, and really enjoy it. I was looking for big telephoto lenses and found the cheapest at 700-900GBP..... yeaaaah... Currently unemployed, that's difficult for me..
I cannot describe the excitement I got when I saw that price of 275GBP on the website.... and the option for a Sony-E Mount!!! YES PLEASE!
Although I won't be able to afford it for a while, it being 75% cheaper then the other options is a massive win in my book. Means I've got something to look forward to when I can save up.
It seems like exactly the type of lens for your situation. What are you hoping to photograph with it? It was hard to focus on fast moving subjects, but for anything big or not moving the manual focus is smooth and pretty easy, especially with focus peaking on these mirrorless cameras.
@@snappiness mainly nature photography, but I also do street photography from time to time, and this would help me with me being shy lol.
It has autofocus functionality, right?
Hey man love your videos. I think you might be confused about magnification vs crop factor. If you set up a 4x5 camera and change the film back sizes, you'll quickly realize crop factor has nothing to do with magnification.... you're only changing where you 'place your border' so to speak.
The only thing that can change magnification is physical distance to the object or a change of focal length. It's a common misconception, even among some hardcore 'forum' guys, but if you've spent a few years doing macro photography with interchangeable film backs, you quickly realize this.
Crop factor has been used as a marketing term mostly, to fool people into thinking it has something to do with magnification, but it doesn't.
I'm with you, so maybe I am just using the wrong terms. I'm just referring to the equivalent field of view, like cropping into a photo 4x times, which like you said doesn't change the magnification. You can let me know how to be clearer.
Hey dude, yeah that sounds right to me. I think that lens is amazing though wowzer.@@snappiness
If you want to get close to the moon, I recommend a clean copy of a Nikkor 1000mm f/11 reflex mirror lens, which has no chromatic aberrations, but is painfully sharp, but is completely useless for anything other than astrophotography. You'll also need the absolute sturdiest tripod and 3-way tripod head and possibly a counterweight on your centre-column and a way to suppress the vibrations before shutter clicks. Wood is much better than metal for me.
To be honest with you, even then, the slightest wind outside amplifies the vibrations to the point of softening your picture (due to the mirror lens doubling the effective vibrations). I've finally come to the conclusion, to get pin-sharp astro pictures or videos, it's best to build your setup indoors with an open roof or have some sort of enclosure that completely blocks the wind from the sides.
Point being... at extreme macro distances and extremely long-focal lengths... you need specialized equipment or structures to cancel vibrations. It takes a lot of energy, which is why I don't do those things anymore. Hope this helps.
I have a old 500 mm F 8 - F32 TOU/FIVE STAR manuel focus lens I bought with K mount from the 1970's I bought it new for my Pentax film cameras it looks very similar to the new TT Artisan lens
A lot of these TTArtisan lenses seem to be inspired directly by certain vintage lenses. It wouldn't surprise me if the optical formula was very close to some.
Do you have a reference to compare it to in regard to vintage glass? I think the closest I can find that makes sense pricewise is a canon nFD 400mm f4.5, but if the optical quality of ttartisans is better, it would be a far better deal. Sadly all reviews I see online for this lens compare it to very expensive new lenses? which seems a bit unfair for what it’s trying to do.
It would be interesting on M43, at 1200mm equivalent. Although I am not going to spend $329 to find out! 😂
Oddly enough they haven't made an m43 mount version. That was one of my first thoughts as well.
The lens isn't available for M43 unfortunately and the current mounts are too close in flange distance for an adapter.
@@snappinessjust curious, with the available options here, are they any mount adpaters to M43 available? I don't mind buying the R mount version if there is an R to M43 mount adaptor available.
@@snappiness Strange, as M43 users are a big part of their customer base.
I have an adapter to mount my Pentax K-mount lenses (especially my DA 60-250 f4) on my Q (not Q7). To be honest, handheld it’s a waste of time. Aiming is almost impossible. I need an adapter to mount my red dot sight onto the hot shoe.
A video that would better have been titled "Tiny camera on epic lens!"
😆 It's really true.
You should take a video from that pentax camera like 5 or 10 minutes to do stacking in autostakkert, stack like best 25%, and you’ll get the sharper image than you think
a video of the moon*
I want to buy a CCD camera. I am very invested in both Olympus and Pentax cameras and systems. My question to you, am I better off buting and older Pentax DSLR with a CCD sensor, or should I buy a good digicam like the
olympus XZ-1??
btw have you tried d mount lenses on the pentax? theyre my favourite lenses ever but only this camera can use them correctly :)
I thought it would use a standard T mount with individual adapters for each mount, but I'm obviously wrong. That immediately shoots it down for me, as I'd want it for both L mount and MFT. I guess it's back to the Canon FDn 400mm f/4.5 that I once owned instead 🤣
There's quite a big of room before the rear element, so I feel like that would be possible... After they released that M42 lens recently I thought they might be doing that more. Would be cool.
Now put a 2x teleconverter on it.
Now make tiny lens and big camera
would like RAW file , no ne leaves RAW files for us to see , YT destroys the image
so wait... can you make adapter to use nikon z lens on fuji x body ? :O
That longitudinal chromatic aberration at 2:12 is roughh oof
Wish I could use it on my Olympus EM 1 2
"not great quality" .....video looks amazing.
I love your video, could you do the same thing but with a smartphone? Just wondering how you would go about mounting it to a smartphone. Was thinking of getting those telescope smartphone mounts and trying it out with this TTartisan 500mm lens. Anyways loved the video again!!
I've never delved into attaching things to smartphones. That would be a wild setup.
@2:22 impressively controlled ? , I watched Arthur R review of this lens and he said the color fringing is really bad and he showed it
I think it's a perspective thing. I'm comparing this to vintage telephotos I've used which are in the same price range, not pro lenses. For me it's not horrible and perfectly usable, even if not nearly as good as my more pro stuff that cost 4x as much.
Having mentioned mirror lenses, are there any that you *would* recommend? Is there much difference between a big-name and not-so-big name when it comes to similarly-spec’d 500mm f/8 manual focus mirror lenses? :) 🇬🇧
I have not tried any mirror lenses yet. I have heard some are okay, but at least historically they have not been the sharpest telephotos. The other weird thing about them is the donut shaped bokeh.
That said, there are people that enjoy using them, so I would keep looking into it as an option.
I would definitely recoomend a used triplet telescope over this lens. Way more sharpness, near zero CAs and price not much higher.
Wait, this new TTartisan telephoto lens also exist for Fujifilm??
Well, I got the pre-sample in Fuji X but then they haven't released it in that mount yet...
@@snappiness 👀👀
Awesome video as always!
I have a question do you have a recommendation for a photo editor software that is free ?
Dark Table and Rawtherapee are both free and good :)
@@snappiness will try them out 👍
Thanks for the advice :)
You need a QS1 ;)
wait so they made a fuji version but it's in testing phase ? that's why I cant buy it ?
I thought it would be released by now, but I guess they released the other mounts first. It's coming as far as I'm aware.
There is a sign on lens with exclamation, what's written there?
It warns not to carry it around by the tripod plate, just in case it gets loose and the lens drops.
can you show how to attach that len on the fuji x mount
This is a Fuji X mount lens. For some reason I was able to get a review copy one, but they aren't for sale yet?? I'm not sure.
i think the 500 f6.3 for x mount is not on the market yet
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I've wanted to try a Canon XL series lens in front of a Q..... What material suited the 3D print best?
Well, I am no 3d printing pro, but I used PLA and it turned out fine. I need to print again at a higher quality, because it's quite a thin adapter with some fine details.
@@snappiness PLA is "Starter Filament" - don't let it get over 50 deg C in use, starts to sag. PETG prints with nearly the same settings, but handles more heat, good for motor mounts on RC aircraft.
And if you want to mod your printer at expert mode, Nylon, Nylon with Fibreglass, and Nylon with Carbon Fibre, make prints that retain some flexibility and handle tempreatures under car hoods.
This lens is anything but epic... it's performance in almost everything is depressing
try nikon p900
i dont have 3d Pinter.
😂Size matters
Fine print - take pictures of your own children 😂