TTArtisan 100mm f/2.8 Bubble Bokeh lens review
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For the M42 screw mount adapters, there are little holes in the adapter where you can use a hex wrench to adjust the placement of the lens on the Mount. That is how you center the f-stop controls and depth of field section. The reason is different manufacturers lenses screw on at different points like Zeiss Jena lenses vs Takumars.
M42 to F from K&F Concept is not meant to be adjusted. It has glass in it and just one small phillips set screw, which may not be for adjustment. Their M42 to RF comes with an allen wrench for adjusting with its 3 set screws.
@@williamgollatz1911 Interesting but odd. I do not know which model of M42 to FX adapter you are using but why would it have glass in it? Do not FX cameras have a short enough of a flange distance for M42 lenses to reach infinity focus?
The only time I have seen glass for an adapter is to correct for infinity focus, is some type of teleconverter/telecompressor combo, or the glass is used some other optical compensation.
@@robert18productions I corrected my reply for F mount for Nikon. Its F mount part, but recent DSLR is a FX mount. There are actually two versions of the M42 adapter for F. The deeper one I got, with some glass is designed for "infinity" focus. I believe it helps lenses that might need some extra space. The flange is a little deeper. I presume the glass is there to compensate for the extra length. If I set the 100mm f/2.8 to infinity focus, the interior barrel (I don't know the part names) comes out maybe half a millimeter beyond the threads of the lens. I supposed this adapter is designed for lens that might go father.
I will say that on my F mount Nikon, the centerline is way off. Just for aesthetics, I'd rather an adapter that can be adjusted. The M42-Nikon F adapters from K&F can't be adjusted. The non infinity focus adapter is just a flange.
I ordered one a few days ago. For around 150 dollars, it will be a good one trick pony for those times I want the bubble effect. This holiday season should be fun when using it.
Do you think you'll ever check out the Sigma 180mm and Sigma 150mm F/2.8 macro?
M42 makes a lot of sense for a low budget lens. Completely universal without losing anything, because it's manual anyway and can be adapted to any camera incredibly cheaply. Massively cheaper to produce. Cheap to adapter. Quite clever really.
You kind of have to be in vintage lenses to really understand how clever it is ! It is most likely marketed to vintage lenses enthusiasts who most likely already have their M42 adapter !
Yes, the market for this lens are people already into manual lenses, and the vast majority of them already have a m42 adapter. The line about market demand is probably from the old language barrier.
@@zwete well, there is market demand for the original Trioplan - and that one's M42 as well.
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It should be noted that this is completely expected. This lens purposefully uses an optical design that was patented in 1893, the Cooke triplet. It's kind of amazing it performs as well as it does. It's a lens intended for people who know this, kind of like that Petzval lens you reviewed all these years ago. Except this one is affordable.
Is it a Cooke triplet or rather a Trioplan? I'm not sure.
@@itimonium9062 Are they not the same thing?
It's funny that you don't at all understand one of the most popular vintage mounts, or the optical lens design, but great that you enjoyed it for what it is all the same.
It feels exactly what we vintage lovers want from a lens, but sharper. Even that wide open centre sharpness is more than we typically get from the actual old stuff. It's going to be a great lens for a lot of people.
and the original it is based on being so expensive, it's a huge deal on price. Though you can get other, similar lenses for half as much, they won't quite be the same.
This is a lovely and welcome edition for creative boke lovers. Now if TTArtisans could clone the Biotar 75mm F/1.5 next that'll be great. And while I do realize there is already a russian clone of it called the Helios 40. I'd like to see if TTArtisans could do a better job at it or even improve upon it with a higher MTF and reduced weight. If they can do that and sell it for $250.00 I'm sure it will sell like hotcakes. And please make it M42 for the film lovers as well as E-mount so we can keep the lens more compact without an adapter.
I've always wanted a Trioplan, but I couldn't justify the $1K+ cost of one. At a mere tenth of the price, this one's a steal, and I ordered mine yesterday.
1k? I got the original for 350
Vintage m42 mount lenses has become really popular lately, so I think the market demand comes from people who are interested in quirky lenses like this probably have a m42 adapter already, and maybe for several different cameras too?
This. And having only 1 version makes production a heck of a lot cheaper as well. And less risk to get stuck with a few odd versions of the lens.
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No, Chris, it's not that. It's just that the lens can be very easily adapted and there has been a general revival in film shooting, I would absolutely use this with a film camera. If they released this in only modern mounts (Sony E etc.) they'd miss out on vintage lens enthusiasts who are the most likely to appreciate the triplet bokeh balls. It makes a lot of sense.
I kinda wish they'd also made one in L39. That mount is truly in need of decent newly made lenses. Thankfully Voigtlander is stepping up there.
@@Skipsul try also Light Lens Lab - I have their Elcan 50/2 and it's superb with Canon P, makes me wanna get their collapsible Summicron too.
I bought this lens because of the m42 mount. I hate buying lenses that i can't adapt to a film camera.
The M42 mount actually makes a lot of sense: by using a helicoid adapter one gets the possibility to turn the lens to a macro lens without the tedious adding or removing of extension rings. Very clever and very economical.
It's a copy of the 100mm f2.8 trioplan. Most of the originals, are in m42 mount, which is probably why TTArtisan, made it in m42 mount (bear in mind, most people buying the old ones, which is the biggest market for this lens are buying it in m42 mount. This TTArtisan lens is actually good value, because the old originals now sell at ridiculous prices, and the new ones from the resurrected badge, Meyer-Optik Gorlitz are just ridiculously priced for a one trick pony lens, with only 3 elements. The optical performance, seems the same as the old originals and newer copies. I might get one at some time, as I've seen some really nice wildflower photography done with them. But as I say, they're a one trick pony, shooting wide open at f2.8 where there are lots of specular highlights in the background. At other apertures, you might as well use a better lens, and add some post effects, if you want to make look low contrast.
This lens is inspired by the Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Trioplan. It appears to be better performing than my 1959 Trioplan, and at about half the price.
My Exakta mount Trioplan only has 6 aperture blades, where as this one has 13. So I get hexagonal bokeh balls with my old lens when I stop down.
This lens is a bokeh toy, for close up shots. For that you need extension. Extension tubes are extremely limiting in so many ways, so many of us use helicoid adapters for M42 lenses. That's what you can do with this lens, reduce it's MFD significantly and get closer to macro territory. That's way more useful than having this lens in E, Z or whatever mount. I wish all my manual lenses were M42. Actually, I didn't care to buy some modern lenses because they aren't.
Thanks for this review- this lens has some interesting properties and I may have to give it a look.
M42 is, as you say, pretty easy to adapt to anything, and it's a standard that a lot of manufacturers used over the years. When shopping for vintage lenses, especially from third parties, I tend to seek out the M42 version for use on multiple digital and film bodies, and this TTArtisan optic would fit right into my collection.
Looks like a copy of the meyer görlitz 100mm f2.8 for m42
Same thought 👍
Love how TTArtisan release affordable and unique lenses of a decent quality.
Amen to that, they are ma favorite lens company, alongside Venus Optics.
This lens will mostly appeal to users of vintage lenses, which are commonly M42 mount. They would mostly already have M42 adapters for their chosen cameras.
I bought this lens and waiting for arrival
Pinch caps pop off too easily and cheap to buy yourself. I LOVE TTARTISAN’S metal SCREW IN LENS CAPS.
A copy of the Meyer Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100 F2.8 which costs 3 times as much.
Its just a NEW vintage lens. Us vintage lens shoots love m42 mount as its so easy adapt.
You should have put effort in obtaining the bubbles instead talking about useless usages of the lens
What is wrong with screw on lens caps? They are more secure than clip on ones that can fall off and I have almost lost a few clip on lens caps as they have fallen off my lenses when I thought they were secure. I never thought I'd see a new lens with the M42 screw mount. I have been thinking recently of getting a few M42 screw mount lenses and adapting them to get artistic photos with, but I won't be getting this lens though as usually if I am looking for a new lens, it has to have sharp enough image quality and good image quality in the corners as well and good contrast.
I find the disdain for screw in lenscaps quite funny. I feel the same way about most clip in caps. I always manage to attach them kinda wonky, resulting in them falling off in my bag and in worst case laying rubbing against the glass. I've installed screw ins on all my lenses now :)
Same here. I have almost lost a few clip on lens caps. Once someone came up to me with a lens cap and asked if I had dropped one and I found I did and didn't notice. Sure screw in caps take a little longer to take on and off, but it's worth it to have the security of not having one fall off the lens when properly screwed in.
For some vintage lenses users sharp corners are simply undesirable.
Lens mounts comes and goes, M42 stays along 😊 I have ordered one to compare against the original Meyer Optic trioplan. The new Ttartisan looks promising endeed.
Looks lika a clone of the helios 44m. Which in fact also a clone of the zeiss lens 😂
im using a bubble bokeg filter 77mm on my lens same effect
Christopher, thanks always for your videos! This lens looks like a bad copy of the super takumar 105mm 2.8 XD
there's a really popular 100mm meyer-optik trioplan lens for the m42 mount which I think ttartisan is trying to capture the market share from
Looks like you could adjust the position of the lens graphics and controls by loosening the grub screws on that Laina adapter.
See those little holes around the m42 lens adapter? Those are holes for hex screws, in fact your adapter should have come with a tiny wrench for them. You can loosen them slightly and then adjust the position of the mount so that the lens sits correctly. I guess even an established photographer is still learning.
Calling someone daft because they rarely adapt lenses from a 70 year old mount system is a bit much, isn’t it?
@@Augnos Not really, he could have easily read the instructions that came with the adapter and avoided it entirely.
No instructions with the adaptor hehe@@djchips
I have ordered the lens given it's affordable price and will enjoy playing with the bokeh. I believe this is an homage to the Meyer Optik Trioplan 100 f2.8 that sells on e-bay for a thousand dollars or so. I'm interested to see if there is magic in the old German glass, or just the lens configuration. We shall see. I appreciated your technical tests to temper my expectations. Some uncommon results. Great video, very informative!
1k? For 1K you can get the new remake, i paid 350 for the original
After that I love my "classic" Sigma 105mm f/2.8 Macro even more. 🧐
Another point I should bring up is that the lens adapter can really matter in terms of sharpness. If the inside of the adapter is reflective it can cause reflections decreasing contrast. If the fallange distance is too short or too long, it can either focus a bit past infinity or not reach infinity. As a result it can affect the depth of field markings on the lens. Another issue is the width of the adapter, this can cause the lens to loose image quality especially in the corners.
Then again I think this lens uses a triplet design which is one of the oldest lens designs. Famously used in the Meyer Optik Trioplan and Cooke Triplet lenses. The design was often used for cheap lenses and is similar to the Tessar design where it becomes sharp around f/3.5.
Chris, as many others pointed out it seems to be a clone of the vintage Meyer Goerlitz Trioplan 100 f2.8. I own an old silver trioplan, and seems the image quality of the original and the clone is quite similar. Wonder if you are going to have a side by side IQ comparison video later? The old Trioplan is quite overpriced, but the new version is just over-overly overpriced, even if IQ is supposed to be much better. So, then would be nice to see how this clone compares to the 'original' ones. Thanks for your videos, really enjoy watching them, they are also very useful and informative!
Are they still releasing lenses for the other vintage mounts? I had a Canon FTb QL and I wanted something wider than 28mm, but when typing into google only expensive vintage 24mm's showed up. Now it's much easier to make a reasonably sharp wide angle lens, but are they releasing any for FD?
I believe this is the first m42 lens to release in quite a while.
Definitely lens is worth considering. It does mainly what is advertised for, and it is quite decent for such a price. If you wanna have sharpness from edge to edge, close down the aperture. Perhaps should have more example photos of bobble bokeh. Tnx.
3:04 Wait, so are they on or not?
They were off, sorry
This Trioplan lens is playing very well on Olympus M5 II M43 camera along with another triplet - Industar 50-2 (Tessar). Very seldom vintage design lenses which are playing nicely on M43 cameras. Probably due very high central sharpness / resolution and still unique vintage 3D rendering. I wish Chinese lens manufactures could make more affordable old vintage design lenses. Particularly waiting for good Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 75mm f/1.5, Leica Summilux 50mm f1.4 and maybe Leica Noctilux 75mm 1.25 replica designs.
Yes Tessar bokeh is also very nice, but it is not triplet. They added one glass (lens) more.
Well almost one. Was not talking about bokeh though. Just general sharpness and rendering. For bokeh I normally use full frame Sony A7R II and Samyang 135mm f2 or Jupiter 9
Anyone looking at buying one of these should just save yourself some money and pick up a Kaleinar-5N 100mm f2.8 - sharper (from the looks) and cheaper.
This lens does exactly what the samples and tests here says it does. It is a specialty lens for certain effects. Outside that range it may be undesirable for other uses. I do not use it for bubbles and find them hard to create in my use cases. I use it for tight portraits for a softer effect.
The lens gives three effects that I use, all aperture related.
At f/2.8, soft glow that wipes out the pores and tiny wrinkles in harsher, older faces, at f/3.5, the glow is lessened a bit and is more usable for cleaner younger faces, f/4 to 16 it is a normal sharp lens with softer corners, the out of focus areas do not take on the shape of the aperture blades. I have no need of this lens for anything else as I have contrastier lenses for other uses.
At 3.5 it is similar in character to my Zuiko 100mm 2.8 at f/2.8 in the softening effect, at f/4 the Zuiko is normal in contrast again.
Softer does not mean less sharp. You can see the detail, but it is under a veil of glow. Not as much as some lenses at f.95 or at the max opening of some other fast lenses. You can see the individual hair in the subject but each hair is surrounded by a spread of light we call glow. At f/3.5 that spread is less, at f/4 it is gone. It is this spread that lowers the contrast in wrinkles, spots and pores that makes this desirable to me for my use. It is not the same as using a filter. Close but not the same. I can also achieve some of this in DXO using the contrast and micro contrast controls but it is not the same.
You just have to play with it and see where it fits in your use. Not for everyone. But Cheap enough to try.
This is one of three TTartisans lenses that i have.
The 35mm f/2 is an all metal tank, as they say. A good walk around lens for me as I can carry the weight. I have carried far heavier. Nothing wrong with it. Just a normal lens for normal pics.
The 50mm f/1.2 is a nice but cheap lens without the plasticky feeling that you would think you would get for the price. I use it for the effect it gives for upper body portraits. It is unique on full frame since the sensor coverage is really for an APSC lens. Swirly bokeh and darkened corners. Not for closeup portraits, not for every lighting scheme, not for every subject, but it is there when the use case arises. That is what I feel these lenses are for...For me.
The m42 mount makes perfect sense. Perfectly usuable on multiple systems with the right adapter. This lens is made to minic the now extremely rare and difficult to procure MOG Trioplan 100 2.8. It's a lens which is full of character and never meant for pixel peeping and charts measuring corner sharpness.
A lot of same design same picture used lenses on the market, why buy this one for more price? Anyway there are some very nice AF 135's, like my Canon 135/2.8 SF
I was literally searching for info on this when I got the upload notification. Thank you for your hard work and knowledge. 😊
This lens was delivered to my door last week for 127USD. It shoots way above its weight/cost. Want sharp edged corners...look elsewhere...this lens is not about that...nor should it be. It's main purpose is portraits, and creating bokeh backgrounds. In the right light...f/2.8 will do...but you might as well just shoot at f/3.5 to f/4...contrast and nice color saturation. This is an old design and modern engineering improves it, but is also constrained by the design. You have to watch the direction of the light...get that right...everything falls into place.
Btw...if you enjoy B&W...this lens will reward you.
Well, why not! But if you look carefully, you will find for €20, a vintage lens, for example, Panagor 100 mm 2.8 which offers better quality and performance. Up to you.
I love that you're reviewing such an affordable lens. This lens release just so happens to come out just as I'm finally ready to explore the Helios lenses. I wonder how it compares to the Helios 85mm f/1.5? I know it's two different worlds but would be fun to see a comparison to something that was released when the demand for M42 was because that's what was available vs that's what's affordable. Cheers!
The market demand: it's hard to find 105/2.8 and 135/2.8 for as cheap as they used to go for a few years ago.
This still costs more even before you get an adapter but you're at least not buying from some rando and risk giving your camera the optics equivalent of athlete's foot or expired bread.
I just come across this release from TT artisan and I was surprised how clever I found it all. People looking for more 'arty' lenses to get a different look than everyone else have been looking at vintage lenses for a few years now. M42 means they don't need production for all the current lens mounts, those looking for this look probably already have an adapter and, if not, they are easy to get. Its funny how some simple photos with the 'bubble bokeh' will get a lot of 'wow how did you do that' comments.
A little sad its not a bit sharper/contrasty across the frame at f2.8, but I guess they just straight took the old optical design with no modern updates. But I guess thats why they can offer it at the price, make it expensive and even those looking for this look might turn away. Offering cheap lenses with more arty rendering looks like a great niche for them to take advantage of I think. I haven't ordered one yet, but I'm really tempted (hence the browsing for videos on it :D).
Around 3:00 you say image corrections are turned on for this test, but the text says they are off. Later looking at distortion you say remember image corrections are turned off. Maybe your first call for corrections being on is an error?
Ps if they are turned on how does the camera know how / what to adjust for the lens ? Could kinda understand it if you downloaded libraries of lenses with their optical qualities but ... doesn't happen right?
I mean, the lens is fully manual so I don't think there are any official correction profiles. Even if there were, the camera would not be able to dial them in automatically since there is not electronic connection.
It is irrelevant whether or not the camera setting for lens corrections is on or off, because the lens itself and the dumb adapter are purely manual - there is no correction information to be had. It can only be done in editing software, once a lens profile has been created.
Oops, just a typo. Corrections were turned off.
Hi, not sure why you would turn camera corrections on for the contrast / sharpness test. It has no electrical connection to the body, so I don‘t know what the body would correct? Using M42 sounds more logical to me than building one of these for each possible mount - just get the adapter for your body and be done with it. I wish more manual-only manufacturers would do this, that way you could take all those new manual lenses with you when you switch from one make to another!
It's the 21st century, nanotechnology, and M42 thread lenses are being produced...
As a M42 shooter, who recently found a Zenit TTL in a drawer, new lenses would definitely be of some interest. I already have a Tair 11a, to which this lens is clearly inferior.
The loss of contrast at f/2.8 is no joke. But there is a massive improvement at f/3.2. Almost looks like f/4.
just tonight i realized i misplaced my m42 adapter when i wanted to shoot with it 😤 spent an hour looking for it and still can't find it...
This is the best channel for lens tests.
Since Micro Four Thirds has a smaller sensor, could you also place a sharpness test field in the area where the corner of the image would be on MFT?
Reason for M42 is so obvious: it means to be adapted to leica M and then use techart autofocus adapter!
Why not use M mount in the first place? Because they don't want to bother focus coupling!
I am using the lens with an cheap rubber lens hood, which I can press back for storage! Doesn't look good, but it helps a lot!
M42 is perfect. I buy old lenses from time to time, and i absolutely prefer M42 if i have a choice. The adapters are cheap, easy to use, and you can adapt such a lens to almost anything. So i have no problem with new lenses using this mount.
this could be a fun alternative to the Helios 44-2
Many thanks for this interesting and funny review. I ordered the lense this week (only for the bubble bokeh) and i think the price is very fair. Best regards from South-Germany.
I understand that TTArtisan did their market research and found that there is a demand for a Trioplan 100mm/2.8 clone at a low price point. The M42 mount will not keep anyone away who is interested in dabbling with bubble bokeh. If I didn't already have a Trioplan, I'd probably get this lens!
M42 is great because you can put it on literally any camera
Are there other modern m42 lenses like this but with a different focal length?
good review dude!
i like how TT- and 7artisan have the guts to make. lenses. like this,
The domiplan 50mm is a hmfavirite lens of mine famous for its bubble bokhe...
Too bad they're not available in APSC
You forget to mention the price, and your comments recommend it or not
It’s fun hearing you said that what the heck😂
The best thing about this lens is that you can use it on medium format cameras up to a Pentax 67 with some DIY skills.
M42 mount film cameras have a large flange focal distance. Its only really Nikon F mount that is longer, so the lenses are easily adapted to most DSLRs as well as mirrorless. I adapt M42 mount Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50/2.8 and Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Lydith 30/3.5 lenses to my Nikon Z6 and theyre so much fun, and give very unique character.
I dont know whether this TT Artisan is a direct optocal copy of the Trioplan (it looks like they've coaxed extra sharpness from the 19th century Cooke Triplet design) but the bokeh definotely has similar bokeh. I'd love to try this lens on some flowers close-up with the sun bouncing off some dew in the background - circumstances like that is where this lens excels... it's actually quite a smart move from TT Artisan
M 42 made me laugh, BUT, for now probably 10 to 13 years I watch photography channels proposing the use of analogue lenses and film photography! And for quite some time mirrorless cameras make it so much easier! And with M 42 you can use the old Petzval lenses! I myself plan to get a mirrorless and turn her into a "cyborg" with old Zuikos and Minolta MD Rokkors ;-)
Lovely. I have always wanted a MOG Trioplan 100 (I collect MOG and other vintage Lenses) but people have wanted silly money for them on Ebay. This might be TT Artisans best idea yet. Let's hope they are 'inspired by' other classic (and very overpriced on ebay) vintage lens designs soon. This isn't a lens for sharpness-obsessed pixel peepers - its for 'character' and using it for what it is good at.
And old Nikon 18-55 has extra rings compared to this lens, and that's considered a piece of trash, i don't see the appeal on making the background look busy, unless it's swirly.
Oh no! What year is it?
I recently discovered that chromatic abberations are mostly green en Magenta but sometimes blue en yellow. What i find interesting is that those are the same colors which you can adjust under the white ballance in Lightroom. Is that a coincidence or is there a link?
Chromatic aberration is basically stray light, so the most common colors of CA would be the ones that affect the wb of the image, the rf135L has red CA
Probably has to do with the fact that conventional lenses are usually designed to focus red and blue light on the same plane. Aberrations differ slightly for every individual wavelength however.
Love your lens reviews. Please review the new Panasonic Lumix budget primes (35mm, 50mm & 85mm) and 24-105 F4 lens
I have heard from a TT Artisans dealer that this lens will soon be released with a Leica M mount as well.
It’s great that TT Artisans are producing special effects lenses. It could be a successful line for them instead of trying to produce outstanding optics at a very low price.
I've ordered straight from TTArtisans, at £125 inc delivery I'll give it a go. I am able to get bubble bokeh with my Lensbaby Velvet 85 tho so I don't anticipate keeping it unless it really grabs me. They are on back order now so I'm obviously not alone at wanting to give this a shot!
M42 mount can be mounted on Canon DSLR cameras with adapter is a good opportunity for those who have full frame canon dslr
Can you review the new Mitakon t1.0 series? I want to buy them, but I’m not sure how well they perform in full frame, I love your reviews!
I LOVE M42 Mounts! And C-Mount. They are simply the most versatile mount ever.
Well, shoot! A few months ago I managed to grab a cheap Trioplan 100mm, which is in a rather sad condition, and now this comes out 🙃
I think you answered your own questions there😄 M42 mount can be adapted to pretty much anything.
I'd say the MiR and the Helios popularity for their unique looks has really made it prominent again.
This lens is essentially a copy of the Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm F2.8. The demand for the original Trioplan lens has been so great that Meyer-Optik Gorlitz released a new version that sells for about $1,000. At $150 the TTArtisan version is hoping to cut into that market.
@marksieving7925 It certainly will cut into that market. I don't see too many photographers eager to spend that kind of money for a MF lens with no weather sealing. Even buying the older used copies for $600.00 is a bit much. If they wanted to make a good comeback they would have sold the MKII version for $350.00 tops. It's a hard sell at $1,000.00. When you could invest in a nice kit of vintage lenses for that price with arguably better boke. I also learned that this Chinese copy outperforms it. I'd be curious to see if they can clone the Biotar 75mm.
@@princeharbinger If this lens is a commercial success, I can see the Chinese lens makers cloning a lot of vintage lens designs.
@marksieving7925 That'll be a good thing. Hopefully, some of the big brands take the hint and start redesigning lenses with some of these characters that we love from the old lenses.
One mount to fit them all. And film photography getting so many new fans, there are tons of Pentax Spotmatic to be used with a new lens.
This kind of lenses made your contents are more fun! The result is unexpected from what I'd imagine
5:02 The lens characteristics compliment the image perfectly!!
Here is a question, does using a full frame camera in APSC mode change the bokeh you get?
Alternatly, will using a full frame lens give larger bokeh on an APSC sensor?
Given you stay at the exact same distance, yes, the details in the bokeh will get larger. Though they are always larger on an APSC-camera, regardless of the lens type. (Though, again, only if you stay at the same distance.)
If you adjust composition for the crop factor (by moving away from the subject) then I'm not really sure what the end result would be in terms of size of the bokeh compared to full frame, but it would be noticeably less creamy, since the higher distance increases your depth of field.
After getting the 40mm F2.8 macro, i do have to agree, screw in caps make you not want to use the lens unless you really have to.
Kase make a pair of magnetic rings which will readily convert this cap. Yes, a plastic cap is cheaper.
Strongest effect on full frame, but really how reduced is the bubble effect on APS-C?
I have the same question.
Vintage lenses and M42 is so popular now. I'm really flabbergasted by your remark. And this is the usual output look of the lenses. Most also didn't have a hood
So it's a hipster lens.
@@aliendroneservices6621 get some vintages lenses and you will understand 😉
i was waiting for this
best reviews as always
great colors too!
Excellent lens!
Thanks!
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As much as I admire and celebrate smaller companies doing competitively prices products and come up with interesting ideas, I POSITIVELY DO NOT see the point of making and releasing lenses as bad as this one that no one can really use for all practical manners. Any sort of acceptable IQ at stake is ground zero with something like this. And worse, coming out with products like this utterly destroys the manufacturer's reputation.. at least as far as I'm concerned that puts them instantly in the category of not taking them seriously. I see a lens performing like this and I stay from the brand permanently and resolutely all together because, if their optics are already as bad as this out of the box, just wait till the mechanics' reliability (or lack of) kick in, in no time once you actually start using them. These lenses will fall apart worth of oils spills, funguses, dust and stuck aperature/focus mechanisms in no time flat on top of genetically pointless horrid performance. What's the point? I guess for some there is one as people keep buying them and the manufacturer keeps making them. Affordable Trioplan or not, no thanks. And thank you as always for your informative videos that save sensible people from throwing their money out the window :)
I wish more manual focus lenses came in M42 mount. You can not only get adapters to use them on mirrorless models you can get m42 - some (I have Canon RF) with the adapter including a helical focus mount allowing closer focus than the lens alone can do. It is great when lensmakers compute new designs that actually make use of the shorter flange focal length but when they are just making things that will focus to infinity on old DSLR's, the space may as well be put to good use rather than just giving us a longer empty tube. TTArtisan seems to prefer lenses with poor sharpness at wide apertures or even at any aperture. I returned my TTArtisan 21mm f/1.5 a couple years ago for exactly that reason. I love my Laowa 105 f/2 STM. It allows the user to chose sharp or not and degrees of 'character' rather than following the 'fuzzy is fine' theory. I'm glad we have third party makers who specialize in things that only a few will actually want. We have come a long way since the days when the arty crowd smeared Vasoline on their UV filter edges.