You're preaching to the choir, man. Every single thing that you say about manual focus lenses, especially on the street matches my experiences and was the way I worked for decades. I always said that a zone-focused lens will beat any autofocus lens everytime because no matter how fast the AF lens is, the zone-focused lens is ALREADY there. I transitioned from Leica M cameras to digital with Fujis, and really miss that ability to set a zone that can be seen just looking down at the DOF scale. With my AF Fujifilm lenses, set my camera to manual focus and set the focus-by-wire lens to a distance that works with my aperture, but just walking around will induce enough oscillations to move the focus distance, which you have no way of seeing on the exterior of the lens. The set it and forget it manual focus lens with comprehensive DOF scale rules on the street. One trick we used with that focus tab that you installed, it looked the same as those on our Leica lenses, is to practice focusing the lens by feel based on the position of the tab. Since you installed it, you can make the 6 O'clock position the best general zone by mating it to the lens after moving the distance to that zone. Now without looking, you can quickly rack the lens to the zone just by feel by moving the tab to the bottom or 6 O'clock position. Just one more way to speed up your process while still being in control. Question: I also have the X-Pro2, when you use this lens, does the OVF bring up the correct frame lines? Thanks for this video, really enjoyed it.
Thanks for the great tip about the focus tab, Albert. And thanks for watching! To answer your question, yes. In the setting you choose which focal length lens you have. This is a 25mm lens so I had to choose 24mm in the settings, but it’s close enough.
I've had this lens about 3 weeks, love it. Using it on an ancient Lumix G1, superb. Mainly street stuff so far. Manual focus for static subjects, otherwise zone focus. Works great. £69 here in UK
Hi Jason, I acquired this lens early December also to use with my X-Pro2. I was looking for a small light "wide-angle" and as I don't like wide-angles wider than 35mm equivalent, I was considering the Fuji 23mm f2. But I found it almost too big. And then I turned to TTArtisan which I knew because I already have their 50mm f1.2, great lens in my opinion by the way. Anyway, when I realized they had this 25mm f2 I went for it literally in a click ! Love it, love the smoothness of the distance ring and the hyperfocal scale. Manual lenses are where I come from anyway, so I feel like home. Thanks for your video, true photography talk as always !
Hi Joel, I also have the xpro2 and just bought the 50 f1.2 TTartisan to try it out but I cant seem to make it work with my xpro2. When I use this lens the shutter button does not work but when I swap back to fuji 18-55 everything works fine. Do I have to change some setting in my xpro2 so the TTartisan lens can work? Please help. Thanks
Please help. I have a 7artisans 25mm in a Lumix G7 (micro 4/3) the problem is that the meter scale is not accurate at all. Are those lenses better than mine on that issue?
I shoot at f8. So anything 5ft to infinity. If I have something suddenly happen close to me then I just pull my focus all the way to the stop. I have another video about the accuracy of this lens and how to achieve it.
Yo! I just picked up this lens today and i saw your vid. Did you find the focus scale on the lens to be accurate enough to use, or do you have a better method for zone/range focusing? Thanks!
You're preaching to the choir, man. Every single thing that you say about manual focus lenses, especially on the street matches my experiences and was the way I worked for decades. I always said that a zone-focused lens will beat any autofocus lens everytime because no matter how fast the AF lens is, the zone-focused lens is ALREADY there.
I transitioned from Leica M cameras to digital with Fujis, and really miss that ability to set a zone that can be seen just looking down at the DOF scale. With my AF Fujifilm lenses, set my camera to manual focus and set the focus-by-wire lens to a distance that works with my aperture, but just walking around will induce enough oscillations to move the focus distance, which you have no way of seeing on the exterior of the lens. The set it and forget it manual focus lens with comprehensive DOF scale rules on the street.
One trick we used with that focus tab that you installed, it looked the same as those on our Leica lenses, is to practice focusing the lens by feel based on the position of the tab. Since you installed it, you can make the 6 O'clock position the best general zone by mating it to the lens after moving the distance to that zone. Now without looking, you can quickly rack the lens to the zone just by feel by moving the tab to the bottom or 6 O'clock position. Just one more way to speed up your process while still being in control.
Question: I also have the X-Pro2, when you use this lens, does the OVF bring up the correct frame lines?
Thanks for this video, really enjoyed it.
Thanks for the great tip about the focus tab, Albert. And thanks for watching! To answer your question, yes. In the setting you choose which focal length lens you have. This is a 25mm lens so I had to choose 24mm in the settings, but it’s close enough.
I've had this lens about 3 weeks, love it. Using it on an ancient Lumix G1, superb. Mainly street stuff so far. Manual focus for static subjects, otherwise zone focus. Works great. £69 here in UK
Totally agree. I use the same camera and lens and I love the combination.
I like it so much I sold all my Fuji lenses. It’s literally the only lens I own.
Hi Jason, I acquired this lens early December also to use with my X-Pro2. I was looking for a small light "wide-angle" and as I don't like wide-angles wider than 35mm equivalent, I was considering the Fuji 23mm f2. But I found it almost too big. And then I turned to TTArtisan which I knew because I already have their 50mm f1.2, great lens in my opinion by the way. Anyway, when I realized they had this 25mm f2 I went for it literally in a click ! Love it, love the smoothness of the distance ring and the hyperfocal scale. Manual lenses are where I come from anyway, so I feel like home. Thanks for your video, true photography talk as always !
Thanks so much for watching and commenting. I’m looking forward to checking out more of their lenses.
Hi Joel, I also have the xpro2 and just bought the 50 f1.2 TTartisan to try it out but I cant seem to make it work with my xpro2. When I use this lens the shutter button does not work but when I swap back to fuji 18-55 everything works fine. Do I have to change some setting in my xpro2 so the TTartisan lens can work? Please help. Thanks
@@mykieangelo8044 did you turn on the “shoot without lens” setting?
I’m new to photography 😊 so glad to come across your channel 😊
Thank you 😊
Very nice of you to say!
Nice monochromes! Yeah, TTArtisan makes some good manual focus lenses. Every time I have one on my Pen-F, people ask me if that is a film camera. 😉
Thank you!
The 3 marking on this lens is in metric 3M is in meters so the distance in feet is more like 10 feet.
That’s correct.
Please help. I have a 7artisans 25mm in a Lumix G7 (micro 4/3) the problem is that the meter scale is not accurate at all. Are those lenses better than mine on that issue?
@@TheDiosCid I’m not sure, but a solution would be to find accurate and practice working that zone.
Hi. What focus distance do you use and what f/stop do you use? Happy New Year. (PS - I have the same lens, but I haven't tried zone focussing yet...)
I shoot at f8. So anything 5ft to infinity. If I have something suddenly happen close to me then I just pull my focus all the way to the stop. I have another video about the accuracy of this lens and how to achieve it.
Yo! I just picked up this lens today and i saw your vid. Did you find the focus scale on the lens to be accurate enough to use, or do you have a better method for zone/range focusing? Thanks!
Yes, I’d say it’s accurate. I’d be happy to make a detailed video of the process if that would be beneficial.