TTArtisan APS-C 35mm f/1.4 : Specifications and Opinions

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Tzeol

sent on 06 Giugno 2025

Pros: Very pleasant aesthetic appearance, very robust construction, small size and weight, negligible price compared to performance. The bokeh is very pleasant!!! Blur abundantly and nicely

Cons: ... really... I didn't find any.

Opinion: Aesthetically very beautiful, it gives an excellent feeling of robustness. Even the manual MAF is not too difficult: once you get the hang of it a little you get it right better and more frequently: at f4 you hardly miss a shot. Sharpness is acceptable from 1.4 to f2, it becomes good at f2.8 and, in my opinion, very good from f4 onwards. It gives really beautiful colors and bokeh: I don't really understand on the basis of what unknown optical principle, but I can guarantee that compared with the 50mm Nikkor afs, both closed at f2.8, the 35 ttartisan (despite being an APS C lens) "detaches" the planes much more than the 50 nikon for FF ... This, of course, on the basis of "skin" sensations.... which, however, are often the most "right" ones

Bergat

sent on 09 Agosto 2023

Pros: price

Cons: It seems to me that the focus ring for manual focus, is with too short travel. Embarrassing image quality at open apertures

Opinion: For Fuji it is not the most desirable. Better to spend more to have something usable more easily. After all, the quality leaves much to be desired if diaphragms below 5.6 are used. If you then consider that at closed apertures the image quality tends to deteriorate, you can connote this lens as a toy, but nothing more

Vinnywhite

sent on 08 Agosto 2023

Pros: Dimensions/weight, construction, cost

Cons: Nobody.

Opinion: Surprising lens with negligible cost. Let's start with the price: it costs like an original battery. Very small size, smaller than fuji 23mm f / 2 but the mechanical construction is very good, feels good in the hand, very fluid fire ring and clicked diaphragm ring. The only aspect that could be improved, given the need for manual focusing, would be the stroke of the same, too short especially from 3m to infinity. Cmq with the peaking and the generous viewfinder of the xt I have no major problems to focus and even at full aperture, in portraits, I can have the precise focus on the eye. What satisfied me most is the optical yield as a whole, color rendering, sharpness, bokeh are very good even not considering the ridiculous price at which it is sold. If we then consider the cost, then the judgment can only be excellent. Taken for fun, I find myself using it very often and not just for "play". The minimum focusing distance is also good. A lens absolutely to own if you want to try your hand at manual focus.

Sadhu

sent on 24 Ottobre 2022

Pros: small - light - price RICE - excellent mechanics - three-dimensionality

Cons: nobody

Opinion: a lens from which I had no expectation. I had bought a Fujifilm, and I needed something to put in front of it to see how it was going. In order not to spend 3-400 euros unnecessarily for on native goal, I opted for this: 60 euros new. Never choice was more guessed. I found myself with a small, light lens, with excellent mechanics, pleasant to the touch and that returns an optical quality that you would NEVER expect from 60 euros invested. Clearly at full aperture it is soft and vignette, and it is also right that it is so, otherwise you can not even give a minimum of effect to your shots. Low contrast, but with the right light a three-dimensional effect that once again, I would never have expected. At F2 it is already great, the edges are no longer so soft and the blur remains good, three-dimensionality still good, contrast greatly improved. F4 personally goes a bomb. And in all this it is also coated, I do not know if multi, but coated it is. For 60 euros. Crazy. Value for money among the best ever observed, indeed as far as I'm concerned never seen before. Vote? Well, give me the heretic, but even if it is not as emblazoned as Zeiss or Leica, I give my 9.5 to him all, because of the price, which is a factor that we can not ignore when thinking about buying a new photographic tool.

Geryko84

sent on 10 Maggio 2022

Pros: Character, three-dimensionality, construction, price

Cons: Maybe the flare at the maximum opening but, at the end of the day, I like it.

Opinion: Goal purchased for about 80 euros, worth at least double. Excellent build quality, all metal, perfect rings, mini size. Image quality above expectations. The center of the frame is, in my opinion, very sharp. A bit of leakage on the edges and ac to the most open apertures but it is obvious for a lens of this price. There seems to be a more "net" drop in quality between f1.8 and f1.4 then from 1.8 upwards the general quality of the image improves homogeneously up to f8 where perhaps it gives the best of itself. A great buy rating 9

Fascione

sent on 01 Febbraio 2022

Pros: construction, shape, detachment of the floors

Cons: A bit of AC, edges at maximum aperture

Opinion: I was surprised by this lens, the construction is excellent, the rings are very soft and perfectly frictioned, the diaphragm ring decliccabile. The optical scheme is simple and I like it, it gives character to the photos; I think it is this simplicity to give a beautiful detachment of the planes to the images ... maybe also because of some AC but I would say that all in all it is a good compromise. It is not a lens for those who want to shoot fast, excellent quality / price.

Nicolò Cavallaro

sent on 04 Dicembre 2021

Pros: Small and beautiful aesthetically. Excellent assembly. Diaphragms ring with shots. Optical quality in relation to the price.

Cons: Non-stellar flares resistance. Lack of hood. Maybe the front cap screwing.

Opinion: It costs 89 euros new and on Micro 4/3 has an angle of view equivalent to a 70mm, so I personally find it very versatile, both for portraiture and for other photographic genres. The optical scheme was probably taken from old lenses of the past, it resembles the Pentax Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 and this is not a bad thing, indeed. Mechanically it is a pleasure to rotate both the focus ring and the diaphragm ring with its pasty clicks. Even aesthetically it makes its figure, hardly those who see it think of a Chinese goal. At f/1.4, if you are precise in focusing and respecting the right working distances, it can be sharp in the center... not to make the eyes bleed, but with more than dignified results. Even the contrast I find good already at full opening. Closing slightly sharpness increases quickly. At f/2 it is already great, at f/2.8 excellent. I would say that for portraiture you can safely take advantage of the range from f / 1.4 to f / 2.8, I would use f / 5.6 only for landscape and architecture. Speaking of blurred I don't mind at all, I find it very classic/analog. More than the quality of the Bokeh I would dwell on the ability to detach a subject from the context and the TTArtisan 35mm in this sense manages to show its personality, what I was looking for in such a lens. Probably several factors contribute including the lack of low dispersion elements or aspherical lenses that if on the one hand does not allow a record incisiveness at full aperture on the other these 'imperfections' give character to the photos. I have not had the opportunity to sincerely test the accuracy of the distance scale imprinted on the barrel, I always use the viewfinder or the camera display to focus accurately. The resistance to flares is not exceptional and this is easily explained by the lack of particular anti-reflective treatments that are found in modern lenses, but still nothing tragic, just pay a little attention and know how to exploit certain reflections can also be decorative. A bit of barrel distortion, I would say more than physiological and also present in lenses that travel on very different prices, however easily correctable in post. Strangely enough, clicking at f/11 is not available; you go from f/8 to f/16, but it makes no sense to close beyond f/5.6-f/8 (both for APS-C and Micro 4/3 users), for diffraction problems and because at f/5.6 the lens reaches its maximum sharpness throughout the frame. The minimum focusing distance is not bad and allows you to take shots of flowers and other fairly small subjects. Ultimately I would recommend it to all those who are not frightened by manual focusing; who want a small, elegant and well-assembled fix that manages to give photos with a retro flavor, but with good sharpness and contrast, all while spending a lot.

Rupa13

sent on 20 Novembre 2021

Pros: Pretty sharp, well built but lightweight. The ring of the diaphragms has the shots. It is worth more than the price.

Cons: Difficult focus for too short a ride from 3mt to infinity. Totally wrong and unreliable depth of field scale. Chromatic aberration and little resistance to flare.

Opinion: I bought this lens about a year ago to mount it on fujifilm X-T3. It is very small, about the same as Fuji's 23mm f.2. It is a sharp and quite contrasted optics, which can give surprising results. The problem is to focus correctly, also because the stroke of the ring is very short and there will be three millimeters of rotation between three meters and infinity. On a mirrorless, keeping the aperture more closed than f.2,8, it becomes a problem to focus with precision. Nor does it help the presence of the depth of field scale printed on the lens, because it is totally fake (in my opinion it corresponds to that of a 24mm). The lens costs around 90 euros, so the presence of chromatic aberration can not be missed, but it corrects itself quite well in the processing phase. More unpleasant the flare against the light, but, as already mentioned, the price is that and you can not have everything from life.