Most of the time, a worthwhile lens is going to cost you at least several hundred dollars, if not somewhere in the thousands. So, the prospect of a $69 lens is certainly intriguing. Can it produce worthwhile images, though? This excellent video review takes a look at the TTArtisan 50mm f/2 and the kind of performance and image quality you can expect from it in real-world usage.
Coming to you from Dustin Abbott, this great video review takes a look at the TTArtisan 50mm f/2 lens. 50mm lenses with wide apertures are some of the most useful and versatile out there, suitable for everything from portraits to low-light events work and more. The TTArtisan 50mm f/2 comes with a 10-blade diaphragm for particularly smooth bokeh and has a relatively small footprint as well. On the other hand, it lacks autofocus, and for the price, you should not expect world-class sharpness, but that being said, it looks like it produces quite decent photos. As long as you will not be photographing fast action or do not need critical levels of sharpness, it seems like a nice option for the price. Check out the video above for Abbott's full thoughts on the lens.
It's Chinese.
I won't give any money to their economy unless I can't avoid it.
And spare me your outrage; they're genocidal ethno-fascists.
We all like to say stuff like this but do you own an iPhone or a Godox light? I feel like it's impossible to buy non China produced products even if you wanted.
No, I do not.
Was going to say something similar but you put it very eloquently! We need to stop giving these Chinese companies ANY press time or visibility with their trash, copycat, IP theft laden crap!
TTartisan makes phenomenal lenses. I wouldn't expect this one to be any different. My only complaint is that they don't ship any lenses with lens hoods. However, for the costs... both value and performance are phenomenal.
Phenomenal?!?! Yeah, riiiiiiiight, they’re some of the worst garbage!!
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Is there any Canadian brand you recommend for the same price / same quality?
Sadly there are no Canadian lens brands on the market. However some of the best lenses ever (and still) made come from Germany and Japan, and I’m pleased to say none of my gear has Made in China stamped on it.
In your profile you have listed some Godox gear as well is some Apple products.
Thank you for reminding me those are still listed in my Fstoppers profile, I've actually sold them cause they performed poorly and went with Profoto instead, despite the huge price delta.
As for my Apple gear, it's not camera gear.
Haha.
Edison Wrzosek So you claim that you don't use Chinese lenses, or support their business tactics. Then how would you know that TTartisan lenses are "the worst garbage" if you supposedly never tried one? GTFO here with that trash. Either your lying or your talking out of your ass. Which one is it?
Lots of big ASSumptions there… You do realize one doesn’t have to OWN the gear in order to try it out? I have friends who (foolishly) bought gear from some of these companies, and let me try it on my camera, and yes, it’s f’ing garbage. Perhaps not so bad considering the price point, but like the old saying goes, you get what you pay for, so for dirt cheap Chinese crap, you get what you pay for.
So no, I’m not lying, and it’s YOU who can STFU and GTFO. Next time think twice before making ASSumptions and running YOUR mouth off.
Or you can STFU and let people enjoy the gear. It's already clear that this lens can produce great images. The did you need a reason just to insert your anti Chinese racist B.S.? Not every Chinese company uses underhanded tactics or produces junk. Some companies want to offer a lower cost option to people who may, or may not be able to afford expensive gear. If this lens produced a poor image to you, either it's a bad copy, or user error. There are hundreds of users and reviews with plenty of great things to say about this line of lenses, including many of the editors of fstoppers.
Oh fuck off with your instant labelling me being a racist, you don't even have a fucking clue what the word implies! You can be against supporting CCP (read, COMMUNIST) tied companies, and it doesn't instantly make one racist! People like you need to grab a dictionary and learn what the word means!
And go figure, you put bad image quality down to "bad copy, or user error", what an ignorant reply! It's obvious to me that, where you're concerned, they can do no wrong, and any "issue" is down to the user, FFS, how pathetic.
Oh, and BTW, those "hundreds of users and reviews with plenty of great things to say" are mostly bought and paid for; a simple check of the Amazon comment threads with systems like FakeSpot quickly shows that, and on YT, just because the vlogger states "no money has exchanged hands for this review" doesn't mean jack shit because companies like this often give the vlogger LOADS of perks to keep them from saying bad stuff about the product, so those reviews don't mean SHIT, and you believing that just shows your further naivety.
Because I don’t own a tonne of lenses, I decided to splash out on a Voigtlander 40mm lens for my Sony. Expensive but the electronic contacts, the ergonomics, included lens hood, the stunning characterful image quality and the colours made it worth it. I’m done buying cheap lenses like I did when I owned a DSLR.
With quality vintage lenses in abundance, and speaking for myself obviously, I just don't see the point in Chinese manual lenses. Just buy a quality Japanese or German legacy lens and adaptor. They are amazing. I have close to 100 of them now 😂.
For one, I respect this reviewers lens evaluations, though I don't always agree.
Tbh, despite many of those who are still in love with manual focus lens, I am not one. Tbh, AF, remains one of the major photographic advances.
Being a product of the film era, I was raised on many focus lens and, yes, do own 1or 2 lovely quite old, mainly German lens that I use ,but infrequently.
Won't buy into the anti Asian issues, but just commence making the relevant products in your home country and be prepared to pay more.
However, my central view is that I see little point in purchasing a lens, or number of lens, that are not of the same quality as the camera body.
Depends what you're shooting. I tend to use MF for landscape and architecture, and AF for people and animals.
And btw, it's not "anti-Asian", it's anti-CCP. The distinction matters.