A spin wih a cheap 35mm/f1.2...

[Yannis1976]

One of the things I love doing with a Fuji camera (especially with the XT50 or previously the XE4) is using from time to time manual cheap lenses. This day I picked the 7Artisans 35mm/f1.2 and went for a fast shooting in an old, abandoned building. Partly also due to my manual focus technique, don't expect any sharp or IQ perfect image here...

























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[Paulmorgan]

One of the things I love doing with a Fuji camera (especially with the XT50 or previously the XE4) is using from time to time manual cheap lenses. This day I picked the 7Artisans 35mm/f1.2 and went for a fast shooting in an old, abandoned building. Partly also due to my manual focus technique, don't expect any sharp or IQ perfect image here...

I especially like #2 & #4

I also have a 7artisan 35mm f1.2 (the first version)

My copy was pretty good and I have never felt the need to update it.

I very much like its rendering, its just lovely as a video lens.

Its also very tiny, quite remarkable for such a fast lens.

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[Morris0]

Some of your photos show slight softness, a common thing with manual focus and while this may bother some, it provides some character missing from riser sharp images that don't have the wonderful compositions of the photos you show here.

Morris

 

[Michael Gebauer]

Yannis, your photos turned out really well. I like them a lot.

Best
Michael

 

[raymondp1138]

Really enjoy the two portrait pieces.

I have the TTartisan 25mm f/2.0 that I got practically for free to try a fully manual lens for general purpose photography, but quickly found out that lots of patients is required, so as a consequence it rarely gets used. :-( Too bad, because this lens has lots of that imperfect IQ 'character'.

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[Ocoloy]

I really like the mark 2 version

 

[Yannis1976]

Some of your photos show slight softness, a common thing with manual focus and while this may bother some, it provides some character missing from riser sharp images that don't have the wonderful compositions of the photos you show here.

Morris

I would say much more than just a slight softness I guess my manual focusing skills are not the best, but the lens isn't super sharp too.

 

[Yannis1976]

I really like the mark 2 version

Really like this one! I have the 1st version of the 35/1.2.

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[Yannis1976]

Really enjoy the two portrait pieces.

I have the TTartisan 25mm f/2.0 that I got practically for free to try a fully manual lens for general purpose photography, but quickly found out that lots of patients is required, so as a consequence it rarely gets used. :-( Too bad, because this lens has lots of that imperfect IQ 'character'.

Yes, I also have the 7artisans 25/f1.8 and that has also quite a character...

Don't miss this lens!! (7Artisans 25mm/f1.8 & XE4)

I have recently bought the 7Artisans 25mm/f1.8 (about 80€) for Fuji and the lens is very very interesting... :-) :-) Small, light, as sharp as needed, nice bokeh and the silver version matches nicely with the silver XE4... Some samples from today walk at the beach, edited to my taste...

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[Paulmorgan]

Some of your photos show slight softness, a common thing with manual focus and while this may bother some, it provides some character missing from riser sharp images that don't have the wonderful compositions of the photos you show here.

Morris

I would say much more than just a slight softness I guess my manual focusing skills are not the best, but the lens isn't super sharp too.

What version of the lens are you using ?

 

[Yannis1976]

Some of your photos show slight softness, a common thing with manual focus and while this may bother some, it provides some character missing from riser sharp images that don't have the wonderful compositions of the photos you show here.

Morris

I would say much more than just a slight softness I guess my manual focusing skills are not the best, but the lens isn't super sharp too.

What version of the lens are you using ?

The 1st one.

 

[Paulmorgan]

Some of your photos show slight softness, a common thing with manual focus and while this may bother some, it provides some character missing from riser sharp images that don't have the wonderful compositions of the photos you show here.

Morris

I would say much more than just a slight softness I guess my manual focusing skills are not the best, but the lens isn't super sharp too.

What version of the lens are you using ?

The 1st one.

I was just editing my post but you got there before me

If filling the frame I found it best to get focus roughly in the ball park then fine focus by just tilting my head back or forwards, for me it seems a lot quicker than trying to fine focus using the lens barrel.

I like to use these Chinese lenses with my old XE-2, it would be a lot easier using my XT-4`s with the bigger viewfinder.

My eyes are not that great but here`s a couple from my 35mm f1.2.





I have a real soft spot for the TTArtisan 50mm f1.2, my copy has a slightly loose fit to the mount but I am still happy with it.



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[Lester Lefkowitz]

Manual focus with a very fast lens on a digital camera is not that easy for anyone. However, we can significantly increase our number of sharp keepers by using the convenient aids Fuji provides. There's focus peaking and also the ability to immediately zoom inside the virwfinder to a magnified portion of the frame. They're both very helpful and provide fast and easy to access once you get the muscle memory engaged.

As someone raised on film cameras, their ground glass screens, split image and a microprism collar greatly assisted in manual focus. Once autofocus came on the scene, those aids were removed. Boo hoo!

Lester Lefkowitz, author of The Manual of Close-Up and Macro Photography, Volumes I & II

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[Ocoloy]

Manual focus with a very fast lens on a digital camera is not that easy for anyone. However, we can significantly increase our number of sharp keepers by using the convenient aids Fuji provides. There's focus peaking and also the ability to immediately zoom inside the virwfinder to a magnified portion of the frame. They're both very helpful and provide fast and easy to access once you get the muscle memory engaged.

As someone raised on film cameras, their ground glass screens, split image and a microprism collar greatly assisted in manual focus. Once autofocus came on the scene, those aids were removed. Boo hoo!

Lester Lefkowitz, author of The Manual of Close-Up and Macro Photography, Volumes I & II

www.MacroPhotograper.net

Zone focusing will always be faster than AF. That's how I shoot skateboarding even at low apertures. With the Nikon ZF manual focus is a breeze and I got the same % keepers as with AF. People are just lazy these days. But AF is good for older people with bad eyes. And most people I see out and about and in photography clubs are mostly over 60.