TTartisan has announced the details of the 40mm F2.8 Macro, a forthcoming 1:1 macro lens for various APS-C camera systems.
TTartisan says the manual lens is constructed of eight elements in seven groups, including two low-dispersion elements. Few additional details are provided in the video, but based on the images of the lens shown in the video, the lens will have an aperture range of F2.8 through F16, have a 52mm front filter thread and have a minimum focusing distance of 17cm (6.7”).
TTartisan hasn’t shared what the suggested price will be, nor where it will be available to purchase, but does confirm it will be available for Canon EOS M, Fujifilm X, Micro Four Thirds, Nikon Z and Sony E mount APS-C camera systems.
If you’re feeling lucky, you can try to guess the price of the lens in the comments of the above YouTube teaser video; first to do so will get the lens for free when it’s released. You can keep up with the latest TTartisan releases on TTartisan’s website, as well as its online shop.
Well made, light click stops. Nice stick on focus handle supplied. Do not expect the performance of Fujis macro, but its more than ok. It punches above its price. Manual not an issue in fact fine for macro. Focus throw short from infinity so need to be careful when using as a normal 60mm. 3rd party pouch supplied too big but supplied.
TTartisan is the only Chinese brand that I would buy for my Fuji X-T3 because their lenses still have "click" stops in their aperture rings. I have a 35mm Mieke lens and it is so easy to change f-stops by accident.
Seeing the pre-production reviews, this actually looks really good. 40mm/2.8 isn't going to obliterate backgrounds at portrait distances, but the quality of the blur is really good. Nice round balls when stopped down, really clean and less onion-y than a lot of costlier lenses. Clicked aperture, low distortion, relatively few aberrations. Only real optical issue seems to be weak corners, but fairly low vignetting. Seems like a pretty good lens for the price.
I've shot enough on the Pentax DA 40mm to feel like that 60mm-equiv is a nice walk-around focal length. The more I think about it, it really tempts me. A general purpose decent lens that can be used to get really nice closeups on flowers walking around town seems to suit me perfectly.
Corners aren't that weak if you focus precisely on them. It seems that the quality is better where we focus, which is no problem in macro photography. I would never use this lens for any other purpose
@madeinlisboa - If I cared about literally nothing but macro, this kind of isn't where I'd want to go. Sure, it's (likely) cheap, but so are extension tubes or reversal rings. A bit more money gets 60-65mm 2x macro lenses, which might be more useful, with the higher magnification and the longer working distance.
Where this stands apart for me is the fact that it's got a more practical focal length, at least to how I tend to shoot. I think I'd simply rather have a 40mm than a 60-65 for just about everything else. With a lot of the general optical qualities, like sunstars, eh, I have other sunstar lenses. I don't mind stopping down if I need edge-to-edge sharpness. My particular macro style is coming across a lovely flower or plant bit or rock while I'm out walking, wanting to get close, and this lens due to the wider focal length is simply going to be miles more useful than anything else.
snarky comment? it is opinion about technical aspect of the lense, it's not politics.. since i guessing it si mechanical manual focus macro lense, it would nice to have let say at least 2:1 magnification ratio. but hey, looks like i'm out of the game with this archaic numbers etc.
@madeinlisboa: true, that's one thing, that could help that..
Macro only beginning at 1:1 is kind of a recent concept. For old Pentax macro lenses, most of the Pentax-M and Pentax-A macro lenses were only 0.5x magnification, with only the A 100/2.8 and 200/4 going to 1:1.
Macrophotography isn't defined by the magnification ratio, 2:1 gets more of the environment but its still macro, you can clearly see the details and get a 1:1 with a high MP camera if you want to, also some insects are big enough that 1:1 is too zoomed in.
somebody should refresh memory, what magnification means (aka lifesize vs film/sensor area). yes, there's digital zoom, but we're talking optics here. what i was just try to imply at first place that if somebody made analogue, manual focus macro lense today, it would be nice to have at least twice a magnification versus rest f generic macro/normal lenses in af world. and yes, i mentioned, other way is to cut the price in half, but not sure this is always the best way.
There's still a lot of relatively new manual macro lenses out there and the vast majority are still 1:1, so I'm not sure how one more is underwhelming... The Laowa 2x & 2.5-5x macros are the exception rather than the rule.
Is there some big boast about 1:1 in their PR that I missed or something?
I have no idea if this TTartisan is super sharp or have something extraordinary but for $249, why bother since I can get a Nikon AFS 40/2.8 Micro DX for $278. I get AF and can be mounted on my Z with the FTZ. I have used the Nikon 40/2.8 Micro and it performs quite well for me.
That would kind of remove many bodies from any meaningful use since a crop will kill off over half the pixels. The 24mp bodies will be like 10 or 11mp or whatever it ends up. When you are looking for detail in macro, going back to 2007 pixel counts isn't really gonna sell.
@KAAMBIC - how do you calculate 'killing off over half the pixels'? Don't get me wrong, purchasing a crop lens with the specific intention of using it on a FF mount seems intuitively wrong, but a crop lens will remove only the corners of the image. If you make a post-process crop of your image to get rid of the missing corners it will still amount to not less than two thirds of the original full frame.
It's my understanding that most modern FF ML/ILC will automatically jump into crop sensor mode when they have an apsc lens attached. Meaning you don't have the ability to crop it in post and only remove the vignetting.
I see what you're saying. It's a fully manual lens, so I don't think the camera will automatically crop, but I'm prepared to be corrected on this issue by anybody who knows better. Even so, if the crop was enforced it would amount to a loss of one third of the image. Otherwise, assuming you're free to crop as you wish, a square crop, for example, would ensure that the subject could be rendered at the full pixel density.
Curiously, none AFAIK. Manual focus mirrorless lenses for APS-C is an overlooked segment, exclusively filled by Chinese makers that have been phasing out the old crappy recycled C-mount designs from like a decade ago with dedicated lenses like the macro TTaritisan. Cosina has began catching up only very recently.
Been using my film era macros on APS-C digital, so this will be interesting. I wish DPReview would do more than just copy in press release info and add more context in the news section.
This lens is not very interesting and therefore not my cup of tea. I also believe that there are better alternatives even though it might require to save up a bit longer but worth it.
Main competition is pergear's 60mm 2:1 ($200) or 7artisan's 60mm 1:1 ($179). Those are both internal focussing (although the pergear might be unit focussing behind a glass front cover), which I'm leery about in a cheap macro - half the fun is hanging it off as many macro extensions as possible. This lens would be a better general purpose one (looks smaller, and a more useful FL) while still offering good macro capability.
40mm is a fine FL for APS-C - it's tighter than 50mm on FF, and people keep buying 50mm macros.
@Greg Ohio - To each their own. I'm more tempted by this than the 60mm from 7Artisans or 65mm from Laowa, or any of the native Fuji macros.
A wider angle suits me more since I'm not necessarily a dedicated macro user. APS-C 40mm isn't so tight that it stops being an enjoyable focal length for a walkaround lens, with the option to get real close to flowers or bugs or whatever. I tried a Pentax 100mm macro on APS-C and hated it. Just too tight for anything other than macro shots. There's going to be a major difference between 65mm and 100mm on an APS-C, but it doesn't seem too hard to imagine someone liking wider angles.
If this is clicked rather than declicked in the aperture ring, it becomes a pretty tempting lens for me.
Thanks. Looks very nice for the asking price. If i decide buy this, one good reason is that it does not give sunstars, which looks unnatural to me. If I don't, it's because I can get the Laowa 50mm APO, which has electrical contacts and likely better quality, albeit at a noticeably higher price.
This is a macro lens. Honestly, I wouldn't care about sunstars and the fact that the quality is better where we focus, makes it a good choice for macro, specially at this price
Any chance this lens transmits exif data to the camera and allows aperture control from the camera? The shot of the mount leads me to believe it doesn't.
Without those features, I'll stick with the macro lenses I have.
Though they coyly avoid showing the entire diameter of the mounting end I don't think there are any electrical contacts at all.
So, clunky and manual focus; I'm guessing $399 as their price. Only thing I like about this lens is the extremely recessed front element; de facto lens hood.
BTW, is your user name a play on makudonarudo? Great!
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