To use another analogy, the 35mm Summicron is like a set of studio monitors and the TTArtisan is a pair of BEATS headphones. If you want ultimate fidelity, listen on monitors. If you want the bass to rattle your fillings, go with the BEATS. If you want your images to be viewed like there was no lens, use the ‘cron. If you want to filter your photographic vision through a (literal) lens that can seriously bend some light and make things pop, try the TTArtisan. This Mitakon 50mm f/0.95 is a special-purpose bokeh lens for LEICA M or any mirrrorless camera. It is an inexpensive copy of the LEICA NOCTILUX-M 50mm f/0.95.

The weird circular flare coming from the sun at f/0.95 seems common in other fast Chinese lenses like the TTArtisan 50/1.4M and 7Artsians 50/1.05. A client lens for me is the best lens I can use which normally means sharp but pretty photos. For my Leica wedding photography I really enjoy the Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f1.2 lens for example. See below for that and more 35mm lens options. In the center of the frame almost every lens will render a perfect circle, but only lenses with very low optical vignetting will keep this shape in the corners.

Pros And Cons:

The big focus ring is very damped and takes two fingers to turn. It takes a lot of turning; it's precise but not fast. IMO, as far as I can remember (I sold the Noctilux half a year ago and I have to admit that I never liked it), the current Noctilux 50 also has several flaws which you point out for TTArtisan one: spherical aberration, LoCA, astigmatism, extreme corner sharpness, non-disappearing vignetting. The 0.95 lenses are not about optical perfection. They are more about DoF, bokeh and characters. I could fairly trade these weaknesses for DoF and bokeh at f/0.95, but the Noctilux bokeh is swirly and nervous as well. Whats more, the field curvature is very prominent on Noctilux which leads to unpleasant bokeh. The 1 metre closest focusing distance on Noctilux is another deal breaker for me. Optically I think this review is a very accurate representation of reality. What I wanted to add that vignetting is extremely focus distance dependent. So it only becomes a serious problem nearing infinity, regardless of the aperture, though certainly stopping the lens down worsens the extreme corners of the extreme corners. I agree, in principle, with the idea that a lens should serve your vision rather than provide it, but I’m not above using the rendering of this lens at f/0.95 to obfuscate all of the unavoidable visual mess around a subject (i.e. a house full of toys and unfolded laundry). It’s also just exciting to alter reality with an image. Even with the optical compromises at the wide end (softness, low contrast, color shift, and a buffet of chromatic aberration) the mind-bending subject isolation possible with this lens is so tempting to (over)use. I ended up speaking to Hamish about this, as I know he has also tried this lens on his M10. He confirmed that he too found close focusing with the TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 to be an issue when shooting wide open. I asked him to comment for the benefit of this review:

Talking about 9cm of DOF wide open, notice how it’s not that easy to nail it on the chart. 9cm is also theoretical: portraits are a lot more sensitive than that and getting the eyes in sharp focus requires perfect calibration even at this distance.

Pros & Cons

Good to hear you can still get work done with your models. funny story — there’s a hotel we’ve stayed at for years. Friends with all the staff, including a flamboyant woman in reception. Turns out she does theater burlesque — competitive, no less, and it has to be G-rated. With COVID shutting down all kinds of theater, I think I’ll suggest she use remote too, and set up the contests online. A very cool thing is that this amazing build quality from the M-mount lens line has been carried across to this 50mm f/1.2 lens. It really is built to a very high standard. The TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 protrudes into the 50mm viewfinder frame-lines. I personally haven’t been bothered that much by this. But this could seriously be annoying to you if you don’t like seeing too much of your lens in the viewfinder. But hey, what did you expect from such a big lens… The TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 is not a great choice for stopped down landscape shooting but I do not think anyone expected it to be. Stopped down the extreme corners remain pretty dark, which can be quite obvious in real world shots: Sony A7rII | TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 | f/8.0

All samples have been shot on my Fujifilm X-pro3 cameras. I have shot this lens at night as well as in daylight, I have tried to shoot both portraiture and more street oriented images. All images have been post processed using Adobe Lightroom software. When they announced its upcoming TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 lens, it made lots of noise. Can a Chinese brand realistically propose an usable alternative to the holy grail Noctilux?! Would it be even usable wide open considering its price? I decided to give it a go and see how it performs. You will find below my honest review about it after some months of use. As usual, I will (almost) only speak about real life things that matter out in the field. I don’t do test charts. You’ll benefit from pairing this lens with a camera with a fast top shutter speed and a Neutral Density filter, as it will allow you to use the lens wide open in brighter conditions, should you so choose. I didn’t use an ND filter with the TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95, and whenever I was walking in the sun and unable to access the magic sauce of wider apertures, I did find myself questioning my life choices. The TTartisan 50mm f/1.2 is an instant recommendation for anyone who likes to use the 50mm focal length on an APSC camera.

Must have big bugs on quality for the future such as degradation of optical elements and mechanic elements, This review is largely responsible for this decision, so I thought I would share some of my thoughts.

If you are not after that f/0.95 maximum aperture this Voigtlander is a better lens in many ways (e.g. sharpness, contrast, flare resistance) and way more portable. Throughout this series of lenses I had to calibrate my rangefinder a few times, so the issues I had with some of these lenses might have been the camera’s fault, but I can’t say for sure. In low-light environments, shooting is often accomplished by sacrificing image quality by increasing the ISO and reducing the shutter speed. At this time, the large aperture of F0.95 can solve the problems caused by low light and brings you to experience the beauty of low-light creation.You are from Canada, it’s nearly the same than USA, Europe, UK, Australia, NZ, what did happen ? Many factory closed and workers lost their jobs (Leica is luxury good company, so … ), … but this country breaks the prices, … and when they are anot happy for example of one country like Australia for example who was only asking for an inquiry abour Covid19, now we know that the money you give, we give all, from all over the world to the WHO has been used you for a joke report to help them to make their own national propaganda “virus is not from here, maybe frozen beef from Au …”, Islands build more and more, … conflicts with neighbors, …