The new TTArtisan 50mm f/2 is a finances-friendly, all-guide, total-body key accessible for a broad vary of mirrorless systems, which includes various crop-sensor mounts. Priced at just $69, you can pick a person up proper now straight from TTArtisan.
Who it’s for
The “nifty fifty”—or any no-thrills, rapidly-aperture 50mm prime—is just one of the most multipurpose parts of kit about. In actuality, 50mm primes had been typically sold kitted with SLR bodies in the course of the movie period. And frankly, everybody must have one particular in their bag (a 50mm not a film SLR…ok, it’s possible equally). Why? In a pinch, a 50mm can stand in for just about any lens, from a large-angle to a telephoto—it sits there ideal in the meaty element of the focal selection, and which is the vital to its flexibility.
TTArtisan claims this specific product is sharp, even large open (we’ll withhold judgment till handling a person). Continue to, operating it will need some handbook concentrating chops. With an picture circle big more than enough to go over a whole-frame sensor, the TArtisan 50mm f/2 is obtainable for Canon RF-, Canon M-, Fujifilm X-, Leica/Sigma/Panasonic L-, Nikon Z-, and Sony E-mounts. On the APS-C mounts, it will give a 75mm equal field of perspective. The lens is also out there for Micro Four Thirds, which will translate to a 100mm equal discipline of check out.
Style and design & optics
Optically, the TTArtisan 50mm f/2 is quite very simple in its design with six features arranged in 5 teams, such as two Large-Refractive Index (HR) aspects, used to tame aberrations. The front presents a 43mm filter thread and the lens can focus as close as roughly 20 inches.
The lens barrel athletics a manual aperture ring up front with a vary from f/2 to f/16. And a nine-blade aperture diaphragm need to ideally deliver some good, rounded bokeh, especially when stopped down a tiny. Towards the rear of the lens is a somewhat more substantial guide focus ring, with hyperfocal distance markings.
Though TTArtisan does not specify, the lens is pretty much surely designed of plastic and not weather conditions-sealed. That reported, the lens mount—arguably the most structurally-critical element of the build—does appear to be metallic. The measurement and fat vary marginally by mount, nevertheless we’d look at all versions to be relatively compact. The L-mount and Micro Four Thirds versions, for instance, are both equally 2.4-inches lengthy and 1.4-inches in diameter, with a pounds of 6.7 ounces.
Selling price & availability
The TTArtisan 50mm f/2 is $69, no matter of which mount you select, but if you want the official TTArtisan lens hood (you do), you are going to have to have to cough up a further six bucks. Presently, TTArtisan has the 50mm f/2 offered for Canon M, Fujifilm, Nikon, Micro Four Thirds, and Sony bodies. RF- and L-mount end users will have to wait just a little bit for a longer time for availability (July 28th).
