To use a smattering of lens clichés, the TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 is an ultra-fast character lens that is able to render dramatic 3D-looking images with a medium-format look. It is sharp (in center), contrasty (when stopped down a bit), and has accurate colors (except at wider aperture, where things cool considerably).

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 Your pictures Niks look like one of the World Press Photo 2021 for which I have made a google translation “A Buddhist temple occupies one half of a mountain, while the other was carved by the mining industry, in Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar, July 15, 2020. – HKUN LAT, MYANMAR Lens sharpness has nothing to do with picture sharpness; every lens made in the past 100 years is more than sharp enough to make super-sharp pictures if you know what you're doing. The only limitation to picture sharpness is your skill as a photographer. It's the least talented who spend the most time worrying about lens sharpness and blame crummy pictures on their equipment rather than themselves. Skilled photographers make great images with whatever camera is in their hands; I've made some of my best images of all time with an irreparably broken camera! Most pixels are thrown away before you see them, but camera makers don't want you to know that.

It's sharp enough in the center at f/0.95 for its intended purpose, but if you count each pixel of course it's softer than other 50mm lenses due to spherical aberration, and spherochromatism if you're not in perfect focus. See the Sample Images. I haven’t included the onion ring bokeh in the cons because almost every aspherical lens has it and it wouldn’t be fair putting it as a con. The heavy vignetting wide open is to be expected from such an extreme design, although is should clear up closing down. The streak across the balls - the bokeh balls! - is a sample variation, so it’s a con but it’s only this specific sample. If this 1,200×900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 20 × 30" (50 × 75cm). Voigtlander lenses compared: Left to Right – Skopar 2.5, Ultron f2, Nokton 1.4, Nokton 1.2 v3, Nokton 1.2 v2

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. Very short telescoping built-in hood. It doesn't do much. It's stiff so it's not that easy to pull-out, but does tend to stay where you put it: Free YouTube Search Tool– Keep up to date with the monthly Newsletterand receive a free copy of my YouTube video search tool. Search my 200+ videos by lens manufacturer, lens mount, focal length, film format and other filters. So, I am not sure this lens is so good, because we have for what we pay, there we see a 50mm on a M8 which becomes a 65mm, but it is not possible to make a F.0,95 lens at this price, somewhere it must have a quality bug, … … this is the second reason I do not buy things for China, quality was never good, but it is afordable, but I never keep something, do not worry, at this price they will give you a new one, …Stopping down yields steady improvements and by f/2.0 the performance is good to very good. Flare resistance Leica M10 | TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 | f/0.95 The most grueling test of any focusing system is photographing my kids; if I can rangefinder focus on my little moving targets when it’s past their bedtime, I can focus on anything. While I can definitely make it work with the TTArtisan 50mm F/0.95, it doesn’t come easy. The giant barrel of the lens intrudes into the 50mm frame lines of my Leica M (not a consideration with an EVF) presenting a slight challenge to framing, and moving the focus ring is a bit of a chore. The obvious question to Sony users is: how does the TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 compare to the slightly cheaper Zhong Yi 50mm 0.95 III? Whereas the Summicron is near perfect, optically corrected to be flat and neutral, the TTArtisan 50mm F/0.95 has a bold signature.

Adding this up, it comes down to the feature set and what you may prioritize in a lens. If you are on a budget and do not mind manual focusing a lens such as the TTArtisan may come into play. If you focus on something farther the Zhong Yi lenses are slightly sharper and the bokeh also renders a bit smoother.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.