Artist lenses tend to be softer but have perhaps heavy vignetting or interesting fall off. I love the mentioned TTArtisan 50mm f0.95 lens for this look especially. 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. 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.

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. I spoke to TTArtisan about this, and they recommended using live view to focus at close distances, but didn’t comment specifically on our focal length findings. It’s my view that this lens is best thought of as having a 1m minimum focusing distance, for closer focusing wide open, you either need to be shooting more forgiving faster/lower resolution films, or – as recommended by TTA – use the lens with liveview.For most portrait applications this will not be a problem though. Bokeh Sony A7rII | TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 | f/0.95 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. Here you can see what it looks like when taking a picture of a cityscape at f/0.95: Leica M10 | TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 | f/0.95 Distortion Sony A7rII | TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 | f/4.0 It's soft or softer in the sides and corners, getting sharper as stopped down, but never perfectly sharp there. Every single Zeiss ZM lens I used (9 of them) was perfectly calibrated. So were most Voigtlanders: I had 15 of them of which 5 were screw mount, and all but three focused perfectly. Leica? I used 10 of them and had issues with one.

When stopping the lens down you can still catch all kinds of ghosts and also some rainbow artifacts with the sun close to the corner of the frame: Sony A7rII | TTArtisan 50mm 0.95 | f/8.0 I of all people know the appeal of owning an f/0.95 lens, but if you do not intend to use that aperture all the time you might want to consider a slower alternative, especially the Voigtlander 50mm 1.2 E. This Mitakon 50mm f/0.95 has a LEICA M mount. Focus and metering work perfectly on every LEICA M camera, from 1954's LEICA M3 through today's newest LEICA M-A, LEICA MP, LEICA M10 Monochrom, LEICA M10-P and LEICA M10-R.

TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 – Final Words

TTArtisan is a Chinese lens manufacturer owned by Shenzhen Mingjiang Optical Technology Co. Ltd. It specialises in mirrorless lenses and it seems to be outsourcing the actual manufacturing of the lens to DJ-Optical, a Chinese company that also manufactures lenses for the very similarly named lens brand7Artisans, also from China. 7Artisans has appeared on the market in 2017 with a fast 50mm 1.1 lens that made a bit of a splash in the rangefinder and mirrorless photographic community with its incredibly low price and surprising performance. TTArtisan released its first lens in 2019, an M-mount 35mm 1.4. Apparently the two brands are not related at all, only sharing the outsourcing of production to DJ-Optical. I wonder why TTArtisan decided to use a brand name that matched so closely the already existing 7Artisans. This naming similarity led to a lot of confusion among us users about the relationship between the two manufacturers: a common opinion circulating on the web was that TTArtisan was the brand for higher quality releases as opposed to 7Artisans. I don’t think the guys at 7Artisans really liked that.