7Artisans vs Meike 50mm f/0.95

[@KishySou1597]

thanks bro, amazing video, trust me ur gonna blow up, and ide be ur first patreon lmao.

[@pietrozuco]

Legend! Thank you!! More content is coming! :)

[@Andrey.Balandin]

Other reviewers who did a more one-to-one comparison pointed out that Meike is less sharp and has more CAs, halos and flares compared to 7artisans. Unfortunately, you didn't compare the same shots between these lenses, so it's really hard to tell. You didn't say which one you decided to keep. Also, you stated that the Takumar would be better optically, but you didn't demonstrate it. I actually expect it to have at the least the same amount of CAs and be at best as sharp as these newer lenses at the same aperture. That would have been an interesting comparison to make. You did not mention, among the reasons to get these lenses, the dreamy bokeh and halos you can get for portraits, flowers, and the like... At wide aperture these lenses can offer the unique artistic character that clinical lenses just don't have. And that in itself makes them appealing for audiences far beyond beginners on a budget - enthusiast and art photographers.

[@just_eirik]

Nice video and comparison! I’ve had both of these but only the 7Artisans right now. Gave the Meike away. I really like them, even though they’re soft at 0.95. And they’re pretty! Right? The Meike especially. It’s the nicest looking lens I’ve ever had. Anyway, about focusing, can I suggest trying to zoom in and focus that way instead of using focus peaking? Personally I feel like the focus peaking gets in the way. Every time I rely on it, I never get focus exactly where I want. But which zooming in, I get focus precisely where I want.

[@pietrozuco]

Thank you. Agree the Meike is a really nice looking lens! very elegant. About focusing, I agree, the focus peaking gets in the way, I find it annoying, but my eyesight is not that good, even with the diopter adjustment control, it helps but it's not perfect, so I have trouble to see 100% sharp through the viewfinder and if I use the screen I need to switch to my reading glasses. Old people's life hahaha. The focus peaking helps in that regard. After using it for a while, I got used to where it's actually focusing, I'm just afraid it might easily change on firmware updates or using other cameras

[@just_eirik]

@@pietrozuco Ah I see! My apologies, I didn’t take bad eyesight into account.

[@pietrozuco]

No worries, thanks. I wish camera makers took diopter adjustment control a bit more seriously. It only adjusts myopia but it doesn't take into account astigmatism for example. Anyway I can't complain, my case is not that bad. The positive side is that with those lenses, learning zone focusing can help a lot, specially in street photography

[@dennismartinez-k3x]

These lenses are f/0.95 but was the Takumar f/1.8? And if you add a converter, don you lose a stop? So it becomes a f/2.5 or f/2.8? If true, that's not good.

[@Andrey.Balandin]

No, you don't lose a stop because of the converter, and it's not really a converter, it's just an adapter, which has no optics. You do lose about an F-stop but not in brightness but rather in the depth of field. And it has nothing to do with the adapter, but with the crop factor. The Takumar like any full-frame lens would have a more shallow depth of field on a full frame camera because, with the same framing of the shot, you would be much closer to the subject, which means the relative distance between the subject and the background is going to be larger, and thus the background would be more blurred out on a full-frame camera compared to a crop-sensor camera at the same focal length and aperture when the frame coverage is the same. This applies of course to the crop-sensor lenses as well. Basically, 0.95 lens on a crop sensor let's in the same amount of light as FF 0.95, but the DOF would be equivalent to about 1.4.