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TTArtisan announces its first autofocus lens for five full-frame and APS-C cameras

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TTArtisan, famous for its inexpensive manual focus lenses has decided to go autofocus, and they’ve done it in quite a big way coming to five different camera systems at once. Announced today, TTartisan AF 32mm f/2.8 is a full-frame autofocus lens, although a couple of the new mounts are for APS-C cameras.

In full-frame flavours, the new lens will be coming in all three of the major mirrorless camera mounts. That means Sony E, Nikon Z and Canon RF. Yes, they’re going where other 3rd party lens manufacturers fear to tread. On the APS-C side of things, it’ll be available for Fuji X mount and, strangely, Canon EF-M for the dying EOS-M system.

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TTArtisan’s new $113 40mm f/2.8 Macro for MFT, Fuji X and Sony E looks pretty sharp

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TTArtisan has announced its manual focus 40mm f/2.8 Macro lens for APS-C mirrorless and Micro Four Thirds. Despite being an APS-C lens and only manual focus, there’s no EF-M or APS-C Z mount for this one (not yet anyway, although I hear EF-M might be on the way), just Fuji X and APS-C Sony E mounts. The lens offers a minimum focus distance of 17mm with 1:1 magnification.

Update: October 25th – It’s now available in Nikon Z flavour.

Although the lens was only officially announced today, it’s been in the hands of reviewers for a little while. Christopher Frost got his hands on one and took it for a spin on his Sony A5100. It’s a pretty ugly looking lens, although the images don’t look half bad, especially when you consider the lens costs less than $115.

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TTArtisan launches silver anodised version of their 50mm f/0.95 lens for Leica M

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Initially released last year, TTArtisan has expanded its colour options for their 50mm f/0.95 lens for Leica M mount once again. As well as the standard black and limited edition shiny “Silver Black” and red versions, there is now an anodised silver version available. Unlike the other non-black models, this one doesn’t appear to be a limited edition.

As well as the various Leica M mount versions of the lens, TTArtisan also released a very limited run of Sony E and Fuji X mount versions of the lens last year – they only made 20 of each. Like the other Leica M mount versions, though, the lens is identical in spec other than the colour.

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TTArtisan’s 17mm f/1.4 is a low-budget wide-angle lens for APS-C and MFT

TTArtisan has released their new 17mm f/1.4 wide-angle lens for APS-C in Sony E, Fuji X and Canon EOS M mounts offering a field of view equivalent to about 25.5mm focal length on full-frame. As is the trend these days, it’s also available with a Micro Four Thirds mount, although it obviously has a tighter angle of view which more closely resembles a 34mm focal length on full-frame.

This manual focus lens has a bright f/1.4 maximum aperture with a 10-blade diaphragm for shooting in low light conditions and when you want that super shallow depth of field. The lens is quite small and compact. Weighing in at 248g, the full metal body houses 9 elements in 10 groups.

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The TTArtisan 90mm f/1.25 lens for Leica M mount officially announced

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TTArtisan has announced their new newest lens for Leica M mount; the TTArtisan M 90mm f/1.25 manual focus full-frame lens. Despite housing a Leica M mount, you’re not limited to just using Leica M mount cameras. This lens can be adapted to every mirrorless system out there through the use of adapters, including Fuji X, Canon RF, Fuji GFX, Nikon Z, Leica L, and Sony E.

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TTArtisan’s 21mm f/1.5 is now available in (much cheaper) Sony E and Nikon Z mounts

Initially launched at the end of 2019 for Leica M mount, TTArtisan has now released two new mount versions of its 21mm f/1.5 full-frame wide-angle lens. No longer do you need to use adapters to fit the Leica M mount lens onto your Sony or Nikon mirrorless camera. It’s now available in both Sony E and Nikon Z mount variety.

Like its Leica M version, the two new Sony E and Nikon Z versions are both full-frame manual focus lenses, containing 13 elements in 11 groups and a 10-blade diaphragm offering a wide f/1.5 aperture. Unlike the Leica M version, though, these both come in at a little under $250, whereas the Leica version is still $429.

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Another fast fifty? – The TTartisan 50mm f/1.2 review

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2020 finally seems to be coming to an end! And let’s be honest here – This hasn’t exactly been the coolest year in recent history. But right before we close shop and welcome, a hopefully improved, 2021, a Chinese lens manufacturer apparently decided that we needed something cool to play with for our APSC cameras!

On December 18th, TTartisan announced the immediate availability of their new offering, the 50mm f/1.2. I was fortunate enough to try out the lens for about 3 weeks prior to release, and I thought I wanted to share my experiences with you here. But do we really need yet another fifty? Well, this lens does bring a couple of nice things to the table, including a ridiculously low price point at just 98$USD, so let’s have a closer look at it.

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TTArtisan is making a 50mm f/0.95 lens for Sony & Fuji – but it’s limited to only 20 units of each

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It’s not that often you see limited edition lenses these days, except with the likes of Leica. Even then, it’s usually just a limited edition colour of an already existing lens (or to launch a new one). TTArtisan, however, is making a very limited edition 50mm f/0.95 for the Sony E and Fujifilm X mounts. Only 20 will be produced for each mount.

TTArtisan hasn’t made an official announcement about the lens that I’ve seen yet, but it’s shown up on the website of Japanese distributor Shoten Kobo. It is a manual focus lens offering about a field of view equivalent to about a 75mm lens on a full-frame body. And the price? Well, it’ll only be around $400.

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