7Artisans 50mm f/1.05 FE lens review by Marc Alhadeff: “A very nice artistic lens to discover the world of F1.0 lenses at reasonable price”

 

The new Full Frame lens is now in Stock at Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon UK.

Marc Alhadeff from Sonyalpha.blog tested the new 7Artisans 50mm f/1.05 FE lens:

The 7 Artisans 50mm F1.05 (486$) full frame manual lens has vocation to be an affordable ultra fast aperture lens. It deliver very beautiful portraits with a very nice and dreamy atmosphere. Strong points are the background blur, bokeh balls , very good and natural color rendering & good contrast. Sharpness is only average on a 61Mpix but will be perfectly ok on a 24Mpix camera.

The lens is very well built and its ergonomics are very good for manual focusing. Compared to the Mitakon 50mm F0.95 – Dark Knight (800 euros) the lens is more compact and less heavy.

  • The Mitakon is definitively sharper both in the centre and in the corners but its color rendering is more vintage , contrast is less good and the bokeh balls are more polygonal than rounded as of F1.4
  • The 7Artisans is globally less sharp but has a better color rendering , bokeh balls , and better contrast

The choice will depend on which criteria is more important for you. A very nice artistic lens to discover the world of F1.0 lenses at reasonable price

New reviews of the Tokina APS-C trio: 23/33/56mm E lenses

You can buy the new Tokina APS-C lenses at BHphoto.

Tokina 23mm f/1.4 tested at SonyAlphaBlog: “is a very good AF lens for Sony APSC cameras”

Tokina 33mm f/1.4 tested at SonyAlphaBlog: “ It delivery good to excellent sharpness across the whole frame , very soft background blur, good bokeh balls, very good color rendition, pleasant skin tones. It’s AF is good and efficient most of the time. ”

Tokina 56mm f/1.4 tested at SonyAlphaBlog: “ It delivery very good to outstanding sharpness in the centre , very soft background blur, good bokeh balls, very good color rendition, pleasant skin tones. It’s AF is good and efficient most of the time. “

New Viltrox f/1.4 APS-C E-mount lenses in Stock at BHphoto. First review by Marc Alhadeff

The new Viltrox f/1.4 APS-C lenses are now in Stock at BHphoto.

And Marc Alhadeff from SonyAlphaBlog tested the 33mm lens and the 56mm lens (review here).

The Viltrox 33mm F1.4 STM (274 euros) is a very good prime lens for A6xxx. It delivery good to excellent sharpness across the whole frame , very soft background blur, good bokeh balls, very good color rendition, pleasant skin tones. It’s AF is good and efficient most of the time.
It will be an ideal lens for portrait and street photography. If you do a lot of video its clickless aperture ring is a pleasure to use, if not in A position on the ring, it will behave like a standard lens with aperture control via the body