TTArtisan 75mm F1.5 Swirly Bokeh Full Frame Camera Lens Large Aperture Lens Compatible with M42 Mount Camera Lens

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Value for the money, and build are very good. This lens is surprisingly quite heavy and clunky. You'll get used to it, but you won't relish taking it on a long walk. It's soft at the edges (as advertised) but sharp enough at the center. It's not a lens of strong contrast, but it is easy to make swirl, just have something backlit in the background, and don't be too close to main subject. It's an old design, from 1940's and kind of a one-trick-pony. BUT, it is fun, and capable of making unique images. It's manual focus, and has that vintage feel. As someone who owns many vintage lenses, TTArtisan did a nice job!

I, like you (probably) was into the look of some of the shots from Poor Things. I priced the petzval and saw how it’s out of stock a lot. I then looked deeper and found the Helios 44-2, but found that it’s either cheap and it’s a gamble on what model you get, or it’s expensive and you’re paying several times more for it than the seller paid. I ended up getting the TTArtisans 75mm over the rest because it looks great, there’s no gamble on whether it will be clean/functional , and the price is right. I do really want to get the Lomography 58 Petzval and Iron Glass Helios rehousing someday, but I love this lens. The focus is sharp and the bokeh is beautiful. It is sturdy but not too heavy. It is my new favorite lens and I will probably buy a second. I’ve mostly been doing product photography and portraits, but I’ve shot some nice video with it too. I’m working on a full in-depth review for YouTube. Update: The video was shot handheld on my canon R8. There was no editing done to the video, it’s raw from the camera. To the people complaining about the lens being upside down: You can flip the lens by carefully loosening the screws on the lens and rotating the lens. I am kind of clumsy so I bought a Pholsy M42 to RF mount. That mount allows you to flip the orientation of the lens without unscrewing the lens. It comes with an Allen wrench and it took me about one minute to fix the orientation.

I’ve only got to test this lens a bit but so far so good. To make the most of it with my cropped sensor on x-t5, I use a viltrox focal reducer ef>fx, so the overall setup is lens > m42 to ef > focal reducer > camera. Wide open, the lens is very very sharp at center. It’s not difficult to get swirly bokeh if your background is lit with small highlights but to get the right degree and size of bokeh, you need to play a bit with the distance to your subject and background. Stopping down, it’s sharp all around like any modern lens. I’ve got zero things to complain optically here, but I’m only an amateur so professionals might think differently. The lens itself is so beautiful built, all metal and very solid. Like others have said, it’s a bit heavy and with the adapter it’s even more front heavy. But the results it gives sorta alleviates that problem lol. I don’t see myself carrying it around all the time but I’m sure I’ll be spending a lot of time with it. When paired with Cinepacks’ swirly bokeh filter, it creates an even more interesting bokeh, see the last two pictures. Just a bit sad I didn’t get this lens during the xmas sale which would have given me 20% off. But oh well… 😀

This reasonably priced TTArtisan 75mm F1.5 lens is different than your regular, sharp, AF fast prime lens. Instead, you get something a bit unusual. Different bokeh is the main effect. You never know what the final outcome will be, especially wide open - but chances are you'll like the result. It's constructed like a professional lens, made of metal, beautiful finish and of course heavy but sturdy. It has a threaded screw-on lens cap and uses an M42 lens adapter to your camera which you must order separately. Mine worked perfect for the Nikon Zf. It is a manual focus lens that does not auto-focus nor communicate with your camera, so you'll need to feel comfortable shooting full manual. But that's not difficult and you can expect to have some fun with this lens. Try shooting at f/1.5 with a close subject for the most bokeh affects. 5-stars.