I got it, Canon RF version, and I'm quite pleased to begin with. It's not a macro lens. At the minimum focus distance at f0.95 there's halo around everything, but at reasonable distances of a couple of meters the f0.95 aperture is very usable. Stop down to f1.4 for a much clearer picture if you like. Focus is surprisingly easy and accurate with very precise adjustment, and I'm getting good results in terms of both focus and composition. Make sure you use focus peaking and/or your magnify button. Color balance is surprisingly neutral and contrast is good for real scenes. I find it helps to under-expose by around a stop to get richer colors and avoid washing out anything. Flare and vignetting aren't a problem in practice. Although it's heavy, the experience of holding and shooting this lens on the R5 is pleasant. This type of lens slows you down and makes you compose carefully, rewarding you with a dreamy abstracted but still high quality look. I'd like to try it some more with people, but based on my first experiences good job @Star Brightin!
Man, I just came across your channel and I absolutely love your videos. You give clear, concise information and are very thorough. Thank you for taking the time to make these.
I think you admission that you missed focus is honest. I shoot with the Canon 50 f0.95 dream lens , so I know how important nailing focus can be. One tech you might try is focus braketing . Which is nailing focus and taking a few shots on either side of the what you think is in focus. Also I find focus peaking very helpful when shooting at f0.05. As far as this lens.. I am really impressed with the Image quality at f0.95 and it looks like a solid lens that is priced right. Getting a fast 50 can really be inspiring and I can see this lens being really fun to use.
Thanks for this video! Have you had a chance to test the Nikon 50mm f1.2 AIS? It seems to have similar features (fully manual, dreamy fully wide open), but I wanted to see what if you had a chance to demo that one as well. Lastly, would you think f0.95 vs f1.2 would make a big difference? How many stops/difference is that? Thanks!
Not just vignette, the edge blurs have double shadows. 9:21, 9:41 Probably good if one was to crop a vertical portrait shot out of these, but the complete frame looks bad.
Great review. It's good for the money but people who want it for astrphotography the chromatic abberation is a bit too much wide open and stars will have fringing around them even stopped to 1.4.
OK and am with you but more importantly, IT TESTS your camera's ability to perform or not, a 10x or more, magnification (In manual lens mode and on a pre shuttler release auto mode)
Thanks for the video. I'm just wondering how you managed to get sharp photos at all with open aperture - with a lens that has no electrical connection to the camera and a camera that has so few buttons. You can't even get focus magnification by turning the focus wheel! Could you at least get that by pressing a button?
These mega fast lens REALLY do test focussing skills. Visited a great retailer that sells excellent camera equipment, including Leica. One of the very knowledgeable sales staff stated that there had been more than one! customer complain about focus issues with the very pricey Noctilux - may have also been 0.95. To persuade customers that the lens could not be faulted, the retailer would arrange dedicated sessions and put camera and lens on a tripod for customer education session. No problems with the lens! However customers could still not master the combo and purchased a Summicron 50/2 or, if they were available, Noctilux 50 1.4. Apparently, the customers involved were not too fussed about the $s dropped on the .95 lens!. Long story short, despite very attractive price, this lens would present a few challenges!
Yes. Leica shooters (who actually buy Leica glass) are not too offended over their cost...they already know you have to pay to play in the Leica world.
Great review. However, there is a 5th reason to buy this lens. And that's FUN! You could have a great time playing around with 0.95, especially one that doesn't cost $20,000. Lets not forget that photography is about having fun, being creative or just snapping. Digital has got too serious (wonderful though it is). At $400 if you don't get on with it you can sell it without losing too much money.
It seems to me a huge opportunity, gone from the days of film is the split image finder. If someone can develop the focus aid electronically to reproduce the accuracy of a split image finder, this would be huge in a focusing aid . Focus peaking and punching in to get focus is great however when shooting portraits in quicker moving subject matter this tends to be a hindrance more than an aide.
I'd like to see 100% crop images at f0.95. Although your images look sharp, I can only view them at HD 1080p compressed video and so there's really no way to tell if there's a lot of residual spherical aberration (veiling flare or haze), which most f0.95 lenses have.
Well, for the adventurous, you can simply buy it yourself from Amazon and evaluate it to see if it meets your needs. If not, Amazon has an excellent return policy.
It seems cool. As you pointed out I think it would force you to improve bad habits and poor technique… I think a comparison between a higher dollar 0.95 is in order just to show folks what they are getting for the honor of having a fast manual lens
I agree. My first few full-frame lenses were AF. I wanted to add some fast primes to my kit; however, due to budget constraints I ended-up deciding-on MF lenses. I have the MF lenses Samyang for Sony full-frame: - 12mm F2.8 - 14mm F2.8 - 85mm F1. 4 Especially with the 85 F1.4, this really got me into focusing with Peaking and the EVF, and now I'm super used to it 😎 I might pick-up this "Brightin Star 50mm F0.95 MF" to replace my "Sony 50mm F1.8 AF" for portrait photography 😉
The only wish, OK few, is to have a 21 or + !! aperture for the optimal bokeh in bright conditions. Then a chips on the mount (Something in the way of Samyang's 14mm F2.8 Nikon mount) to talk to the camera's electronic for maintaining proper EXIF (Obviously the F - at least a reminder of F0.95 & Lens' name) for archive purposes. And finally, a longer focusing through. Lesser CA. Last but not least (In fact, the most important) Wish for a better internal glass design and fewer number elements, thus avoiding "Lemon" or "Football" bokeh (That I don't know why they call Cat's eye bokeh! (I know all about coloboma of iris! so, please don't explain...). Great review and sample images, indeed.
Nice smooth presentation but I question your use of the term onion ring. From the pictures you showed I don’t see the onion ring effect, may be a little soap bubble but that’s it.
Lenses like this were only available for a kings ransom back in the day yet people are bitching about them costing $400 dollars and not being perfect lol.
Maybe, it is focus issues and the focus isn't right on spot for most of them, but considering you can't miss to use peaking on a manual lens, the optical quality is straight out garbage. Very good vfm for instagram and social media creators but not professionals or even advanced amateurs. It has a very unique use, i must say. Bokeh rendering, cats eye, loca, green/purple fringing is just something you can't avoid for such a fast lens at this price. Well done, the manufacturer. Great job. Target it towards social creators and you have a hit product. Also, make sure to improvise on the product to get better at image quality and don't settle for it.
Yes, there are many social platforms. Life use and work use are two big scenes. Each lens has its own characteristics, and everyone has their own needs. After all, many people still have a lot of lens groups. When you need it , It’s fun to use
@@brightinstar Definitely agreed. You have a banger of a product. A little hint from my end, watch out for Nikon Z and Canon RF mount and if you guys can invest in a reverse engineering process to get something out for a Z5 or an RP, the lens would sell like hot cakes. There is a huge market for people who is just starting out with full frame, and as we all know, decent optics at 35mm and above is notoriously expensive. Good luck.
I personally think that, this lens and every other ones which are manual, cheap lenses are waste of money. Quality is lower, I am sure you can achieve better results with sigma 1.4, just only because lens is way better itself you can increase ISO more. And if you wants something budget, unique, manual and fast... Please check vintage lenses which are way better quality then this noname lenses
Eh...Even when stopped down to f2.0 the sharpness is kinda sub-par for a manual prime lens. 7artisans still the way to go for a budget manual lens category.
I am not toucing any Chinese lens anymore. I burnt my fingers with a Chinese made focal length reducer. One of the screws fell into the lightbox and damaged the shutter. The thread of the screw was over-threaded and the screw was not even secured with glue. If one goes manual then only Voigtlander, Zeiss or not at all.
Можно использовать на кропе, тогда виньетки не будет. А если дырку закрыть до 1.4, то хроматические оберации пропадут. Но на кропе наверно и закрывать не придется.
Wouldn't the Kamlan 50mm f1.1 Mark 2 be comparable? Not exactly as fast as this one, but almost.... and (as far as i know) much sharper and much cheaper.
wonderful review ... I think you'd definitely want AF on a lens like this, unless you're using it for product or architecture or tripod type nighttime photography wide open where you have time to get the focus spot-on ... almost all of your shots have focus issues IMO. That said, it looks like at f/0.95 one part of the eye will be in focus while another part of the SAME eye would be out of focus ... must be really hard to focus
I have a TTartisans 0.95, and its actually not as hard to focus as you'd think. Definitely is usable beyond architecture. The main thing is you have to be wise on your distance from the subject + the sharpness of this particular lens I think makes everything somewhat soft. It looks like he misses, but its just the lens crumbling in the sun. I've done talking head videos with no camera man, at 0.95, and it turns out fine suprisingly. Even when pixel peeping after. The TTartisans is the way to go.
I found that for most of these chinese f0.95 lenses, the light performance is more closer to a sigma f1.4, slightly brighter making it barely a f1.3. When compared to Sony apsc lenses, yeah they are more to the claims of f0.95. Sigma coming out on top, at least for APSC. Long story short, not all Fstops are created equal when it comes to actual light performance.
Source? I've seen many comparisons of the TTArtisans 50mm 0.95 (880 USD) vs the original Leica Noctuilux (13,000 USD), and the TTartisans looks nearly exactly the same. The only difference is the Leica is actually worse in sharpness chart tests, while have very very slightly more light. But nowhere near a 0.4 difference. Without T stop measurements, I think you're going to be prone to underestimating the Chinese versions.
I start with the good thing: The only surprise is that the look @0,95 is not hazy. Now the bad things: From a professional point of view it is unreasonable to buy such a lense because the operation is totally inconvinient. The lenshood-wobble means unreliability. It means to me that it will fall apart into bits and pieces after a fortnight of use. The red dot is oddly placed. The CA wow - shocking. Conclusion: It is a lens I would neither consider nor touch. For 400 bucks it is too expensive. It is half-baked. I believe that many people would be disappointed. It will become a paperweight sonner or later. I have seen too many people with GAS. If you decide to get rid of it because you are disappointed then this lens has no re-sale value. Edit, after seeing the video posted in the comments: It is hazy until F2. Get an older 50 f1.8 and you will be more happy. Brightin Star 50mm F0.95 is as bright as the glowing wick of a candle after it has been extinguished.
The lens has its own use scene. The night scene needs a better sense of atmosphere and experience. The aperture of F0.95 will bring new photography experience. These are not brought by F1.4 and F1.2. Slowly Go to focus and enjoy photography slowly
@@brightinstar You are missing the point. The lens does not perfom at f0,95. There are quality issues. I also don't care if a lens is f0,95 or f2.8 and the performance is weak. I have been using manual focus only lense for 30 years and I know what slow photograpgy means. I also know when a lens can deliver something. Unfortunately, this lens has no benefits towards good photography.
Brightin Star is basically a chinese knock off company that I wouldn't support. They took a bunch of older lens designs from other lens makers and marketed them, and even market the same exact lenses under different brand names. There's nothing great about the characteristics of this lens. It's barely sharp and only in the center, sharpness quickly falls off, and what is sharp mostly looks like camera shake because of how not sharp it is. It literally looks like almost every shot was taken handheld at 1/10th of a second. The bokeh isn't even that great either. There's a lot of lenses out there with flaws and characteristics, but this is just a lens that combines all the worst characteristics. Bad bokeh is acceptable when a lenses primary strength is being sharp as heck, like we see with some voightlander's or pentax's. This lens looks more like looking through an old sea captains eye piece. It's not even alluring for the flaws or a retro look, because there's nothing really retro about the look. It's just bad optics. I bet they only made it in metal because the glass was soo heavy that they knew they couldn't use other materials that would be able to support it's weight without something breaking or an element getting decentered, and I'm betting that issues will still crop up over time where elements become loose in the body or you start seeing some kind of chipped paint coming off inside the lens from friction with the elements against the body. Remember, a good lens is more important than the camera, and this is not a good lens. Also the focal length isn't great for a 0.95. Either make it 85mm or 100mm or something like 24mm. An 85 would provide more bokeh while also increasing DOF because of the extra distance needed to get the same framing. The 24mm would also gain more DOF by simply being wider. Still though, I doubt the optical quality would be there, but at least with a 24mm the perspective would naturally be distorted anyways, so the bad characteristics wouldn't look as out of place.
Thank you for your request. For the F0.95 lens, the sense of atmosphere is more important than the sharpness. The size, weight, and price will all determine the relationship of sharpness, but it is still more important to define the use scene of the lens. Take it out at night and take some photos with a different experience. It’s fun
@@brightinstar I get it, but the voightlander 40mm 1.4 has been around for a long time and is known for its sharpness and vintage characteristics for $400. Granted it's not a f/0.95, but 1.4 isn't that far off, and it's superior in every way except the aperture. At this price point, the only real reason to get an f 0.95 is to brag that you have an f/0.95, because a couple of stops doesn't mean much when you're at 50mm handheld and already at 1/10th of a second or worse at night time. At that point, it doesn't matter if you're using f/1.4 or f/0.95, you'll be using a tripod anyways. The range of low light usefulness is soo narrow with fast lenses in general. 5 minutes at sunset can mean the difference between taking a shot handheld, or using a tripod, or upping the ISO substantially. I think most people would rather shoot at 400 ISO with better lens characteristics, rather than at 100 ISO with this lens. Which they can already do, at the same price point, with the voightlander 40mm 1.4. It's hard to say who exactly this lens would be for, even if people are buying it, I feel like they will eventually wonder why they bought it. Granted I don't think the price is outrageous, but considering other existing lenses, this one becomes a bit more than redundant, because it's not only priced similarly, it's also not as good as the other existing lenses, even if it is standing alone with f/0.95, that can only go soo far. Now if it was a $250 lens, then yeah, it would pull ahead just out of the affordability. I'm not saying that's what it should be, if it even is affordable to make it that cheap, but that's the only thing I can picture that would make it pull ahead of the voightlander, otherwise the voightlander is the better choice every time. Another problem with f/0.95 is that it's not only limited in low light usability as discussed previously, but also in daylight usability. You need some pretty fast shutter speeds to take daylight pictures at f/0.95. Having owned f/1.8 lenses, I know that on a bright day, even 1/8000th shutter speed can be not enough to not blow out the exposure of the sky at ISO 100. So outdoor daylight use at f/0.95 purely for the slim DOF, would need shutter speeds that most camera's, even professional ones, don't come close to having, except with electronic shutter rather than mechanical, and there are many popular camera's that wouldn't even have an electronic shutter speed fast enough to shoot f/0.95 on a bright sunny day, making this lens completely useless at f/0.95 under those common circumstances. I think this lens could have had some characteristics artificially induced. For example, if the DOF was mostly flat in the center but more curved toward the edges to make very blurry/smeary edges, but very sharp in the center, you could have had a really unique lens that simulated old style wet plate images. If you don't know what wet plate images look like, I suggest you give them a google image search and look at a few dozen. Now that is something that would set your product and business apart and could potentially put you on the map, creating a very well liked "sense of atmosphere". I'd buy that lens, and I'd imagine that tons of people would flock to it too, I could see it becoming a long standing trend for everything from instagram portraits to landscape. It is a look that is just waiting to come back into style....it actually never went out of style, it's just that the lenses for them haven't been made for any new cameras, only for very old large format cameras. If I were you and I had the proper departments ear, that's exactly what I would be pushing to develop at least as a prototype to see how it turns out, then put it in full production if it turns out well. It seems almost like lens baby territory, but lens baby lenses are primarily just toys. The wet plate look is a tried and true look and style, while lens baby lenses are more silly in nature. The wet plate look is a serious, evocative look that creates a sense of atmosphere, and gravity to go along with it.
Thank you for your evaluation, we will continue to optimize our products and bring a better experience
Bring an AF version too 🙏🏼
@@mounishvijay3840 You know that this emote is not "praying", right?
@@m4rcin847 who said anything about praying
@@mounishvijay3840 Has any company ever made an f/0.95 with AF? It would probably make the lens absolutely massive.
I got it, Canon RF version, and I'm quite pleased to begin with. It's not a macro lens. At the minimum focus distance at f0.95 there's halo around everything, but at reasonable distances of a couple of meters the f0.95 aperture is very usable. Stop down to f1.4 for a much clearer picture if you like. Focus is surprisingly easy and accurate with very precise adjustment, and I'm getting good results in terms of both focus and composition. Make sure you use focus peaking and/or your magnify button. Color balance is surprisingly neutral and contrast is good for real scenes. I find it helps to under-expose by around a stop to get richer colors and avoid washing out anything. Flare and vignetting aren't a problem in practice. Although it's heavy, the experience of holding and shooting this lens on the R5 is pleasant. This type of lens slows you down and makes you compose carefully, rewarding you with a dreamy abstracted but still high quality look. I'd like to try it some more with people, but based on my first experiences good job @Star Brightin!
Man, I just came across your channel and I absolutely love your videos. You give clear, concise information and are very thorough. Thank you for taking the time to make these.
Good video man, been loving your videos videos lately. Very informal. And would love to see more!
Such a gorgeous model!
I’d love one of these for some retro moody black and white portraits and I wouldn’t mind missing the focus :)
Great video as always.
Wow this lens is amazing 😯😯. Great video
This video was a lot of fun. I'd love to see a video on a crop body with the corners effectively cut off
I think you admission that you missed focus is honest. I shoot with the Canon 50 f0.95 dream lens , so I know how important nailing focus can be. One tech you might try is
focus braketing . Which is nailing focus and taking a few shots on either side of the what you think is in focus. Also I find focus peaking very helpful when shooting at f0.05. As far as this lens.. I am really impressed with the Image quality at f0.95 and it looks like a solid lens that is priced right. Getting a fast 50 can really be inspiring and I can see this lens being really fun to use.
Seems a rebranding of mitakon, very well done video. Thank you
Great video as always. Why don't you do a video on your version of settings on Cameras..
need this !
Thanks for this video! Have you had a chance to test the Nikon 50mm f1.2 AIS? It seems to have similar features (fully manual, dreamy fully wide open), but I wanted to see what if you had a chance to demo that one as well. Lastly, would you think f0.95 vs f1.2 would make a big difference? How many stops/difference is that? Thanks!
*what Program do you use when comparing your Photo's cause that's pretty useful*
How does the recently reviewed 7Artisans 50/1.05 compare to the BrightinStar on your A7c?
Good job!
I like how soft it looks.
Not just vignette, the edge blurs have double shadows. 9:21, 9:41
Probably good if one was to crop a vertical portrait shot out of these, but the complete frame looks bad.
Great review. It's good for the money but people who want it for astrphotography the chromatic abberation is a bit too much wide open and stars will have fringing around them even stopped to 1.4.
Nailing focus on a 0.95 lens tests your skill
It's not about nailing focus, its about boukaaah
@@towermedia5940 Um, ok
OK and am with you but more importantly, IT TESTS your camera's ability to perform or not, a 10x or more, magnification (In manual lens mode and on a pre shuttler release auto mode)
dope review i'm still using my kamlan 50mm f1.1 😂
Thanks for the video. I'm just wondering how you managed to get sharp photos at all with open aperture - with a lens that has no electrical connection to the camera and a camera that has so few buttons. You can't even get focus magnification by turning the focus wheel! Could you at least get that by pressing a button?
Please compare the Sony 10-18mm Vs Tamron 11-20mm on aps c. I'm really interested how the two lenses compare in image quality and viewing angles.
These mega fast lens REALLY do test focussing skills.
Visited a great retailer that sells excellent camera equipment, including Leica. One of the very knowledgeable sales staff stated that there had been more than one! customer complain about focus issues with the very pricey Noctilux - may have also been 0.95.
To persuade customers that the lens could not be faulted, the retailer would arrange dedicated sessions and put camera and lens on a tripod for customer education session.
No problems with the lens!
However customers could still not master the combo and purchased a Summicron 50/2 or, if they were available, Noctilux 50 1.4.
Apparently, the customers involved were not too fussed about the $s dropped on the .95 lens!.
Long story short, despite very attractive price, this lens would present a few challenges!
Yes. Leica shooters (who actually buy Leica glass) are not too offended over their cost...they already know you have to pay to play in the Leica world.
Great review. However, there is a 5th reason to buy this lens. And that's FUN! You could have a great time playing around with 0.95, especially one that doesn't cost $20,000. Lets not forget that photography is about having fun, being creative or just snapping. Digital has got too serious (wonderful though it is). At $400 if you don't get on with it you can sell it without losing too much money.
Hey arthur can u make a video on zve10 and how does it compares with a6400
You look like the Hoovie's Garage alternate reality camera version but I like it, cool video and review
Love to see this compared to the laowa argus on APSC
You read my mind. Only the other wish or love would be to see that product in near this lens' price tag!
OK, I am a dreamer!
It seems to me a huge opportunity, gone from the days of film is the split image finder. If someone can develop the focus aid electronically to reproduce the accuracy of a split image finder, this would be huge in a focusing aid . Focus peaking and punching in to get focus is great however when shooting portraits in quicker moving subject matter this tends to be a hindrance more than an aide.
canon does this, however only works for lenses with electronic contacts.
Fuji xt1 and newer have it)
heyyyyyyyyy !!! please make video about zv-e10 with diff lenses and photo video quality comparison
Hey we need a camera review on sony zev 10 , and it's comparison with alpha series like a6400 ???
I think i'll get this and then Full-spectrum mod my A7S. want to be able to see during a new moon lmao
Very nice
You look like Hoovies Garage, this distubs me a lot.
Love your videos as always.
I want one!
Since manual focus how can you focus on the eye if its a full body picture? Or would it just focus on the center of the body?
Will you review the 35mm 0.95 for aps-c?
Can you please review the Brightin Star 35mm 0.95 apsc lens? It's very good, I just bought it.
Do they make similar lens for Fujifilm ?
Great content as usual. That price is insane, I'd love to hear your opinion between it and TTArtisan 50mm f0.95.
Its coming soon!
@@ArthurR Expecting!!
Hi Arthur, tamron 18-300 lens review please. Its released now.
I'd like to see 100% crop images at f0.95. Although your images look sharp, I can only view them at HD 1080p compressed video and so there's really no way to tell if there's a lot of residual spherical aberration (veiling flare or haze), which most f0.95 lenses have.
Well, if you happen to buy one please share a link to some cropped or even raw images in a comment here 😆👍
@@EclecticLensYT Richard Wong shows us here:
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Well, for the adventurous, you can simply buy it yourself from Amazon and evaluate it to see if it meets your needs. If not, Amazon has an excellent return policy.
It seems cool. As you pointed out I think it would force you to improve bad habits and poor technique… I think a comparison between a higher dollar 0.95 is in order just to show folks what they are getting for the honor of having a fast manual lens
I agree.
My first few full-frame lenses were AF.
I wanted to add some fast primes to my kit; however, due to budget constraints I ended-up deciding-on MF lenses.
I have the MF lenses Samyang for Sony full-frame:
- 12mm F2.8
- 14mm F2.8
- 85mm F1. 4
Especially with the 85 F1.4, this really got me into focusing with Peaking and the EVF, and now I'm super used to it 😎
I might pick-up this "Brightin Star 50mm F0.95 MF" to replace my "Sony 50mm F1.8 AF" for portrait photography 😉
Yeah, the good old 50F1.8 seems absolutely fine. No need for even cheaper looking pictures :)
is it better than the TTArtisan 50mm F0.95? idk which to buy
There’s crazy
Nice vid, thanks. Regarding video: I wonder how this lens might work with that DJI lidar autofocus thingy for their Ronin gimbal…?
That would be a challenge!
piece of ship got me lol😂
Can you use it on a a6000?
Wow, that looks like a fun lens to have. I have the 7artisans 50mm f/1.1 Leica M-mount. It's pretty bad at f/1.1. It gets better as you stop down.
Have you tried star photos?
I'm not sure if you have already but can you review an affordable 14mm or 20mm f1.8 lens. Not trying to break the bank 😅.
Como saber se serve em nikon, canon, sony e etc?
can't believe this channel has only 173K subs...
Hi Arthur, wish you had also tested this lens on APS-C.
Like it.
Is this an Hooptie lens ?
I'm no longer interested in apsc for the most, but this with speed booster would create f0.67 35mm monster...
Is the review of 7artisans 50mm f/0.95 for apsc in the pipeline?
Yes, it is coming.
Dislike the lens, but loved the review! Well done Arthur!
My n°1 issue with FF: not enough depht of field :))
Because stopping lens down is impossibru? :D
@@PosranaRegistrace of course but then you loose light.
laowa 35mm 0.95 please 🔥🔥
This has more 3d look than sigma 50 1.4 and other modern 50mm glass
The only wish, OK few, is to have a 21 or + !! aperture for the optimal bokeh in bright conditions. Then a chips on the mount (Something in the way of Samyang's 14mm F2.8 Nikon mount) to talk to the camera's electronic for maintaining proper EXIF (Obviously the F - at least a reminder of F0.95 & Lens' name) for archive purposes. And finally, a longer focusing through. Lesser CA. Last but not least (In fact, the most important) Wish for a better internal glass design and fewer number elements, thus avoiding "Lemon" or "Football" bokeh (That I don't know why they call Cat's eye bokeh! (I know all about coloboma of iris! so, please don't explain...).
Great review and sample images, indeed.
Nice smooth presentation but I question your use of the term onion ring. From the pictures you showed I don’t see the onion ring effect, may be a little soap bubble but that’s it.
Fair enough. A faint outline.
Lenses like this were only available for a kings ransom back in the day yet people are bitching about them costing $400 dollars and not being perfect lol.
Спасибо Артур, ролики очень интересные. Привет из России😊
Maybe, it is focus issues and the focus isn't right on spot for most of them, but considering you can't miss to use peaking on a manual lens, the optical quality is straight out garbage. Very good vfm for instagram and social media creators but not professionals or even advanced amateurs. It has a very unique use, i must say. Bokeh rendering, cats eye, loca, green/purple fringing is just something you can't avoid for such a fast lens at this price. Well done, the manufacturer. Great job. Target it towards social creators and you have a hit product. Also, make sure to improvise on the product to get better at image quality and don't settle for it.
Yes, there are many social platforms. Life use and work use are two big scenes. Each lens has its own characteristics, and everyone has their own needs. After all, many people still have a lot of lens groups. When you need it , It’s fun to use
@@brightinstar Definitely agreed. You have a banger of a product. A little hint from my end, watch out for Nikon Z and Canon RF mount and if you guys can invest in a reverse engineering process to get something out for a Z5 or an RP, the lens would sell like hot cakes. There is a huge market for people who is just starting out with full frame, and as we all know, decent optics at 35mm and above is notoriously expensive. Good luck.
yo art u never reviewed the Tamron 18-200 lol
The CA is very noticeable on this lens.
👍😀
I personally think that, this lens and every other ones which are manual, cheap lenses are waste of money. Quality is lower, I am sure you can achieve better results with sigma 1.4, just only because lens is way better itself you can increase ISO more. And if you wants something budget, unique, manual and fast... Please check vintage lenses which are way better quality then this noname lenses
The lens is a full-frame micro-single mount, RF/Z/L/E, for these cameras, for old lenses, an adapter ring is required
Wait is this Technology Mafia?
Eh...Even when stopped down to f2.0 the sharpness is kinda sub-par for a manual prime lens. 7artisans still the way to go for a budget manual lens category.
I am not toucing any Chinese lens anymore. I burnt my fingers with a Chinese made focal length reducer. One of the screws fell into the lightbox and damaged the shutter. The thread of the screw was over-threaded and the screw was not even secured with glue. If one goes manual then only Voigtlander, Zeiss or not at all.
Hey bro please give me one camera please please please please reply
I mean for the price you can't really ask more.
Можно использовать на кропе, тогда виньетки не будет. А если дырку закрыть до 1.4, то хроматические оберации пропадут. Но на кропе наверно и закрывать не придется.
Why dont they make a version for RF and Z
I believe for full frame, it is the F1.05 version
With RF mount and Z mount
Why didn't you show us what it was like for the video?
Why you don't testing video at night? Its so important
Wouldn't the Kamlan 50mm f1.1 Mark 2 be comparable? Not exactly as fast as this one, but almost.... and (as far as i know) much sharper and much cheaper.
The difference is that we are a full-frame lens, RF/E/Z/L
@@brightinstar Thanks.... my mistake, i forgot about that.
wonderful review ... I think you'd definitely want AF on a lens like this, unless you're using it for product or architecture or tripod type nighttime photography wide open where you have time to get the focus spot-on ... almost all of your shots have focus issues IMO. That said, it looks like at f/0.95 one part of the eye will be in focus while another part of the SAME eye would be out of focus ... must be really hard to focus
I have a TTartisans 0.95, and its actually not as hard to focus as you'd think. Definitely is usable beyond architecture. The main thing is you have to be wise on your distance from the subject + the sharpness of this particular lens I think makes everything somewhat soft. It looks like he misses, but its just the lens crumbling in the sun. I've done talking head videos with no camera man, at 0.95, and it turns out fine suprisingly. Even when pixel peeping after. The TTartisans is the way to go.
But why manual focus? It is so annoying for me.
Basically a lens with night vision lol
I can’t keep up with all these Chinese lens makers. Is this another 7artisan lens, just rebranded?
Good luck focusing that.
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Personally I see the lack of creaminess as an advantage over the competition. Creamy backgrounds look very artificial and unrealistic.
the result has been revealed for me that's not interesting
Ich kann ein Melonenobjektiv für 10 Stutz bauen, mit einer unglaublichen Blende von 0.8
I found that for most of these chinese f0.95 lenses, the light performance is more closer to a sigma f1.4, slightly brighter making it barely a f1.3. When compared to Sony apsc lenses, yeah they are more to the claims of f0.95. Sigma coming out on top, at least for APSC. Long story short, not all Fstops are created equal when it comes to actual light performance.
Source? I've seen many comparisons of the TTArtisans 50mm 0.95 (880 USD) vs the original Leica Noctuilux (13,000 USD), and the TTartisans looks nearly exactly the same. The only difference is the Leica is actually worse in sharpness chart tests, while have very very slightly more light. But nowhere near a 0.4 difference. Without T stop measurements, I think you're going to be prone to underestimating the Chinese versions.
Bokeh is so so, a lot of cat's eye bubbles
I don’t know man….I know it’s very subjective but there’s something about the bokeh of this lens I really don’t like. It looks kinda ugly.
Its definitely 'different"
I start with the good thing: The only surprise is that the look @0,95 is not hazy.
Now the bad things:
From a professional point of view it is unreasonable to buy such a lense because the operation is totally inconvinient. The lenshood-wobble means unreliability. It means to me that it will fall apart into bits and pieces after a fortnight of use. The red dot is oddly placed. The CA wow - shocking.
Conclusion:
It is a lens I would neither consider nor touch. For 400 bucks it is too expensive. It is half-baked.
I believe that many people would be disappointed. It will become a paperweight sonner or later. I have seen too many people with GAS. If you decide to get rid of it because you are disappointed then this lens has no re-sale value.
Edit, after seeing the video posted in the comments:
It is hazy until F2. Get an older 50 f1.8 and you will be more happy. Brightin Star 50mm F0.95 is as bright as the glowing wick of a candle after it has been extinguished.
The lens has its own use scene. The night scene needs a better sense of atmosphere and experience. The aperture of F0.95 will bring new photography experience. These are not brought by F1.4 and F1.2. Slowly Go to focus and enjoy photography slowly
@@brightinstar You are missing the point. The lens does not perfom at f0,95. There are quality issues.
I also don't care if a lens is f0,95 or f2.8 and the performance is weak. I have been using manual focus only lense for 30 years and I know what slow photograpgy means. I also know when a lens can deliver something. Unfortunately, this lens has no benefits towards good photography.
takes a pretty crappy picture if you ask me
Brightin Star is basically a chinese knock off company that I wouldn't support. They took a bunch of older lens designs from other lens makers and marketed them, and even market the same exact lenses under different brand names. There's nothing great about the characteristics of this lens. It's barely sharp and only in the center, sharpness quickly falls off, and what is sharp mostly looks like camera shake because of how not sharp it is. It literally looks like almost every shot was taken handheld at 1/10th of a second. The bokeh isn't even that great either. There's a lot of lenses out there with flaws and characteristics, but this is just a lens that combines all the worst characteristics.
Bad bokeh is acceptable when a lenses primary strength is being sharp as heck, like we see with some voightlander's or pentax's. This lens looks more like looking through an old sea captains eye piece. It's not even alluring for the flaws or a retro look, because there's nothing really retro about the look. It's just bad optics.
I bet they only made it in metal because the glass was soo heavy that they knew they couldn't use other materials that would be able to support it's weight without something breaking or an element getting decentered, and I'm betting that issues will still crop up over time where elements become loose in the body or you start seeing some kind of chipped paint coming off inside the lens from friction with the elements against the body.
Remember, a good lens is more important than the camera, and this is not a good lens. Also the focal length isn't great for a 0.95. Either make it 85mm or 100mm or something like 24mm. An 85 would provide more bokeh while also increasing DOF because of the extra distance needed to get the same framing. The 24mm would also gain more DOF by simply being wider. Still though, I doubt the optical quality would be there, but at least with a 24mm the perspective would naturally be distorted anyways, so the bad characteristics wouldn't look as out of place.
Thank you for your request. For the F0.95 lens, the sense of atmosphere is more important than the sharpness. The size, weight, and price will all determine the relationship of sharpness, but it is still more important to define the use scene of the lens. Take it out at night and take some photos with a different experience. It’s fun
@@brightinstar I get it, but the voightlander 40mm 1.4 has been around for a long time and is known for its sharpness and vintage characteristics for $400. Granted it's not a f/0.95, but 1.4 isn't that far off, and it's superior in every way except the aperture. At this price point, the only real reason to get an f 0.95 is to brag that you have an f/0.95, because a couple of stops doesn't mean much when you're at 50mm handheld and already at 1/10th of a second or worse at night time. At that point, it doesn't matter if you're using f/1.4 or f/0.95, you'll be using a tripod anyways.
The range of low light usefulness is soo narrow with fast lenses in general. 5 minutes at sunset can mean the difference between taking a shot handheld, or using a tripod, or upping the ISO substantially. I think most people would rather shoot at 400 ISO with better lens characteristics, rather than at 100 ISO with this lens. Which they can already do, at the same price point, with the voightlander 40mm 1.4.
It's hard to say who exactly this lens would be for, even if people are buying it, I feel like they will eventually wonder why they bought it. Granted I don't think the price is outrageous, but considering other existing lenses, this one becomes a bit more than redundant, because it's not only priced similarly, it's also not as good as the other existing lenses, even if it is standing alone with f/0.95, that can only go soo far. Now if it was a $250 lens, then yeah, it would pull ahead just out of the affordability. I'm not saying that's what it should be, if it even is affordable to make it that cheap, but that's the only thing I can picture that would make it pull ahead of the voightlander, otherwise the voightlander is the better choice every time.
Another problem with f/0.95 is that it's not only limited in low light usability as discussed previously, but also in daylight usability. You need some pretty fast shutter speeds to take daylight pictures at f/0.95. Having owned f/1.8 lenses, I know that on a bright day, even 1/8000th shutter speed can be not enough to not blow out the exposure of the sky at ISO 100. So outdoor daylight use at f/0.95 purely for the slim DOF, would need shutter speeds that most camera's, even professional ones, don't come close to having, except with electronic shutter rather than mechanical, and there are many popular camera's that wouldn't even have an electronic shutter speed fast enough to shoot f/0.95 on a bright sunny day, making this lens completely useless at f/0.95 under those common circumstances.
I think this lens could have had some characteristics artificially induced. For example, if the DOF was mostly flat in the center but more curved toward the edges to make very blurry/smeary edges, but very sharp in the center, you could have had a really unique lens that simulated old style wet plate images. If you don't know what wet plate images look like, I suggest you give them a google image search and look at a few dozen. Now that is something that would set your product and business apart and could potentially put you on the map, creating a very well liked "sense of atmosphere".
I'd buy that lens, and I'd imagine that tons of people would flock to it too, I could see it becoming a long standing trend for everything from instagram portraits to landscape. It is a look that is just waiting to come back into style....it actually never went out of style, it's just that the lenses for them haven't been made for any new cameras, only for very old large format cameras. If I were you and I had the proper departments ear, that's exactly what I would be pushing to develop at least as a prototype to see how it turns out, then put it in full production if it turns out well.
It seems almost like lens baby territory, but lens baby lenses are primarily just toys. The wet plate look is a tried and true look and style, while lens baby lenses are more silly in nature. The wet plate look is a serious, evocative look that creates a sense of atmosphere, and gravity to go along with it.
Not paying $400 for a Chinese toy that costs $20 to make.