7artisans 25mm F1.8 Manual Focus Prime APS-C Fixed Lens for Sony Emount Cameras Like A7 A7II A7R A7RII A7S A7SII A6500 A6300 A6000 A5100 A5000 EX-3 NEX-3N NEX-3R NEX-C3 NEX-F3K NEX-5 NEX-5N (Black)

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IS small and its focus ring is not free wheeling but floats with a bit of resistance whenever I need to get focus from near to far and vice versa. The rear design of the lens has a bad design and rear lens caps do not securely lock and stay on, often falling off when in your camera bag. Considering the interior of my lens was a speckled mess, it is likely no quality control, which means a lot of really crap lenses get sent out. As for flare, depending on how you angle it towards the sun, it may exhibit the occasional flare but overall, I didn’t have many issues with this. does not come with a hood but with a lens so nicely compact, I’m not sure if I would even use the hood that much.

It’s possibly the least expensive lens option for your Fujifilm X camera, as I don’t know of any that are cheaper; however, this is a lens that you could capture some great pictures with because it has very sharp glass. the very shallow depth of field can make it a bit harder to focus, but I never have real trouble nailing it with focus peaking and the zoomed-in focus checking features Fujifilm has. It’s a nice lens to sort of mess around with or to learn manual focus, especially if you’re looking to casually shoot some black-and-white photography. doesn't have an optical image stabilization system so the only option to stabilize the image taken with this lens is to mount on a camera body with IBIS (sensor based In-body image stabilization). It does have some faults and quirks, but, considering how little it goes for, it’s easy to overlook those issues, and perhaps even embrace them.London Camera Exchange Limited, London Camera Exchange Solent Limited and London Camera Exchange Portsmouth Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, register numbers 742719, 761264, 789602 and act as a credit broker and not a lender. One difference that I found is Meike controls lens flare better, which is not necessarily saying much. What really made me give up on this lens is the fact that both lenses I got cannot focus to infinity.

which means it’ll see a lot of time on a camera given that the focal length makes it such a great all-around lens.It has 1 body, the Lumix 14-42mm and the 35-100mm and a minox-design pocket tripod; that gives me a 28-200 equivalent range. The front filter size is 46mm, which is that odd diameter in between the 43mm some Fujifilm lenses (that I have) use like the 23 and the 35mm f/2 and the more common (especially in film era lenses) 52mm thread. The focus ring is heavily-dampened and has a healthy throw making it easy to fine focus on fine details.

I opted for the silver version and it came with a matching silver bayonet lens hood (purchased via Aliexpress). After only a few days of using the lens, the aperture display ring (the ring that has the aperture tick on it), came loose and could spin freely. Macro review, and I will post it in the beginning of next week but now, I’m going to talk to you a little about the Photoelectric 25mm f1.

This was taken somewhere between f8 and f16 (remember there are no markings between these two aperture settings). When I started using the 25mm 7artisans I immediately noticed that my shutter speed was much higher than I’m used too. As you can see in the photos, it’s very compact; it kind of reminds me of older manual lenses, which is actually what drew me to the lens, and made me want to try it in the first place. SPIN is founded by Wilson and provides exposure to its members through travel photography, mentorship programs with National Geographic Indonesia, 500px and Scott Kelby Global Photowalks. I like this focal length for my day to day because it is still a standard lens as in they are close to human’s eyes focal length, but just a bit wider than a 50mm.

Just as with the "generic" lens makers from the film era - reviewers will help us to track down the truely great options; for example the famous Vivitar 55mm macro and the Vivitar Series 1 35-85mm f/2. It’s compact and weighted nicely making it a great lens to use with the Fuji bodies or other mirrorless cameras. The aperture ring is a little too easy to move and it’s very close to the focus ring so I find myself often nudging it by accident.

lens is a wide angle, and for the most part, it’s not as difficult to focus as a fast standard or telephoto lens.