7artisans Photoelectric 35mm f/5.6 Lens for Leica M (Silver)

You've got to be kidding me. This lens is absurd for a rangefinder camera -in my case -a Leica M9. It is next to impossible to focus accurately. However, adapted, it works fairly well on my Hasselblad X. It definitely needs to be used on a camera with auto focus.

i love this lens! the size and focal length are so convenient. gave 4 instead of 5 because you close the lens cover by turning the focus ring beyond infinity, so sometimes if you turn the ring farther than you mean to you'll cover it and get a black image. otherwise its amazing: sharp, easy to use, and so compact. for street photography you can't do better, especially for the price.

I was expecting something like my LOMO LC-A. Which I would have loved... but this lens is actually far sharper. Easy to focus if you put on focus peaking on the Z 6. Fun, small, makes for a tiny street camera feeling. LOVE IT.

It's a pancake for the Nikon Z mount, which is an uncommon sight. I thought it'd be a great pocketable lens for my Z6, but after taking it out a few times, I stopped using it. The manual focus ring is narrow and has a very short focus throw, shorter and smaller than the Canon 50mm f/1.8. While it is nice to have a built-in lens cover, the mechanism is flawed. The cover slides over the lens when turning focus just beyond infinity. The result is many shots that are taken at infinity have some vignetting due to my own inability to stop at exactly infinity and not a hair more. It's a cool design and it is fairly sharp, but from a practical standpoint, it is too frustrating to use. The 35mm f/0.95 from 7Artisans looks like it has a much bigger focus ring with a longer throw.

This lens makes the whole FP setup very minimalistic and compact. Its fun to take around and it doesn't weight you down. I do use my FP with a smallrig wood grip to make it easier to hold, but even after that, the whole setup is very small. Now onto the lens Optical Quality: The lens is sharp when focus is nailed, but you do have quite a bit a depth of field with the aperture being fixed at f5.6. However the lens does exhibit a heavy vignette and the color on the edges of the frame have a cyan/blue cast. This can be problematic when editing raw files as you will need to create a preset or take the extra time to eliminate the cast from the photos. ***Some helpful tips to FP owners *** If you plan to shoot JPG like I did, you can actually dive into the menus on the Sigma FP to completely eliminate the color cast and get great out of camera JPGs (example pictures attached). In the Menu head to the following: Shoot 3rd Column Lens Optics Compensation Color Shading. Follow the direction on the screen and shoot a flat evenly illuminated target, then dial in -0.4 to -0.6 compensation for blue cast. That should fix the out of camera JPGs. Mechanical Build Quality: I wouldn't say its perfect as my new lens already showed areas that hadn't been completely coated and the face of the lens has a small scratch on the front disc that was coated over. So there are a few manufacturing mistakes here and there, but I can easily overlook it for the price and its not completely noticeable unless you look at the lens very closely. I think what is more important is the focus ring and the markings. The focus ring is smooth to turn and dampened well. It is very skinny which can be hard to grab for those with large fingers to grasp. It has a distinct detent area that lens you know when you hit infinity. If you turn past this point you will close the built in lens cap (which is awesome). The infinity point on my lens is pretty good, but still requires the slightest of adjustment to get perfect infinity focus between 10 and 15 feet away. Overall I would say its good, but not perfect. Also the focus ring is the same direction as canon and sigma lenses. This is awesome for me because that is what I am use to, but if you are coming from Nikon, Olympus, Fuji, Sony, etc this might feel a little bit weird. One thing to note is that the sigma lens bayonet caps do not fit on the back of the lens. Be sure to use the one that is supplied if you shoot with a lot of sigma lenses. I think that about does it for my review. I really enjoy the size of the lens and how convenient it is to bring and operate. The aperture will limit your shooting in dark environments but, with modern sensors as they are, you can definitely get away with 12800 iso. In my case I don't mind shoot has high as 25600 on the FP as the files are still great for sharing on the web and printing a 4x6 photo for my albums.

Lente simple y sumamente prctico y ligero para Street photography. Cuesta un poco adecuarse a su enfoque manual pero una vez dominado, brinda resultados muy agradables. Recomendado para la fotografa casual.