50-millimeter 1.1 Lens for Leica M-Mount. This lens is pretty interesting, it's a

$370 M-Mount 50-millimeter 1.1 lens

which is pretty crazy. It's made by a Chinese company in Shenzhen called

7artisans. They have a line of a few lenses that are all ridiculously

low-priced. Build quality is fantastic, it feels like

a Leica-made lens. It feels like it's made out of brass it's actually made out

of anodized aluminum. Finish is awesome it matches the Leica M6 pretty closely.

Looks really cool on this camera. The lens clicks into place really solidly so

there isn't any kind of like manufacturing flaws in my copy of the

lens. I've heard some other reviews on Amazon talking about poor build quality

like quality control with you know some of the aperture ring like coming loose and like

falling off or something I mean this one feels as high quality as the

Voigtlander lenses that I have. It feels pretty substantial in the hand which is

awesome. The aperture is very smooth moving, the focus is extremely smooth,

definitely yeah feels high quality. The lens actually comes pretty decently

packed. The box looks pretty nice and the logo in the front with a red seven on it. The

lens package inside of laser-cut foam so it's pretty nice when you open it up

inside the box there's a focusing chart and a little screw driver that's

actually there to give you the option to calibrate the back or front focus. If you

have any issues with those there's instructions in Chinese and English.

Comes with a little screw driver for doing that as well too. My package came

with a little focusing tab that's adhesive that you can stick on the lens

similar to other rangefinder lenses. It also comes with a metal friction-fit

lens cap that has the logo on the front and feels very high quality too. So this

lens is 50-millimeter 1.1 it goes one point one all the way to f/16. The

aperture ring is be clicked which is kind of nifty kind of sucks depends on

what you use it for. Video it's nice because you can change your aperture

smoothly. Film shooters and people that are using it kind of for photos might

find it annoying because you can't tell by feel what aperture you're at. The

minimum focus distance on this lens is 0.7 meters or 2-feet

There's also a hyper focal distance scale on the on the lens which is really

useful for zone focusing. I was actually pretty surprised by the

image quality of the lens. I wasn't really expecting a whole lot since it's

a kind of a knockoff of a Notcilux but wide open the lens is actually decently

sharp in the center although the corners are pretty soft. The lens sharpens up a

lot even as soon as you get to 1.4 and then quite a bit by 2.8

and f/4. The corners are pretty bad wide open even by f/8 and f/16 the lens

still has a pretty soft corner so as long as you're not framing super far

into the corners it shouldn't be a huge issue because the center does sharpen up

quite a bit. The lens also displays a kind of interesting glowing effect to

some of the highlights that I think is actually pretty cool. So this lens actually

vignettes quite a bit wide open it gets a little bit better by the time you get

to f/4. I've found that using the ZY Optics 50-millimeter lens

calibration preset in Lightroom actually gets me pretty close to adjusting

for the vignetting and the barrel distortion

at f/1.1. When you're at the close focus distance on this lens the

bokeh is kind of crazy it looks busy kind of looks like it's

shooting into the center of the frame like you're zooming a lens in real quick

while you're taking a picture, so it kind of looks like there's motion

pointing towards the center of the frame and it sort of changes depending on the

distance you are from your subject but I guess some people might like and you can

use it creatively but it might be a little intense for everyone

all the time. It's actually a pretty decent lens. I was very surprised I

thought it was going to suck and it kind of didn't, so it's pretty cool.

Yeah $370 for a 50 millimeter lens that goes on Leica M-Mount it it's pretty

cool. so yeah there'll be more videos like this in the future so like and

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