7artisans Photoelectric 35mm f/1.2 Lens for Canon EF-M, Silver

2022-05-04T08:48:45

So much style, so little cost.

EMILY B.

2021-07-14T09:59:29

Works as expected, and a very solid build.

ROBERT W.

2020-06-04T17:22:27

Not a full frame lens. It's listed as such but when I received it was obviously made for smaller sensors. Going to be returning it.

Angel R.

2020-03-19T07:59:41

This lens doesn't automatically get detected as an APS-C lens, so you manually have to choose that in order to shoot without a huge black ring on a full frame camera.. it is definitely not a full frame lens. The other downside I had is that the filter threads are recessed, I got a Bower 43mm UV filter which is pretty typical, but it won't actually thread onto this lens. Adorama stands behind the products and would have taken it back because of these issues, but considering the price and despite the limitations, I still wanted to keep it, it is still a fun lens to have in my arsenal!

SCOTT J.

2019-12-28T05:52:47

This item was listed as a full-frame Sony Lens, but was in fact designed for a crop sensor - leaving a pronounced vignette on my image.

John K.

2019-12-11T14:33:40

Nice, fast, solidly built budget compact manual prime lens. With a 35mm focal length (about 55mm FF equivalent field of view) it can be a good walk around/portrait lens. Is a full manual lens so it will be a good choice for those wanting to learn full manual (old-school) photography, being an amateur photog for over 40 yrs now I am very comfortable with manual and zone focusing. As is to be expected from a budget prime, has soft center-corners at f/1.2, but is acceptable; it sharpens nicely after f/2.8 with great edge to edge sharpness from f/5.6 on with very little diffraction at f/16, making this a good walk-around lens if you set the aperture f/5.6-f/8 with zone focusing (has a depth-of-field engraved on the barrel making zone focusing easy to achieve). The general color and contrast rendition of this lens is reminiscent of vintage lenses giving you images a film-like look (perhaps due to it's old-school sonar lens design). As expected from a fast aperture lens, it suffers from vignetting at f/1.2, becoming mostly a non-issue after f/4--not terrible but present. Chromatic aberration can be a problem at wide apertures but is well controlled at f/5.6 and beyond--again nothing surprising for a fast budget lens. The one issue I found with this lens is towards the corners, the image has a very noticeable smeared appearance that will not improve much at smaller apertures and is even present (though slightly better) at f/16. If you want to use the lens mainly for portraits, this will be a no issue. For general street photography however, this is certainly something to be aware of; you can easily shoot a wider than needed composition and crop the defective corners in post-production to get a pleasing photo. Overall is not a bad little lens for the price, as long as you are aware of it's optical shortcomings and plan ahead for those. If you don't mind a slightly slower prime, you can get similar solid build with better optical performance from the Meeke 35mm f/1.4 available for the fuji system at a very low price.

Carlos A.

2019-10-15T16:36:17

A plea to the powers that be: This would be my number one lens on micro four thirds if it were wider! This wonderful short tiny form factor somewhere between 15mm and 20mm would be so useful! As it is, 35mm is more of a portrait lens on micro four thirds (70mm equivalent), but it is wide enough to be a useful carry-around lens for maybe half of the things I try shooting. It's really too long a focal length for many indoor use cases, though. Anyway, here are my observations: I gave five stars for what this lens is, and its price point. Obviously, if super sharp photos and major tight cropping is your job, this is not for you. Honestly, I bought this lens because I love manual focus film cameras and the process of using a manual lens, and I love to keep things simple and portable. This 7artisans gave me what I wanted: a super fast prime manual lens that is as small as physically possible. This lens is wonderfully small. Compared to the Olympus Zuiko 25mm f/1.7, it isn't as sharp of course, but it's shorter, narrower, and has an amazingly fast wide aperture. And, I have to say, f/1.2 aperture would be not all that useful on a full frame camera, but it's a very usable depth on a crop sensor camera like MFT. Background blur is smooth and even; nice and very predictable. This lens doesn't have as much "character" as my old film camera lenses but it has better contrast than them and is still quite nice. The main downside of this lens is glare. You can get washed-out low-contrast glare *really* easily, and red and purple arcs across the frame too, depending on the angle of the light source. A hood is absolutely necessary under *many* conditions. Also, be aware that the aperture ring is smooth - no clicks! I know that video people like that, but yuck, when I'm taking photos I want to be able to tell by feel how much I'm changing the aperture by, and you can't. You have to stop, look at the lens, adjust, and go back to framing. The focus ring, on the other hand, is FANTASTIC. The infinity mark is very close to perfect, but just barely past infinity, and there's a hard stop right there, which I like; you can whip it around to infinity quickly by feel, which is great. And then, the swing from infinity down to one meter is a short smooth 40 degrees; super quick and easy to hit most focus points once you're used to it. The remaining swing from 1m down to 0.35m is, by comparison, really long; you can adjust the focus plane by very small increments for close up work, which is good too. The two photos attached are from today: The sun was to my back for the bumble bee, f/2-or-3-something-ish, ideal conditions for the shot, really. The pic of the grey cat had some serious glare coming from the lighting above and behind him, no hood. Ten similar shots had red arcs across them or total white washout across half the frame. This one shot was usable but still had a significant loss of contrast and the colors were a bit muddied up due to the glare.

JEFFREY W.

2019-09-18T15:47:55

Surprised with how nice the lens was for the price. I like the vignetting when it’s wide open.

Ellie R.