Focus ring moves smoothly and accurately Cons:.

Good sharpness across the frame when stopped down.

This is very much a lens designed for the smaller sensor, and if you try to shoot it on full frame, you’ll get this (second photo shows the proper APS-C crop). The 50mm F0.95 did a fairly decent job of covering the larger full frame image circle, but that’s not the case here. This is designed for APS-C mirrorless cameras like Sony E (reviewed here), Nikon Z, Fuji X, M/43, Canon EF-M and RF). But here we are with a second focal length at F0.95 – in this case the new TTArtisan 35mm F0.95.

Lenses with maximum apertures like this are notoriously difficult to engineer, and it’s a somewhat surprising trend that these new small lens makers like TTArtisan are taking on such challenges.

They have also experimented with extremely large aperture lenses like TTArtisan’s 50mm F0.95 lens ( which I reviewed here). Whether it was a surprisingly sharp full frame fisheye lens, a shockingly competent macro lens that cost right over $100, or tiny little prime lenses like the 23mm F1.4 that are surprisingly competent…and cheap. TTArtisan has continued to surprise me with lenses that in some way exceed my expectations.

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