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It’s just too bad a lens like this wasn’t built by a company that knows what they’re doing because, with the incredible center sharpness and contrast, it would have been a really nice one Below are my own thoughts and opinions on the 7artisans 25mm f/1.8 lens.I paid for the lens with my own money and I am not sponsored or associated with 7artisans.By no means are my views scientific and should be taken with a grain of salt.Whether you agree or disagree, please let me know in the comments below! For value yes it is 5 stars. But I don't weigh it maybe as strongly as others. For the price, it's hard to get something better.
Compared to the Fujinon lenses, the 23mm f1.4 lens blows them both away here, but compared to the 27mm f2.8 lens, the 7Artisans lens is about the same. However, with the Fujinon lenses, there will be a built-in lens profile that corrects most of these problems with the RAW profile, so you’ll never actually see it like you will with the 7artisans lens. The same is true with Sony lenses when used in Sony cameras. Center sharpness is very good even wide open and hard to discern between the 7artisans vs. my Sony FE28mm F2.0. However corners are a complete different story. They are very soft wide open with vignetting and progressively get better to F8 - where it's pretty much gone. Here's a few samples from the Skerryvore concert I shot last night. Only PP was my standard NR and sharpening I use on all my concert photos, and some cropping.So that’s that, I feel like it’s a little cheaper than a Rokinon / Samyang lens because their lenses at least go a few months before falling apart.
As promised here's a follow-up comparison shots between 7artisans 25mm f1.8, Sony FE28mm f2.0, Sony PZ 18-105 f4.0.The color and contrast render very nicely. When compared to Fujifilm’s 23mm f1.4 and Fujifilm 27mm, it’s very hard to distinguish which lens has more tonal details. The 7Artisans is sharper so it throws the mind off slightly. Get it...You just need more experience reading the peaking function. Maybe this video ( https://youtu.be/aMShIo-fHcs ) will help you. I own a Zonlai 25mm and 35mm, you are a hard marker/reviewer I would give the 25mm better score than you more like 4 stars for quality and price weighting. You judge this lens wide open in all circumstances for a lens at this low price. You should conduct a similar review for much more expensive lenses from Leica or any branded lenses . considering their price would you give them 4 or more stars?
The focus ring has a throw of about 100° which makes it a little difficult to get precision focus, but this is fairly common for a manual 35mm lens. I took this picture this afternoon, shot in raw with only the Provia STD preset done in Lightroom Classic CC 7.3 release, camera raw 10.3. I did convert to DNG on import. There are some that would argue this is a bad idea, but it’s MY workflow. Focusing this thing can be troublesome. The focus throw is roughly 120°, which isn’t great. If you are focusing on something at about 3 feet (.91 meters) with the aperture opened wide, you will run into trouble. It took me a while to get the hang of it. One difference that I found is Meike controls lens flare better, which is not necessarily saying much. If you like flare, both of these lenses are for you. The 7artisans lens produces lots of flare whenever there is a bright light source nearby. It’s almost a bit over-the-top, and if you don’t like lens flare, be sure to buy a hood for this lens (something that I did after a couple weeks of use). I like lens flare sometimes, but it was much too much with this 7artisans lens. Maybe I am a hard reviewer. Just being honest. I didn't just judge wide open. I posted just as many shots stopped down. And I just follow-up with with a stop down comparison all the way to F16. One of the main issue I have is the corners don't get much better until F8, which makes F2-F7 not very useful.via Fuji's APS-C sensor) may seem an odd focal length, but the 24mm OVF frame shows no difference to the 25mm EVF, and most users would use the two interchangeably. The perspective is like the 38mm once favoured by film point and shoot cameras. If you want something wider than a FF 50mm and close to the theoretical human field of view, it's definitely worth a try. The only complaint I have is the focus scale, which is sufficiently at odds with the reality through the EVF to make scale/zone focus a non-starter. The barrel contains feet and metre distance engravings, progressing (in feet) from 0.6, 1, 2, 5, 16 and infinity markings. Subjects at approximately 5ft - pin sharp at f1.8 though the EVF - showed closer to the 16 ft than 5 ft markings, and the void between the two makes hyperfocal shooting a gamble. It's possible, but you'd have to work out your own sweet spot and most users will confirm distance through the viewfinder. I assume the discrepancy is the result of the same lens being produced for a variety of sensor formats.
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