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Very interesting video. TTArtisan certainly doing some fabulous lenses, their 25mm f2 is a wee cracker! Recently picked up their 50mm f2, hope to get out with it soon.

Nice option! Thanks for sharing

I know you're mainly a digital channel, but I for one am extremely happy that anyone today is making a lens perfectly compatible with analogue cameras with M42 or Pentax K mount. Also very excited about the new 75/1.5 Biotar remake. And I'm not surprised in the slightest that this lens covers the tiny digital "medium" format sensor, 105mm was the standard focal length for 6x9cm format cameras, 75-80mm for 6x4.5 and 6x6, triplets like this were often used on the budget models.

Thank you Greg for testing lenses like this on GFX! It can sometimes be so hard to find what does/doesn't cover the sensor.

Looks like an interesting lens ...🦘

Love the photos you got!

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Does anyone know if there’s an nd filter for this lens ? I have an Sony zve10 and most of the time I record on slog 2

I use it on an X-T3 for astrophotography. Give it a try! Great video by the way!

Thanks for the great review mate.

Hi Greg! Great video. I found this trying to find ways to fix my X100S camera. After a bushwalk - where it might got some pressure on it or something, I am not sure - I could not use it anymore. When I turn it on, the viewfinder only goes grey, and I can’t take any photos. Can’t turn it of again either. Do you by any chance have any idea what I can do with it? Cheers mate

According to you is it possible to take close up portraits, or the focus distance does not allow you to do so? Consider using an aps-c. Thanks for help

I started watching your channel with the Konica iia video but after seeing your whole list of videos I find soooo much interesting stuff. Some of it reeeeally interesting. It’s gonna be a long weekend I know ☕️🙌

Mine arrived a couple of days ago. I just found out it has some advance issues from time to time but man what a beautiful designed piece of gear. It’s absolutely gorgeous. I still have to finish my first roll and look at what this beautiful Hexanon can do. This camera is really something special.

I was thinking about this as I was driving earlier today. If I had that lens, I would want to get a second lens cap, cut the centre out, superglue a step-up ring to the outside (with the assistance of a strip of plastic from the bottom of a Woolworths bag if necessary) and screw a protective filter in. I watched something recently from a chap discussing whether it was better to leave the objective lens unencumbered by extra glass, and depend on the hood, or tu use a UV/Skylight filter or such and maybe lose a little light. He decided after his camera swung as he was picking his way down a rocky path and the hood helped centre a jutting out rock on his new and expensive lens. That lens would be around 11mm on a full frame camera, I guess?

I have that lens for a few years now, I think I bought it pretty soon after I bought my first Fuji camera. I really like it! It's not something I use a lot, but it has some great uses. Some of my favourite picture were taken with this lens. And it's small enough that you can just put it in your bag pretty much any time.

Great lens. Proof that sometimes you have to ignore the hype re the big brand names and just enjoy ( sometimes ) the less sharp lenses with there own look or style. Me I used to buy only expensive filters because you must have big brand names on ur expensive lens HYPE. Now I have tried Amazon polarised lenses ( very cheap ) guess what they are great. So cheap I can afford to have one for every lens size . Anyway love your channel my friend. Love ur no BS style and I feel like I am just listening to an old friend. Great as usual .

Thats very cheap. 7.5mm would be more impressive on a full frame body. An occasional fisheye can add some spice to a shoot... 🦘

I recently got an x-t20, but i wanted a pocket camera aswell, and was considering the x70, but i decided to go for the xq2, which the smallest x-series camera and is really worth it as a second backup camera. It doesn't have the analog top dials, but it does have a front control ring on the 4x optical zoom lens to control aperture (f1.8), and the d-pad is customisable with the push of an E-Fn button, for iso, focus modes, etc. In manual mode, its easy to change the shutter speed. And it has 6 film simulations, with monochrome including the yellow, green, and red filters. The xq2 has classic chrome, where the xq1 doesn't. Its much better than i expected it to be.

Hi do you have any experience in fixing the x100f? I have a sticky aperture blades problem but couldnt find any info online.

I've got the exact lens on a Praktica LTL3. The aperture ring turns but no aperture blade movement, full open all the time. What's the best idea in this case? Cheers

Waiting for mine to arrive in a couple of days. I've been watching this camera for some years now.

I decided to see how much of my XH1 I was using in manual mode by switching every thing off in camera and I was suprised to see that I don't need most of the camera for my work. I only shoot in manual mode and if you use third party lenses like I do I only need the very basics from my camera. The battery lasts roughly eight hours with continous stablisation mode switched on although camera is programmed to switch off after 5mins none use. I can go out for a days shoot with only two batteries ( one as a back up just in case.) It does beg the question why do we need such cameras with all the internal hype, only wish someone would produce a quality camera body that is all manual and nothing else at an affordable price. If I find it that's my next camera. Your Black Russian lens is not the sharpest, try KMZ Industar M39 50 f3.5 50mm in silver, looks a bit like the Russian spaceship, very sharp and a beautiful 'Tessar' lens to use.

Does it work on an iPhone?

Nice video, thanks! Suggestion...if you use back button focussing on the “af on” button, as designed, then if you set the focus mode to AFC then for moving subjects we press AF on with our thumbs AND the shutter button with our index fingers at the same time! Try that with your front back button focussing...

The fisheye makes the horizon smile. Or, frown I suppose. The lens looks badass on that 50R! Good fun 👍

"...don't try to correct it" interesting comment about taking shots with a fisheye that got me thinking why not? Not sure what your reason for not correcting it is Greg, but I realised that to correct the fish eye effect means sitting in front of a screen with software and doing something entirely different to photography - so I agree!

I love a fisheye but I'd never do the whole shoot with one ... 🦘

I miss my old fish eye I had for my Nikon, fun to put on the camera and just play around and have fun 😁

That's an interesting stick. A monopod that doesn't fall when you put it aside. 😉 Could be useful as a lightstand indeed, if it's stable enough when extended, but I might be more inclined to trust lightstands that have wider legs!

Is it a weird little tripod or is it a light stand ? ... 🦘

I have a shorter version, the MT-71, pretty much the same design, it’s a great piece of kit. Bought it to use with a GoPro for vlogs, also use it on a desk with my phone and as a light stand for macro photography.

Great shots! I remember seeing the aurora when I was a kid or early teens. I had gotten myself up on the roof of our house in Sydney suburb, Fairfield (as you do), and could see a very faint green glow in the south. I remember my father and possibly my brother being up there, but don't know if one of the others saw it first, or whether I went onto the roof and called the others up. We had a skillion roof which made a great viewing platform, though we were only about 3 metres above ground.

I didn't know you had auroras down under. A real bonus.

Hello. Thank you for the review. It is interesting. I have a question. I am a very beginner. I juste bought a Sony nex F3. There is a 50mm lens with it. It is ok for me, I can play with it and use it for many kind a photography. But it is a little big to put the camera in my pocket. So I look for a small one to make my camera tiny, and keep my 50 mm in my backpack. Is 7Artisans 18mm a good choice in my case? Or can you advise me another one with the same price? Thank you! Raphaëlp

Nice video. Love the Aurora shots. XE4 i a great little camera. i will never sell mine.

Cracking images Greg, aurora shots are always best with some foreground interest and those old trains are great. Don't know if the Aurora Watch App covers the southern hemisphere, but it works a treat up here in the north. Now is a good time to be doing aurora photography because they come and go on an 11 year cycle and we're at peak activity this year.

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Fantastic shots Greg

Do you call them Southern lights in Australia? We had some pretty decent auroras here on Finland too just recently.

Great video - I seem to keep missing the Aurora Australia ..🦘

The laws for e-bikes in Australia are quite simple. To be ridden on public roads, e-bikes must: Have a motor that is 250 watts or less. If it has a throttle (that powers the bike without pedaling), have a motor that is 200 watts or less. Be speed limited to 25km/h

Hi Greg, great tip about looking behind you. Was taught that back in the early 80's, always look behind you and you'll see things from a different angle. Still do that today.

A three parter.... 1) A bit complex this one... the Fujifilm sensor is a X .80, so the 85mm would be about 68mm equiv. however, slide projector lenses don't gather light from the front, they gather it from the rear (to project light), so who knows what the 85mm or 100mm actually refers to... 2) My son in law does the CAD and printing of my adaptors. 3) I haven't noticed any, but then I haven't bothered trying much video with them.

Nice photos again! Is that a full frame sensor -- i e., are these 85mm equivalent as well? Do you make your own 3D adaptors, or does someone do then for you? Do you get colour aberrations if you film in colour?

When I got an X-T2 I found myself using front button focus. Works really well. I have an H1 on the way and I might just keep on with front button focus. I also use autofocus similarly and rarely see the need for AF or CAF. While it’s nice to have a snappy focusing lens like the XF35 f2 it’s great using fully manual lenses and many times I prefer that experience.

Many Fujis are becoming collectors items - no wonder Matt ‘Mr Leica’ posted last week that he couldn’t understand why Fuji owners were willing to pay good money when they could own a Leica - even my XT 1 has gone way up in value !!

Those are all really nice shots!

Lovely shots and great work mate.

Adding "cake" would elevate it to Perfection Status 😉