Macro Lens for Fuji (TTArtisan 40mm f/2.8) Review
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Budget macro lens for Fujifilm cameras is the new TTArtisan 40mm f/2.8. This is a brand new Fujifilm X mount lens, and will be available in September. Thanks to TTArtisan for giving us a sneak peek at this lens for our mini-review. Squarespace (10% discount): squarespace.com/pal2tech
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📔 Table of Contents
0:00 Intro
0:30 Welcome
0:56 About the TTArtisan 40mm f/2.8 MACRO Lens
1:34 Unboxing and Specs
3:21 Image Quality and Samples
4:41 Using a Macro Lens
5:12 Conclusion and Recommendation
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7:04 Outro
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The way you review this lens makes me realize that extension tubes are better in every way : less expensive, smaller size in your bag, optical quality preserved as well as AF and EXIF, better versatility if you own several lenses ...
Kepp on sharing your enthusiasm.
Another great video with very useful information. Your videos makes it easier to make choices before buying equipment. I feel sure you do honest reviews with your own honest opinion. Allthough you talk fast - you are easy to understand for a person like me - not having English as my first language. Continue making the good videos you make. As a Fujifilm user you and Omar are my two favorite channels to watch.
I love the fisheye from TTArtisan, maybe you can do a revision of that too. It is just for fun, but sometimes you have to have fun with photographing.... love the enthusiastic way you do this! I am a lecturer myself and I know, how to get people. It is hard work and you really know how to do this!
Awesome video as always! Third party lenses like this one are what help people like myself, who are on a budget...when it comes down to cameras of course! 😂
I really need to get on the Fuji train at this point. Thanks for sharing Chris!
I bought and now recommend the Venus Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2:1 macro APO for Fuji X mount. Sharp as heck, even wide open and in corners. Price is $400 and is recommended by some serious macro experts. I was able to buy at $350 on sale a few months ago. It does double duty for me to fill in the long end of my set of small primes: 9/2.8, 16/2.8, 35/2, and 65/2.8.
Keep up the great work! 👌
Great video big brother! I said it at the beginning of the year and I’ll say it again this is your 100K subs year!!!!!
Love a great honest review! Have you reviewed the Fuji 27mm 2.8 lens? Thanks!!!
Your on air clumsiness is epic. Ron Popeil would be proud. 👍
An alternative is a 1970s vintage Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 AI-S with a Nikon-to-Fuji adapter. It's one of the sharpest lenses Nikon ever made, even wide open. It only focuses to 2:1 however. Used prices vary quite a bit but are comparable or cheaper than the TT Artisans including the adapter.
Thanks for the review. How do you focus bracket with a fully manual lens? Would love to see your technique.
Thanks Chris another helpful video. Macro is something I have never really tried but at that price I may consider getting this lens as movement is still very restricted in Australia due to Covid. The lens would give me another photography outlet and at that price it is not too much to lose.
👍 Tony!!!!
Thanks for the review. Curious, how does it compare to using a Fuji Macro-Extension adaptor MCEX-11?
Once again, great video! On a completely unrelated topic: Are you planning on reviewing the Tamron 18-300mm Fuji X mount lens when it comes out? :)
There is a host of 3rd party glass coming! So much value (i hope).
When I do macro I use Fuji's 60mm f2.4. Since I like focusing at 1/3 life size it works very well for me.
I own the XF80mm it is an super lens, i really love it.
I bought mine second hand, almost 50% of the original price.
Thanks for the interesting video 👍👍👍
Keep up the great work.
I am surprised that a lens like that is not flat-field (similar to the old Nikon 55mm micro).
If you need to get more light between the lens and your subject, then remove the extending hood of the lens. It is just screwed on and can be removed.
I got the 50mm 1.2 from TT and they had the same lens cap, metal screw on. I ditched it for a pinch nikon 52mm cap…immediately 😂
Sweet vid- looks like a nice macro 👍🏼
i have the 50mm f1.2 and I LOVE IT!!!!
I have the Fujinon 80mm f2.8 - it is a superb lens!
how close can you get to say a leaf on a tree. What is the background like?
@@akfisher7138 I have tried an inch. Smooth bokeh.
Thanks for the great review. I have this lens but cannot tale any shot. What do yo think the problem is?
Thanks so much for all the work - how would this do for scanning film?
Thanks for great review! interesting lens,some sample photos looks quite good.can't wait to test it on some nice buggers:-)
fantastic video thank you. I learned a lot through your channel.
I use beside Fujifilm XF 80mm Macro lens the Zeiss Touit 50mm Macro for Fujifilm. The Zeiss lens is just amazing 🤩 maybe you find time to review
Really cool review. Sounds like the lens cap is metal? That is great! The one on the Fuji lens is plastic. Please try review the Fuji lens too. I think it is stellar but would love your view.
I had the 60mm lens. The way it focussed made me nervous so I sold it. Sometimes when I look at a photo that I took with it I shake my head because it is one of my favorites. My intent was to get the 80mm but felt it was over-kill for me. So I looked around and found the Laowa 65mm. I mostly hand hold, use focus peaking, lean forward and backward and pray to get focussed shots. But for me it is all about fun. I sometimes use flash and kind of like manual focus with no metadata. It keeps me thinking. But if Fuji ever updates the 60mm……💰💵💸
I recently picked up a used copy of the Fuji 60mm macro, which could be a good in-between option between this lens and the Fuji 80mm. The 60mm is an older lens with iffy auto-focus and "only" reaches 1:2 magnification, but it's pretty compact and I've been getting nice results with it so far. But yeah, for the "serious" macro photographer, it's hard to beat the 80mm if you're okay with the price.
I also recently got the XF60, I’m using it with Fuji’s 11mm extension tube and the results are great (for an amateur like me, haha).
@@Enrique-the-photographer Cool...I was thinking just the other day I could keep an extension tube in my pocket if I ever really need that 1:1 (or more?) magnification. 😊
Nice Video as always! I was thinking about macro lens options for the Fuji-X mount system to buy, when I heard about reverse lens adapters. I got myself one and put an old 35mm f 2.8 lens on it and enjoyed it very much. I think it's a great option if you're on an even smaller budget (cost me 10€ for the adapter and I had the lens lying around anyways) and if you're not sure if macro photography is your thing. Sure, it's a bit fiddley because you can't use the focus ring and have to focus by changing the distance of the camera to your subject, but if you don't mind that you can save a few bucks and still get some nice macro shots!
I also started with reverse adapter ring. Had issues with most lenses, so if you found a lens where it works (focuses in middle and in corners at same time, i.e. field curvature), good for you. I ended up spending $350 on sale for the Laowa 65mm 2:1 macro, and it is so much better. I recommend saving up for one.
@@swagonman True, it doesn't work with all lenses, I suppose it has something to do with how the lenses inside are arranged. And you also have a very shallow focus area depending on the aperture you use (you could use focus stacking to solve this). I still think it's a great starting point for macro photography because for 10 bucks you can get still some use out of old lenses and if you really wanted you could pair it with a cheap kit lens like the xc 15-45 and have a light travel kit including macro (although I would't really recommend that cause you cant change any of the lenses parameters while on the reverse adapter, so you'd have to set everything in the normal position on the camera, disconnect it while still running and mount it in reverse with the adapter) At the moment it's enough for me, maybe at some point i'll get a dedicated macro lens but money is a little too tight right now to justify that.
Do you wanna compare it with Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x macro (X mount)? I know they are not in the same price range. But I'm interested in those two lenses.
TTarisan is producing interesting law cost lenses, for dedicated photos like macro, landscape manual lenses are the solution. Unfortunately, we are missing the Exif details, there are a lot of situation where we can electronic assist mode, missing dataes remains frustrating, I guess.
I think we are missing in the X system a range wide aperture lenses, high optical quality, manual with data transmission .I'm thinking this a huge expectation of Fuji users, by the end this will make cheapest and lighter lenses too.
I watched christopher frosts review of this lens and he said it was fantastically razor sharp throughout the aperture range. Which leads me to conclude that TTartisan just has poor quality control in their manufacturing process. So you'll never know what you're going to get. Maybe a sharp copy or maybe not. So one will have to buy it at a retailer with a really good exchange policy.
Hello. Thank you for your review. I shoot Jewellery for a social media page as a side hussel. I’m not yet at the place where I can spend $1000 on this side of my work. Is this a good option considering basically all this content will be viewed on phones?
That lenscap is quite typical for TTArtisans. Their 50mm f/1.2 lens has the same lenscap.
Fortunately, you can buy no-name replacement lenscaps that clip on and they'll work too. :-D
For professional quality images, also consider the all-manual Laowa 65mm macro lens which is half the priceof the Fuji lens but delivers 2x magnification, and superbly sharp images.
TTartisan sells a hood/lens cap combo.
You should check out Laowa's various macro lenses. They're more expensive than this one, but a lot cheaper then the Fuji, and both have great image quality and higher magnification
Hi!! on the Fuji Firmware update site, there is no 56mm f1.2 listed at all .. do you know anything about this should I worry about updating the firmware on this lens when it's not even listed on Fuji's site?
Would this be any good at photographing 35mm film negatives that are back lit or would flare be an issue?
Hi ..I like u , you are honest with this review , sure a cheap macro lens of 150 euro wil not be better than a fuji of zeiss lens
I am searching a macro lens for food foto , I stopped with fotografie 40 year's ago , I need learn everything again
I would like you had shown some pairs of shots
made by the Fujinon and the Artisan lenses.
That is the way of making a comparison.
Less words and more shots.
Nice video
Wow
How well would this lens work for digitalizing slides and negatives with nikon es-2?
It would've been nice if you compared it to the macro tubes by fuji. since it would interest the same potential buyers (150$ budget)
Wow, at that price point it's in the ballpark of Fuji's extension tubes (but more than third party's).
Can't go wrong with the Laowa 65mm with 2x magnification
What you think about xf 18-55 + mcex 16 vs this lens? Thanks :)
Hi sir,ttartisans 40mm macro is suitable for fuji xt200,I used with xt200 and trying to take shot but shoot button not worked
Would rather buy the extender tubes you reviewed before 😅
Is the kit lens with a macro ring a better option because of af and maybe a better image quality?
For sure the 18-55mm is an option, and with the MCEX-16 it can achieve 0.97x magnification! However to achieve that the lens is only 4mm away from the subject. Zoomed in it achieves 0.47x at a much more reasonable 63mm to the front of the lens. My compromise (because the 80mm Fuji is too costly) is to use the 60mm with the MCEX-16. 0.76x magnification, 143mm from the subject (mustn't scare the spiders) and superb Fujifilm optics.
2.8, that means in certain environment may need lights/flashes
Is it better than using MCEX-11?
Do you have to send the lens back? If not it’s sponsored!
I keep having shutter problems with the lens. Any fix?
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TTArtisan 40mm is good lens for me. Because I just take photo for fun.
This is the video I didn’t know I needed… I love macro photography, but I shifted my canon macro with the rest of my canon kit when I moved over to fuji…
this could be a good option for me 🤔 I actually really like the fully analogue nature of it
what about 56mm f1.2 macro by fuji?
I think it’s a 60mm 2.4 macro, still a good lens and small
The Fuji 56/1.2 can’t focus close at all. Perhaps better with an extension tube?
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Wow that’s legit for $100-150
I'm concerned about two of your fake jellyfish, Chris. They aren't moving and may have kicked the bucket.
If someone has something like x-t4 gen and above camera, they should just get xf 60 or xf 80 to get that delicious auto focus stacking feature (of course coupled with tripod). Don't play with these toys and waste time.
I feel like this lens is not accurate with focus peeking, shows things in focus when they aren't at macro focus and when used as a normal focal length says everything is in focus even at f4
@5.56 "As always, be sure to see other video reviews of this lens in addition to mine before you ultimately make your buying decision." This comment is not only the best lens advice but for life in general - get a second opinion (or a third or a fourth etc..)