Best non technical review I saw about this lens ... It's usable, it's cheap, has caracter, it's manual, good for some old schools calm shooting in the streets, and some awesome portraits. As soon as the budget alows it it will be in my shelf.

Great review, I love how you just give your gut impression on specs while using the lens and then offer some captions with specifics. It gives you the both points of view in the review. This lens looks really fun to play with and use for the money.

Thank you for the informative review. I just wanted to let you know, that "the weird looking bokeh" at 12:05 is probably due to you using the First Curtain Electronic Shutter option in combination with fast shutter speed. Because the first curtain, in this case, is fully in focus and the second curtain is somewhat out of focus, one edge of the bokeh balls becomes obscured (the shutter speed needs to be sufficiently fast for this effect to appear). If you start shooting at something like 1/8000s shutter speed, most of the bokeh ball will disappear (I accidentally got this effect on my photos once). To make sure that we see the *optical* bokeh of this lens on the photos, the photographer needs to use fully mechanical or fully electronic shutter. I hope, this helps.

This is exactly the type of channel I’ve been looking for!!

Wonderful insightful review with great warm attitude, Matt. Congratulations! May your channel grow big! 👍

Thanks for your excellent review! It was worth your effort 👌

I bought the lens today off Amazon. enjoyed your review Im retired now but years ago the lenses I used were all manual, photography now is just a hobby for me but have worked as a pro for many years in the past. Im into mirrorless cameras now, I use sony cameras. I really want to try this lens for myself see what it can do. Ive subscribed now thanks for your help

Thx for that really good review. Glad I stomped onto that video 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Thanks for your insightful review, Matt. I'm eager to try this lens out. It's in the mail, on the way to me now! 😊

The in focus and out of focus line was a nice point, great review Matt!😁

Excellent video 😊!

Thanks for the thorough review.... Great insights for me

The landscape shots are really stinkin' pretty

This is an incredible incredible review! Great insights and unbiased, helpful opinions. Honestly the effort and production quality is on par with some huge photography channels out there. Keep up the good work, hope you take off soon!

This is awesome man!!

Man this is a great review! 👏 Also subscribed 👍

Good job , Matt

Thanks Matt, this was actually very helpful. I stayed to the end and it paid off! Your images of the Chinon camera and the lamp convinced me that this is the character of the lens and not that I have a duff copy. I was making moves to send mine back because that highlight flare was so pronounced on mine that I wondered if it might have slipped through QA somehow. (There are other factors - the focal length seems a few mm short, and the focus endstop is actually slightly beyond infinity) It's very interesting to compare it side by side with the revised Kamlan 50mm f1.1, which in its Mk2 iteration is way sharper, contrastier and flare-free wide open. The two lenses begin to equate at f1.4. The Kamlan mk1 was about half the size and weight of the Mk2, but soft at most apertures. I wonder if 7Artisans will have another go at this 50mm 0.95? The character and quality of the Leica Noctilux is still a way off, but Kamlans and 7Artisans of the world are edging closer with every iteration...

it's a lot like a vintage lens but without having to worry about fungus etc. I have the Meike version which as far as I can tell is the same optics. For the price it's hard to complain. The softness, lack of contrast and chromatic aberrations make it totally unsuitable for nearly all pro work, but for hobby shots it's fun and I like the character, particularly the swirliness. The only thing I dislike is the stepless aperture, not so much because it doesn't have defined stops, but because it's easy to accidentally change it. It may be better on the 7artisans, I don't know, but from my experience all budget lenses with a stepless ring seem to have the same issue.

It's nice that you got recognized and was sent a lens to review. You did a great job. I had to purchased it myself, and agree with all your points. Video is in my channel.

I have the lens but for Sony not had much chance to use it sadly but liked your video on it I must make an effort and use the lens maybe this weekend subed you thanks a lot great review

Thanks for this review! I may buy this lens. I'm halfway finished watching this video and curious about any sun flares happening. It's something that I was looking for and saw that the Argus Laowa 33 0.95 has but it has a bigger price. New sub here. Keep up the genuine good work

This is a very nice review. Good work bro ....❤

Very good review, thanks.

thought this was an asmr video.. Not disappointed tho

Nice one mate. Some nice pics too :)

bought a 62mm cinebloom filter for this in case you're still wondering what the thread size is... great review

I like the saxophone photo

Hi Matt, nice Video, can i ask you how is it work shooting video? i know it isnt a video lens but however. :) Best, Stefano

good job

what size lens hood?

I enjoyed this review. One thing that I feel you missed is talking about flaring and showing some examples. The only photo that I could see flaring on was the band photo.

Hi, matt. Thank you so much for this! Would you send some sample photos for us to post?

Hi I just accidentally dropped my 7artisans 50mm f0.95 lens (dropped the lens to the shopping mall ground/floor) and leaving one scratch mark & faded coating. And the lens glass still normal (didn't break) and the video & photo results also seems normal. But when I shook the lens body, I heard some shaking sound/noise, is it ok?

Compare with kamlan 50mm f1.1

Have you tested the video quality of it wide open?

Dude I just purchased xt4 and I am looking for a decent budget portrait lens ..and I think I found one ...

I just wish you'd give Fuji a chance.

heavy lens doesn't mean it will produce nice image. it's the quality of the glasses that produce the images and the plastic wraps around the glasses doesn't make any different in term of image quality. the lighter the gear is better when you are shooting all day

Kamlan 1.1 is so much better. Talk about dreamy creamy professional well controlled bokeh. Alas it's only for apsc no full format.

OMG! This lens SUUUUUUCK! There is no excuse, no justification and no eufemism for such a softness in the center of the frame! It is basically useless unless you want to achive killer-hangover of LSD-trip cinematic effect footage. They really need to make mark II just as better as Kamlan did with its 50mm f/1.1 lens. Second revision is great and this 7Artisans need to elevate it to at least 35mm f/0.95 level.