With the 7Artisan lenses, they generally seem bigger than the TTArtisan lenses of comparable focal length, price, and speed, with the declicked aperture that I don’t love. I like my TTArtisan 23mm f/1.4 well enough, wouldn’t swap. But if someone prefers declicked aperture, seems fine for what it is.
For a third party 35mm equivalent look no further than the Viltrox 23mm f1.4. Brilliant lens and with AF too. OK it''s more expensive than this lens but it's too good to ignore
Great value for money and fairly fast but the size puts me off. There’s some pretty nifty 25mm manual alternatives from rival manufacturers. Not a great fan of this focal length either. Even sold my XF23 and haven’t missed it so far. Maybe this focal length within a Zoom lens would be more versatile for me.
It's my focal length, I like the TTartisan, but honestly? The Viltrox 23mm never comes off the front of my camera, now. I have a ridiculously huge lens collection and it's 99% one lens on the camera, 1% for all the rest. So, thanks for the review Damian but I think I will pass on this one. :-)
