Great review Richard! I love my TTArtisan 7.5mm and I use it regularly for architectural and landscape shots. It's super sharp and compact but suffers a little from vignetting which of course can be eliminated in post process.
Hi! Very nice that you reviewed this lens. I intent to buy it for my Olympus&Panasonic cameras as an upgrade to my Risepray(Pergear) 7.5mm f2.8 lens. I am planning to use it as an astrophotography lens as well as for shooting wideos of an ensamble in tight poorly lit interiors. I know that it has soft edges but so does my risepray and after stopping this TTArtisan down to f2.8 I guess it will be sharper. Also this is a stereographic fisheye and I found that despite curvature of such lenses people look better near the edges than with rectilinear ultra-wide lenses especially that on M43 you don't get that extreme angles of view. However, I also own a Sony APS-C camera. I would like to use this lens on it. I have two other manual APS-C lenses (35mm and 50mm) with m43 mount and with a cheap adapter I can use it easily on Sony. But my risepray lens cannot focus on infinity on Sony. I wonder whether I will have more luck with this TTArtisan? Do you happen to know if m43 mount version have somewhat different construction that prevents adapting in back to APS-C? It is for some reason sold as a different offer on m43 that for other mounts.
i'm confused which one better between 7art or tt art, you said on your comparison video, tt art is less sharpen, but it has high stop, then, 7art more sharp and more wide angle than tt art, also have a good flare, which one better if we look by advantages/dis? (i'm using for wedding and travel) imma low budget 😬
Isn't it always like that! I have a copy of the 7Artisans 7.5 on my desk now.. i will include that in my fisheye comparison review and see what is it's performance like
14:16 360° photographers like me. We swap lenses from a format to another up and down since we care a lot about using the maximum amount of a wide field of view projected into the lens. TTartisans 7.5 is a perfect lens to use on a FF to do a 4 shot 360 (without the attachment).
Hi Richard, excellent review as always, thank a lot. Would it be possible to include the Samyang 8mm f2.8 UMC Fisheye II in the comparison? I would be especially interested in a comparison at minimum focus distance to see the difference in magnification. Also, the astrophotography performance (mainly coma) would be great to see. Best regards, Ward
Hey Ward, thanks for the feedback! I will see if i can find a copy of the Samyang to include in the review! And will include MFD.. and hopefully some astro/coma test as well! Thanks!
I bought TTartisan 7.5 for my GH5 the same day it was released without seeing any tests or reviews :) thanks for giving me peace of mind with this video
Thank you, Richard ! I like your very detailed reviews. I have Samyang 7.5mm F/3.5 fisheye lens for m4/3 cameras which is wonderfull : very sharp wide open, nice sunstars, light (1957 grams), and offers a fully 180' angle of view on a m4/3 camera. From many points of view Samyang is better than TT Artisans, but TT Artisans has its own advantage : the ND 1000 filter which makes it unique in this moment compared to the other crop-fisheyes. There are clip filters which can be mounted on sensors (by example STC filters), so it can be used with any lenses. But I have no idea about the quality and those filters are expensive. So I am thinking to buy this TT Artisan fisheye lens as a second fisheye for my m4/3 camera.
Yes too bad I didn't manage to get hold of a Samyang otherwise would be good to comapre them all. ND filter is definitely one huge selling point of the TTartsian
Thank you! In doing the comparison of fish-eyes, I suggest checking if the TTArtisan really is a stop faster than the f/2.8 fish eyes. That would be a major advantage if it is, especially for astro work, such as auroras.
I thinking to buy a fisheye lens but TTartisan has 2 lenses: 11mm f/2.8 and 7.5mm f/2. I have an APC Camera but planning to jump to Full Frame in long term. Which one do you recommend?
Have some TT Artisan lens and build quality is nice, but not smart from them that it is EOS-M instead of popular (and convertable to any mount) EF. Bought for LMount but prefer to have it in EF... If someone from TT Artisan listen - make it EF mount. With EF people can connect it to MFT, Sony, Lmount and whatever mount adapters for EF, it's much more popular and universal. Missing EF is deal breaker.
While making it a EF mount would certainly allow more cameras to use it (may as well make it F mount), when you adapt it on a mirrorless camera, the total size/ depth of the lens would now be much much larger and a lot less attractive to mirrorless camera users , isn't it?
Hey Wong, can you please make a comparison between TTArtisan 7.5mm f/2 and 7Artisans 7.5mm f/2.8 mark II? There is no such comparison on the internet so you might be the first doing it. Anyway, great video.
Hello The North thanks for watching! My comparison review is almost done, and yes it'll include the TTArtisan 7.5 f/2, 7Artisans 7.5 mkII and also Pergear 7.5mm f/2.8. Hopefully i can publish it within a week or so :)
@@TheRealRichardWong Will do. Do you use a fish eye much. I find I only used mine occasionally but since I switched to mirror less I miss it. This is a bit like the Nikon f 8 -15 zoom fisheye. On FF at 7.5mm it gives a circular image similar to the 8mm and cropped to apsc it's zoomed in to 12mm for a rectangular image
