The 7Artisans AF 35mm f/1.4 was already listed at several stores since a few weeks, as we reported here.
Not it is officially announced and available at Amazon and BHphoto.
There is already a first review about this lens here at Amazon.
The 7Artisans AF 35mm f/1.4 is now listed mpex for $169. There are also lots of product images there to check out here. This comes a few days after it was already listed in Europe.
I guess it is just a matter or days or even just hours until we will find it listed also at BHphoto here, Amazon here and Adorama here.
The upcoming 7Artisans AF 35mmF1.4 is listed at €189 at a store in Europe. You can see it above google translated.
The image itself shows the TTArtisan AF 35mmF1.8, which is already available and the store just uses as a placeholder.
As far as the description goes, it is clearly all about the 7Artisans AF 35mmF1.4.
We have shared pictures of the upcoming 7Artisans AF 35mmF1.4 mounted on Fujifilm cameras in this article here.
Product Descriptions and Specs
The first image of the upcoming 7Artisans AF 35mmF1.4 for Fujifilm X mount has been shared by asobinet.
I’ll stick with my epic Fujinon XF35mmF1.4 R, because of its “magic” rendering and because it has an aperture ring. But feel free to let me know your opinion in the comments.
The 7Artisans AF 27mm f/2.8 for Fujifilm X is now available at Amazon here.
Well, now we certainly can’t moan that there are not enough affordable Fujinon XF27mmF2.8 R WR alternatives on the market.
7Artisans introduced the following lenses for APS-C at the CP+.
7Artisans writes about the AF35mm F1.4:
This comes in addition to the already recently announced and soon available 7Artisans AF 27mm F2.8 for Fuji X.
The 7Artisans AF 27mm f/2.8 has already been available since a while for other mounts, but now 7Artisans has officially announced it also for X mount on their Weibo social media account here.
Down below you can see all the screenshots of the announcement.
I personally have no interest in this lens.
The AstrHori AF27mm f/2.8 has now been launched for Nikon Z mount. The Fujifilm X mount version will follow later on and be listed at the dedicated AstrHori Amazon page here.
For the specs comparison check out the BHphoto comparison tool here.
Also the 7Artisans AF 27mm f/2.8 can now be purchased for other mounts at Amazon here and BHphoto here.
I have expressed my negative opinion on certain releases coming from China here.
As far as 27mm goes, the best pick remains the Fujinon XF27mmF2.8 R WR. The only more affordable alternative I’d consider is the TTArtisan 27mmF2.8. But neither the AstrHori nor the 7Artisans 27mm are appealing to me.
A fellow FR-reader (thanks for sharing) stumbled on a review made half a year ago of the upcoming 7Artisans 27mm F2.8 which we reported about here.
The review, for the Sony E mount version, is in both languages, German and English (the red text is in English) and you can read it at nikolaus-burgard.
His summary:
7Artisans has also achieved a very good “autofocus debut” in the APS-C-Sensor camera-range with the AF 27mm f2.8.
I will briefly summarize the objective test results again:
Very good sharpness in the center of the image from open aperture, excellent from f4.
The edges are sharp from an open aperture of f2.8, but for perfectly sharp corners you have to stop down to f4. The slight midzone dip has also completely disappeared at f5.6.
The microcontrasts are always very good.
The vignette is clear at wide open aperture, but completely negligible from f5.6.
Unfortunately, the distortion is clearly barrel-shaped with a mustache, but hopefully there will be a correction profile from the manufacturer soon.
When it comes to color errors, lateral chromatic aberrations are not a problem at all,
the longitudinal chromatic aberrations can appear in the form of slight green bokeh fringing, but are never problematic.
The lens isn’t bad in backlight, but if you overdo it you’ll get flares and reflections here, too.
The autofocus was “unremarkably good” in my test. The eye autofocus for portraits was also very snappy and fast.Subjectively speaking, the technically clean, “modernly rendered” images without any annoyances such as outlining or bokeh bubbles really appeal to me; that’s what I expected from a modern “40mm” (fullframe-equivalent). Of course, with these technical parameters of a slight wide angle at “only” f2.8, you shouldn’t expect any shallow depth-of-field miracles.
I particularly like taking photos of people with the 7Artisans AF 27mm f2.8 – and they are easy to achieve because of the good eye autofocus.Given the price of €149 / $129, 7Artisans can be said to have made a really successful debut in the autofocus world of APS-C sensor cameras – because the performance speaks for itself and the price is sensationally cheap in relation to this.
It might not be a bad lens optically, but sadly the fact that it lacks of an aperture ring is a dealbreaker for me.
7Artisans is going to launch several AF lenses for APS-C cameras including for Fujifilm X mount as reported by the Chiense social media account CameraBeta here.
One of them, the 7Artisans AF 35mm f/1.4 has actually already been teased months ago here.
The other lenses, as far as I can remember, are new entries in terms of rumors.
Once again, while I find it great that more companies make X mount autofocus lenses, I wish they would come up with something more unique and original than lenses that have been proposed in all possible and minimal variations by many other brands already.
Also, as far as I can see, none of them has an aperture ring, so none of the lenses is of interest for me.
But that’s as usual just my opinion. Let me know in the comments what you think about.
