The cheap Chinese 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1 lens for Leica M-mount triggered a lot of interest and I received several questions from readers. While I am trying to get a lens for review from the manufacturer, here is some additional information (the lens is currently in stock at Amazon and eBay):
The first prototype version of the lens had a 52mm filter thread:
The 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1 lens can be 6-bit coded according to this picture:
The same 7Artisans lenses are also branded as DJ-Optical and they have several other lenses available for different mirrorless mounts (including a 50mm f/1.0):
More pictures of the DJ-Optical 50mm f/1.1 lens for Leica M-mount:
DJ-Optical also has a 50mm f/0.95 lens listed on their website that appears to be also for Leica M-mount:
According to the lens diagram on the box, the 7artisans 50mm f/1.1 lens is an Ultron design with an enhanced rear group (with the entrance pupil on the right and the exit pupil on the left):
The lens has 12 aperture blades (one of the initial slides wrongly displayed 7 aperture blades):
Additional sample photos:
- Sample photos and some comparisons with the Leica 50mm Summilux lens
- Another sample photo
- Sample photos (some on Sony cameras) and some shot with Kodak Ektar film with a Leica M4-2 camera
- Some sample photos available on Flickr
- Additional sample photos:
Thanks for all the info Biroshak and Mistral75! For more information see the comments section of this post.
