The budget anamorphic you've never heard of

TTArtisan has been making budget concious manual focus lenses for some time, but they have really gone above and beyond with this anamorphic! It is pretty wild the quality you can get for this price, but also you do get what you pay for...

00:00 do you get what you pay for with camera gear?
00:26 TTArtisan 25mm T2 1.33x anamorphic
00:53 What makes an anamorphic lens special?
02:17 Information on the TTArtisan 25mm T2 anamorphot
03:21 Image quality and flares
04:00 Distortion and focus breathing
05:09 Downsides
05:40 Beyond the image
06:12 Why anamorphic lenses are so expensive
07:50 Thoughts for advanced users
10:08 A lack of transparency and other focal legnths?

[kiume_]

for me, this lens is like a dream come true for my kind of cinematic portraits I do. wish it were introduced a bit earlier before I moved away from Japan to be able to grab one. thanks for the really well put together review, subscribed, and looking forward to your next videos.

[drfardook]

I ended up picking this up from Amazon Japan (think there's a few more left). Your review is pretty much spot on to my (brief) experience with the lens so far. I'm a still photographer (yes, we like anamorphic lenses too) so things like the very noticeable focus breathing don't affect me.

I had rented the Sirui 50mm about two years ago. So not quite an apples to apples comparison as the focal lengths are quite different. The sharpness of the lens is noticeably less than the Sirui but that's to be expected (you want needle sharp, you pay for the privilege). Where I did see a really strong difference is in the depth of field, the TTArtisan seems to have a much shallower depth of field than the Sirui. The Sirui was also a bit easier to focus than the TTArtisan using focus peaking and zoom. So more shots thrown away with the TTArtisan. I think I need to take it out with a tripod to really get a better idea of how it performs. Still, given the price point, its performing to expectations.

[cantal]

Hello. Its posible to fix this lenses on SONY RX0 II ?

[Bradum]

I really wish these companies would start making at least 1.5x lenses. At least that would get me from 3:2 to cinemascope.
1.3x lenses come with all the difficulties of working with anamorphic footage, yet have minimal anamorphic character. To me they feel more like a fashion accessory than anything (I'm so artsy! I'm shooting anamorphic!).

[Imhotep]

It looks like an SLR Magic Anamorphot 40 integrated, which would be fantastic with a Blazar or Aivascope in front of longer focal lengths. I hope that makes longer focal lengths in general but even more so for these new anamorphic series of lenses.

[alvarocean]

Very informative video, but where I can buy this lenses? Thanks!! :)

[wasinoorazam]

the bokeh has a strange cascade teardroppy shape, don’t you think?

[Bradum]

"Another unique anamorphic characteristic that's easily identifiable is focus breathing":
That's not a characteristic of anamorphic lenses, that's a characteristic of bad lenses. When it's there it's especially evident in anamorphic lenses since the squeeze factor actually changes. You don't see this is professional anamorphic lenses, and even some well made budget lenses like the Laowa Nanomorph.

If you look at the focus rack at 8:44, the change in squeeze is brutal.

[khaledf.abdullah]

I'd love to grab one of these, but I'm a bmpcc4k user :/

[fredr.]

Great review. I was sold until you mentioned that the bokeh does not produce any oval shape. 🤦‍♂