TTArtisans 50mm F1.4 in Leica Mount

[Ken Ford]

Mine is here. Decentering looks ok and calibration wasn’t difficult. Right now I’m driving myself crazy, someone somewhere in the last few days posted that you can steal the M mount off a Fotodiox M42 to M adapter to get milled 6 bit cavities but the adapter I bought doesn’t have a removable mount. I’d like to find that post and ask the guy for more info, but I can’t find it. I don’t think it was here, and I’ve tried DPP, Reddit and FB. Ring any bells for anyone?

 

[boojum]

I have only the LLL Elcan. I guess it is a good remake of the Elcan. And that it is also a good lens. It gets good reviews. And it shoots well but does not have the some special thing I like. Link to small album: LLL Elcan

I do find the romance and poetry - OK, maybe that is pushing it a bit - greater in the Thypoch lenses that I have used. My point is that China is making some really good lenses now at really good prices. For the price of a good eBay retro we can now get a new Chinese retro with better coatings, perhaps better image and a warranty. That's a powerful argument.

Thypoch Eureka: Thypoch Eureka

Thypoch Simera 50: Thypoch Simera

So for lens junkies, strike that, lens collectors this is good news. I have a couple of beautiful old lenses, really nice ones. But they are hard to come by. These Chinese retros are just a click away. That's kind of nice.

 

[Ken Ford]

After sober consideration following review of the test shots from yesterday, mine is going back - it just doesn’t wow me. Maybe sample variation?

If I decide I can’t live without a fast M mount 50 I’ll look at Voigtlander or Zeiss, no need to keep money tied up in a lens I don’t love. It’s not like it was a sub-$100 lens.