A macro photography beginner reviews the TTArtisan 40mm f/2.8 macro lens for Fujifilm, a $100 manual-focus option with 1:1 magnification. It's soft wide open but sharp at f/8-f/11, and works as a usable 60mm equivalent for daily shooting. Good entry point if you're curious about macro.
One of my favorite genres of photography that I don't do enough and I probably am not good at is macro photography. Recently on this channel I reviewed the Fujifilm 30 millimeter f 2.8 macro lens and I really love that lens for its versatility. It's lightweight, It's a new lens from Fuji which is always exciting and it's macro. It was my first macro lens and I still consider myself to be a macro beginner. As I dive further into macro photography really from getting inspired from people on sites like Flickr who are just taking incredible shots of insects and flowers. It's really, really cool and exciting. So I kind diving further in and I've been thinking what else is there out there? Of course Fuji makes a 60 millimeter macro. They make an 80 millimeter macro but those are quite expensive for how old they are and they certainly have insane results. But I'm not that good at macro yet. I want to practice more. So I picked up this lens. This is the ttartisan 40 millimeter f2.8 macro lens. It's a one to one lens with an extending barrel design that has a close focus distance of 0.17 meters. It's got eight elements and seven groups. It's a sharp lens when you stop it down, but it certainly is going to be softer, wider open as such for $100 manual focus lens. So for 100 bucks. Wanted to play with this, wanted to see what I can get from it. Another thing I was really interested in with this lens is its ability to be kind of a daily lens. 40 millimeters on APS C is going to be about a 60 millimeter equivalent on full frame. And it's kind of a weird focal length that I'm not super used to. So I kind of wanted to see what it would do for me in my daily use. And at F2.8 it's going to be fast enough for everyday use. And it's also going to be interesting to see how that works with macro photography. Obviously again I'm macro beginner. I don't really know too much, but when I stop down for macro around F8, sometimes F11, you can get some really great results. As we know some of these cheap lenses that are manual focus, especially for APS C, they're not going to be the sharpest wide open, but typically when you stop them down they're going to perform really well. And for a hundred bucks I was really curious about this lens and wanted to give it a shot. So here are some of the photos I've taken with this lens Enjoy.
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So those are some of the photos I've taken with this lens. I've really enjoyed my time with it. For 100 bucks I definitely recommend if you're just getting into macro photography or you just want to see what macro can do, or if you're just interested with this very unique barrel design and it has a screw on lens cap. If you're interested by that, I definitely recommend picking up this lens. I'll put a link down below for you to pick it up if you're interested. If you if you have any questions, let me know down in the comments. Don't forget to subscribe and we'll be coming out with a new video soon. Thanks for watching.
