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Manual primes and telephotos, 99 € to 419 €

Where it turns up

Macro, prime, telephoto and wide-angle lenses, from 99 € to 419 €.

What manual focus removes, and what it buys

No autofocus motor, no electronic contacts on some models, and therefore no cost for either. What is left is glass and a focus ring, and on a wide aperture prime that is where most of the money should be anyway. The trade is felt on anything that moves.

The lightest published figure on one shelf

One of the primes here publishes 156 g — and on that same shelf another maker publishes 125 g, which is why a claim of being lightest has to be checked against the neighbours rather than asserted.

Who these suit

A photographer who focuses deliberately: still life, landscape, portraits with a cooperative subject. On a mirrorless body with focus magnification and peaking, manual focus is far easier than it was on a reflex — which is the reason this kind of lens exists again at all.

Every TTARTISAN unit reviewed here

  • Macro lenses

    TTARTISAN 100mm F2.8 Macro 2X for GFX, manual focus

    Fujifilm GFX mount · 100mm · F2.8 · 2:1, twice life size · a 9.8 inch focusing distance published · 12 aperture blades · manual focus · 6 high-refractive elements · all-metal body with four cold-shoe mounting points · no stabilisation named · no internal focus stated · no filter thread published · no weight published

    The only lens of the seven here that reaches twice life size, at 389 €, with twelve blades and four accessory mounting points on the barrel — and a distance published as a focusing distance rather than a working one.

    Best for: Studio work on a GFX body at magnifications no other lens here reaches, on a rail, with the light mounted to the lens itself.

    ≈ 389 €

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  • Wide-angle lenses

    TTARTISAN 10mm F2, 105 degrees, manual focus for M4/3

    10mm · the title names APS-C and the M4/3 mount together · F2.0 · 105 degree angle of view · near-zero distortion claimed · 8 aperture blades · minimum focus 0.25 m · manual focus · no filter provision published · no sealing claimed · no weight published

    A 105 degree ultra wide at F2 for 199 €, manual focus, publishing an angle of view, a close-focus distance and a blade count — and naming two different formats in one title.

    Best for: Night skies and interiors on a Micro Four Thirds body, where focusing by hand is no obstacle and 105 degrees is the point.

    ≈ 199 €

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  • Telephoto lenses

    TTARTISAN 500mm F/6.3 super telephoto prime for Canon EF, manual focus

    Fixed 500mm · F6.3, closing to F32 · manual focus, no stabilisation named · tripod ring fitted · no minimum focus published · 82mm filter thread · no sealing claimed · no weight published · two ED elements

    A fixed 500mm at F6.3 for 419 €, and the only lens on this shelf that publishes both a tripod ring and a filter thread — 82mm, named so that neutral density and polarising filters can be found for it.

    Best for: Wildlife, the moon or deep-sky work from a tripod, where a ring, a standard filter size and a single long focal length are worth more than autofocus.

    ≈ 419 €

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  • Prime lenses

    TTARTISAN AF 50mm F1.8 Neo E, 156 g, no focus ring

    Sony E mount · full frame · 50mm · F1.8 · STM drive with eye and subject autofocus · no focus ring fitted · minimum focus 0.48 m · 156 g · glass-fibre reinforced body · 45 degree angle of view · no blade count published · no filter thread published · no sealing claimed

    The cheapest lens of the eight here at 99 €, weighing 156 g, focusing by motor only — the fourth bullet states there is no focus ring at all, which is a design decision rather than an omission.

    Best for: A first prime on a full-frame E-mount body, for someone who wants the camera to do the focusing and the lens to weigh nothing.

    ≈ £89 / 99 €

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Each amount in a write-up is what the listing showed when that page was written. The figure next to the product is pulled in as you read, and it is the one that counts.