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7artisans 18mm F6.3 Mark Ⅱ Ultra-Thin APS-C Prime Lens
FS
Reviewed in Canada on March 13, 2025
I use mine on my old Olympus E_PL3 that I dug up from my storage closet, so now I have a nice compact package and I can easily slip it into my pocket. Great on a micro 43 camera with its 36mm equivalent focal length and no big issues with corner sharpness. It's sharp enough, the colours look great too, with some "character". When I want near-perfect sharpness or need more light, I'll use my 20mm Lumix lens, but that one's more bulky, and doesn't instantly focus. You can just preset this little thing at infinite... and shoot. And, it's really a lot quicker, simpler and definitely more fun to use than a smartphone.
alex
Reviewed in Germany on February 4, 2025
if you are a photographer who wants to be light, fast, and not into so many different settings that you forget to photograph what is in front of your eyes, then this is the right one for you. I am into manual shooting and i come from film era. The retro quality and color outcome is also a plus. The image quality is far more than enough for me. I dont like glass like look of digital lenses, and this lens make me concentrate into the events right in front of my eyes, I live the scene, I live the moment, and I dont have to adjust the apeture, shutter etc every other minute and forget to take photos.
Sawyer
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2025
Piece of crap. Can not vlog for crap. Aperature is the smallest thing in the world... whatever that means
helo amzon i am grate artiste
Reviewed in Sweden on January 26, 2025
First impressions were with fondness over the weight and size of the lens, but then not so much when actually out and engaging in photography with it. On my APS-C Canon EOS M I rapidly found it essential to crop it to 1:1 in order to bypass the extreme vignetting that somehow also manages to alter the colors on one side of every result, also had to do raw image adjustments in post to correct things to taste.I've already had time to use it during a trip to another country, it was a comfortably pocketable solution for that but being a slow f6.3 stung since it's winter-time and I was far up north. Attached is one photo showing the vignetting and coloring situation, and one photo of a long-exposure. Both have had their geometry corrected in RawTherapee and vignetting reduced, so that you can see what it is capable of with a little work.Pros+ Small in size as well as price.+ Tasteful retro-lens effect, especially in video-mode.Cons- Cropping to 1:1 is required to bypass often overly strong vignetting that also affects the colors to one side.- Editing the raw image data to correct geometry and adjust color to something more proper was needed.I'm happy with it but will let mine go, going to use a 10mm instead with plans to get an m43 camera and the m43 version of the UFO II in for the ultimate compact combo. From what I have seen on other platforms their versions of the lens don't experience these extremes that detracted from daytime usage of it, and my EOS M is after all from 2012. Four stars out of five. 7Artisans made a very unique and enjoyable item with this one.
Erdoğan Gök
Reviewed in Turkey on August 26, 2024
Ürünü çok beğendim. Sony nex ve diğer aynasız cihazlarda kullanıyorum. Bilhassa sonsuz işaretinde mükemmel neticeler aldım. Tavsiye ederim. Sony aynasız cihazları kullananların vazgeçemiyeceği bir lens..
PhotoPoet
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2024
Like a lot of photographers, I love using the best glass I can afford on my two Fujifilm cameras. Over the years, that has required some financial investment and, though I went from Nikon DSLRs a few years back to Fuji, partially for the sake of the Fuji’s smaller size and lighter weight, I often enjoy seeing just how small and light I can make my camera/lens combo for casual photo walks around town. So, when I heard of this 7artisans 18mm f/6.3 pancake lens, and saw how affordable it was, it was a slam-dunk. I had to try it!The short version of my review: I’m having a ball with this thing! The size, light weight and affordability evoked the order. But using it for a while, now, has me loving it. Mounted to my smaller Fuji, an X-T30, it adds practically no weight and the whole package slides in and out of my vest or jacket pocket quickly and easily. Shooting with it draws minimal attention, as it certainly doesn’t look like a pro rig. Focusing manually is fast, and even faster if I just estimate the distance and use a zone focusing method. It’s pretty much back to point-and-shoot days!Is this as sharp as my Fuji lenses? Well, no. But the results I’m getting are so close that no one viewing my photos has seemed to notice. I am, of course, talking photos that I’m posting online, not blowing up as large prints. Minimum focus distance isn’t all that bad at 0.3M. And, hey… there’s no lens cap to fiddle with. Actually, I would like to have a rubber cap, or something, though, just to keep the little lens protected. It could even be as simple as the kind of rubber cap that is sometimes over each end of binoculars. No deal breaker, though.The 7artisans 18mm pancake lens is proving to be great fun to use and a real conversation starter with other photographers. This isn’t a lens for everyone, but it is a fun lens for some of us. I like to challenge myself to short photo walks for which I limit myself to one lens and, maybe, B&W, or square format, etc. This has been a great lens for that.For how fun this lens it and how well it performs for the very affordable price, I give it 5 stars.
Maurizio R.
Reviewed in Italy on November 12, 2024
La costruzione è accurata e la baionetta metallica si innesta bene. Sfortunatamente la mia fotocamera (Canon EOS M200) non lo riconosce e non scatta. Lo vede esattamente come un coperchio. Ho dovuto renderlo.
Jon Sullivan
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
For $60? Come on, this thing is awesome. Solid metal construction, zero complaints there. Focus ring throw is 1/4 turn of the whole lens, so it's easy to whip focus around if you need to, but realistically you'll be at the "∞" setting all the time. Being fixed at F6.3 means that, at the infinity setting, anything from about 2 ft away to infinity will be in focus. So you won't likely touch the focus ring much / ever.Essentially, this lens is a point-and-shoot dream. Never have to touch focus, not wasting battery on AF motors, no choices to make. Just turn on the camera and fire the shutter! Extremely easy. 18mm is a nice choice, too. Plenty of room to capture your scene.Before IQ, I can't stress enough how _small_ this lens is. It's a brilliant fit on my X-Pro3, with the front edge of the lens just a couple millimeters further out from the built-in grip! I have several XF lenses and nothing comes close to making the X-Pro3 feel like a true rangefinder than this one. It's actually even smaller (thinner) than my X100V. Neat! Carry this thing anywhere.Okay, image quality. This is not a clinical, sharp, corporate-headshots / product-images type lens. It's $60. Go get your $2k G-master for that. What this lens is, is a very filmic piece of glass. Does it have some vignetting on the edges? Yep. Is it slow? Yep — F6.3, especially indoors, means high ISO. Does is somehow blend with the X-Trans IV's high-ISO grain (and/or JPG grain settings) to give you brilliant film-y images with BEAUTIFUL film grain? Absolutely. No idea how it does this, but it just does. The photos I shoot through this lens (particularly with Classic Neg or Acros) look more filmic than pretty much any other lens I shoot.Would I try this lens on the X-Trans V 40MP sensors? Probably not. Would I try it on the older sensors? Absolutely. What this lens doesn't have in resolution resolving power it totally makes up for in character and filmy style. That pairs great with the 26MP X-Trans VI and I can only imagine even more-so on the older sensors.For $60 and Amazon's return policy... give this thing a try. It's great. It'll take you to a simplistic place with your photography that's just "frame and shoot".
HenriD
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2023
The lens itself looks nice but feels a bit cheap. Now for the price, one can't really complain much. The images however do come out more on the softer side. Since the lens does not have a focus ring, everything that is at least 0.35m away should be in focus, however it's hard to tell because when I look into the viewfinder it looks like the lens is a bit dirty or something.
Boss
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2023
It’s a good lens, I mainly go interested on this to have a small ufo lens on my “point and shoot” set up with my canon Eos M2, but it has very strong vignette which you can’t fully fix on LR, but it does amazing for just point and shooting and has a very filmic like style of photo.You can put it on infinite focus so you can just point and shoot as much as you want, but make sure you shoot in daylight because this lens is a F/6.3 meaning you need light too shoot.If you don’t care about the flaws and wants those flaws I think it’s worth it, but if you have an old 1 time use film camera take the lens and just make your own body cap lens :)
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