Usage Notes and Sample Footage: 7 Artisans 35mm f/0.95

This is my 4th (and probably final) video review about my 7Artisans 35mm f/0.95 lens. The first few minutes are general notes about the lens, the rest of the video is sample footage of me walking around, making note of camera settings and light conditions for later use. (This works better for me than writing it down.)

Overall: This is not a bad lens, but it is a one-trick-pony lens.
It is good for shooting central objects that are close by, maybe 1 metre away or so.

It is not good for edge sharpness or shooting distant objects. The Nikon Z5 and Z6 have focus peaking that generally works very well, but for distant objects, it's difficult to get enough sharpness or contrast to trigger the peaking into showing itself, if you set your peaking to a lower sensitivity level. At the highest sensitivity level, the peaking goes too far and shows soft edges as being in focus.
There is a strong green/magenta cast to high contrast out of focus areas, and it seems stronger when those areas are far away. This might sound like a long list of cons, but it's a $200 USD lens, that's about $250 CAD, for something that goes to 0.95. I wasn't expecting it to be a noct competitor. The 35mm is small and light, the noct is big and heavy. If you are a fan of lens flare, this lens has quite a bit, and it's very different looking from any of my other lenses.

Despite being a DX format lens, it almost covers a full frame sensor, so it's great for square format shooting or full frame video, but for best image quality, shooting in crop mode makes a big difference.
Some really weird stuff starts happening right outside of the edges of the DX image circle, with a 'ring of sharpness' running around the edges,

Shooting wide open with the camera set to mostly automatic, I need to set the exposure compensation between -2 ev or -3 ev to have the camera match the way my eye perceives the scene.

In low light situations, the camera is able to see far more colour than the human eye, so I always enjoy the surprize of shooting with high ISO bodies and ultra fast lenses and seeing the night in a whole new way.

When I go on camping or backpacking trips, my usual setup now includes my 24-200 /4-6.3 and my 35mm /0.95, one lens covers all my daytime shooting, the other covers nighttime, and neither is too large or too heavy.

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