Meike 35mm f/0.95 APS-C lens for Nikon Z-mount review by Bill Hall (see his previous reviews): In stock at Amazon Meike product listing Additional information Other Meike lenses for Nikon Z-mount I just got a Meike 35mm f/0.95 lens, and here’s what I think of it. This is a manual APS-C lens. For full-frame cameras, the 50mm focal length has long been considered to be the ìnormalî focal length. Lenses with a greater than 50mm length compress the apparent distances in an image compared to our eyes, while a smaller than 50mm will expand them. Thatís for full frame cameras, but this is an APS-C lens. APS-C lenses have an apparent ìmagnificationî factor of 1.5 for Nikon cameras. That means that the compression factor for a lens on APS-C acts like the compression for a lens that is 1.5X the focal length. The result is that a 35mm lens on APS-C is actually the ìnormalî focal length. A very fast lens might have a max aperture of f/1.2, and that was the maximum aperture that Nikon F-mount lenses could be designed to do. But this lens will open up to f/0.95 because itís designed for Z-mount. That’s 2/3 of a stop faster than f/1.2. That’s just about as fast as you can get for Z-mount. Meike, a Chinese lens manufacturer, makes low-cost, simple manual focus lenses at reasonable prices. This lens has 10 elements in 7 groups, apertures of f/0.95 – f/16, a minimum focus distance of .39m / 1.3...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Saturday, 14 January, 2023