Brightin Star 35mm F0.95 Manual Focus Prime Lens for Panasonic LUMIX,Olympus Micro 4/3 Mirrorless Cameras, APS-C MFT Large Aperture Fixed Lens, Fit for G7, GX85, GX9, G95, GH5, GH6, G100, G9

I mounted this lens to a Fuji xe2. Lens is very compact and heavy. Which is good. It’s mostly metal and seems to have great build quality. The focus throw is smooth and the few images I’ve taken so far have been sharp. The aperture stops don’t click or lock in place. I got this lens specifically because reviewers stated that the aperture ring had click increments. I don’t like how it’s all smooth. The aperture action feels the same as the focus. I’m keeping the lens as it was inexpensive and seems to take great photos and has a very nice build quality. I’ll probably use it for a portrait or nighttime lens. I wanted clock stops so I could throw it in my jacket pocket and quickly pull it out without worrying if aperture moved. Very nice lens otherwise

Totally Surprised! This manual focus lens will take you places you never imagined. Cost is incredibly inexpensive. A special quality when shot wide open. Not exactly soft, more like stunningly mellow. Well built. Rather small but contains everything you need.

I enjoy using budget manual lenses, so I took the chance to try out the Brightin Star 35mm F1.2 even though there were no reviews available, in hopes of finding a new gem. While the lens has its particular qualities, especially with the background blur and rich colors, the softness of the image quality keeps this from being my new favorite budget lens. The lens is weighty feeling for its size, signifying the all metal build. The focus and aperture rings are nicely damped, though a bit scratchy out of the box. The aperture ring is declicked, which is good for those shooting video. The primary reason you get a fast lens like this is to blur out the background (bokeh), and this lens certainly does a good job of this, with soft creamy bokeh in garden shots that bring out the main subject. The colors are rich and vibrant, and this is one of the primary strengths of this lens. I've included multiple images taken with the lens as samples. Unfortunately, the lens also exhibits softness in the image quality when you look more closely, especially with high contrast lines. There is some fringing that limits the resolving power and causes fine details to get lost. You can see this in some of the indoor close-up photos I've included. This can give subjects a "dreamy" feel, which some might appreciate. But a clinically sharp lens this is not. And that's one of the things with cheap manual lenses: they have personality, and part of the fun is learning the personality of the lens and seeing what kind of shots it works well, while understanding that it will have limitations that make it not work so well with other shots. So hopefully this review gives you a sense of what the "personality" of this lens is like, and help you in deciding whether to add it to your kit.

I’ve used this lens for around 2 weeks and it’s become a favorite of mine. Manual focusing is a tricky skill but it’s gotten easier over time. I have been using this alongside the Sigma 30mm 1.4 and the Brightin Star lens is sharper and faster (they do get similar results the more you stop them down). The only time I would opt for the Sigma instead is if I need autofocus (I do need to update the firmware as it’s a little unreliable on my R7 right now). I’ve used several manual lenses on my Canon R7 since there aren’t many options for lenses especially 3rd party so I definitely recommend this one as it has phenomenal optics and you won’t fire a faster lens than this. It’s tricky to nail focus at .95 but when you do, it’s very sharp. It came recommended to me by some other YouTubers who raved about it and they were t wrong. It’s perfect for street photography since it’s small. As opposed to most of my lenses, it adapts natively to my Canon since it comes in an RF mount. That really lessens the footprint. It is a little heavy since it’s made of all metal but not having an adapter more than balances things out. If you’ve never tried a manual lens before but are in the market for a fast, all around solid lens, I’d say get this one over spending over twice as much for the Canon 35mm 1.8. Autofocus is always great but if you don’t shoot moving subjects, I think you’ll find this lens and other manual focus lenses lead to more thoughtful photography.

Whatever we buy always comes down to value vs cost and need. This lens seems well manufactured and as long as your comfortable with a manual focus lens (and you're not a professional photographer), this lens will suffice. You're not going to get extreme sharpness with this lens as you would a lens that costs 4x as much or more. At .095, don't expect much. Stop down your aperture to 2.0 and the pictures get sharper throughout the image. For portraits, I think this is a great lens as it is NOT so sharp. We all aren't airbrushed and I think a little softness on our portraits isn't a bad thing. If you're a hobbyist or just a person with an interchangeable lens camera, this is a great lens for you. If you're a pro or a person who gets joy from magnifying your image 500x and finding CA or distortion, pass on this lens.

I have to admit, I was surprised at the quality and rendering of this lens. Solid build quality and very smooth movement in both aperture and focus rings. Just be aware that this lens can be difficult to focus due to the extremely large aperture, but it will reward you with some astonishing results. The key is to take your time. I am using this lens on a Sony A6600. Due to my trust issues, I don’t use any of the focus peaking features, but instead assigned a button to punch in view. Sure, it’s slower - but I’m a believer in slow is fast, and fast is slow philosophy ;) Excellent, specially for the price!

I've tried pretty much all the ultra-fast 35mm lenses on my Fuji system. Most of them have been quite good, especially when stopped down to f/2.8 or f/4, but my copy of Brightin Star 50mm/0.95 is a cut above the rest. Even wide open, performance is surprising, showing good center sharpness. There's a slight contrast reduction and a bit of haloing at f/0.95, always to be expected with an ultra-fast lens, but it is still quite useable, and actually offers a very pleasing, vintage look to photos. By f/2, it's very sharp in the center, with sharpness falling off towards the edges of the frame. Out of focus areas are nicely rendered with smooth transitions, and the bokeh is lovely. Solid 5 stars for both performance and value. If I could, I'd give it a sixth star because it has a click-stop aperture ring, which I very much appreciate.

Lens built very well (one star for build quality), but optical performance is extremely bad. Lens produces very soft images with really heavy CA. Lens is practically useless. Not recommending.