Meike 35mm f1.7 Large Aperture MF APS-C Lens for Fujifilm X Mount Cameras

When I bought my first Fuji X camera, this was the first lens I got for it after the included kit 16-50mm. It kinda reminds me of the Olympus M.Zuiko primes, only not quite as sharp and without autofocus. It's quite good so long as you're willing to manually focus, and I bought it in part to see how well I'd do so. I eventually got the Fuji XT35 f1.4, which has even more bokeh (and autofocus), and I like the Fuji lens better. But this one is smaller and quite good itself, for a fraction of the price. GREAT way to test the focal length and shallow depth of field.

Perfect day to day companion! Easy focus, amazing bokeh, sharp, fun to play with, feels nice in hand. Very nice lens, very worth the money!!!!

This is an interesting lens. I was very leery of this lens for the price and being a company I was unfamiliar with. I upgraded one of my x-series camera bodies and donate my back-up ex-1 to a budding photographer. Unfortunately, I didn't have a spare lens to give. So, I purchased this one to setup a nice little starter kit. I tested this lens throughly before handing the camera over. It preformed impressively. There is definitely a bit of vignetting and softness at the edges when shot wide open. I deducted a point for its optical performance. For the right use, like creative portraiture, this vignetting and softness could actually be a bonus. The copies I used were surprisingly sharp in the center 70-80% of the frame wide open. Of course, it sharpens up much more edge to edge stopped down. Color and contrast weren't stellar, but definitely acceptable. One thing that is hard to characterize is the feel of a lens. I have shot with Sinar, Hasselblad, Nikon, Canon and Fuji over the years as a professional photographer. Some of the nicest technical lenses I have owned, lacked life and soul. What this lens lacks in edge sharpness and color rendering, it makes up for in the beautiful, organic feeling images it yields. A few important notes. 1. The aperture ring is steeples. This makes it an interesting artistic choice when pairing the lens with more video capable x-series camera. 2. This lens does not communicate in any fashion to an x-series camera body. Make sure to enable the shoot without a lens feature in your menu settings of your camera before mounting the lens. 3. The manual focus is very well dampered. It feels like a good manual focus lens should. Not only does this make it a breeze to use for still photography, but it opens up possibilities when trying to pull accurate focus with video where focus by wire lenses sometimes fall short. 4. The lens is built very solid. It has an all metal feel. I am not sure all the parts inside, but it feels very solid. I paid around $85 for this lens. I think anything near $100 is a good value. It will not replace Fuji's 35 1.4 AF option; which is a killer lens, but it was an interesting enough lens for the right assignment for me to purchase a copy for myself after letting my first copy go.

My only issue is that my Fujifilm X-T10 doesn't read the aperture on the body, but the lens clearly works when I adjust the aperture ring. I get by using the tick mark on the lens to know my aperture, but this lens would be a 10/10 if I can actually find out what my aperture is if my camera can read it. Not sure if there's a setting on my camera I have to configure to allow it, or it just won't read considering this is a 3rd party lens. Regardless, you get some pretty good pictures without breaking the bank. I barely edited these photos on Lightroom, and very satisfied with how they came out.

I wanted a prime lens with a big aperture to learn and grow using the XT20. I was very pleasantly surprised with this lens' quality, from build to photo quality, especially at the price range. The build feels solid, having a heavy metal feel to it instead of the cheap plastic feel. The picture quality was great, I am not a professional photographer and I consider my self amateur at best, but I was happy with the initial picture quality. If you are looking for a cheap prime lens with a big aperture and do not mind shooting manually, pick this one up and give it a try. If anything, it will teach you how to use a prime lens before you make the leap into more expensive prime lenses out there.

I actually love this lens, but its more like a 4.85/5 stars... Its just not as sharp as the Fuji lenses, and there's no electronic contacts for AF or knowing your aperture in the metadata, but its all good. The lens itself has its own character, something the Fuji equivalent will never have. It has a somewhat blueish-darker tint to the photos that makes it unique. I find it hard to focus on this lens, its either the EVF isn't telling me the correct thing, or I just suck. Focus peaking doesn't help for me since the highlights hide what I actually need to see. You just can't hate on it too much for a lens thats less than $90... I imagine it would just be like using a vintage, mid-range lens. Not. Bad. At. All. You can pretty much disregard the low reviews, I don't think they know what they were doing. Most likely they just didn't tell their camera to shoot without a lens. I wouldn't buy this again because I imagine I would upgrade to the Fuji ones if I get the money, but its definitely a keeper. I also plan on getting the Meike 50mm 1.7 if it comes out. Great way to start a lens collection, but I would recommend getting your favorite focal length Fuji prime first.

Needed something to pair with my Fujifilm X-E1 with a 50mm equiv. focal length, fast aperture, and good build quality all while not breaking the bank. This lens fit the bill perfectly. If you're expecting the same IQ as the similar Fujian/Fotasy 35mm f1.7 CCTV lens, you're in for a big surprise. While the old CCTV lens was fun to shoot with, the soft, smudgy edges at times left something to be desired. This lens from Meike is a different beast altogether! Very robust build quality with practically all-metal construction all the way down to the lens cap! The focus throw is smooth and the clickless aperture makes it great for video. Corners are sharp and not at all like the CCTV version. Just under a stop of vignetting can be seen as well as some fairly heavy barrel distortion, both of which can be corrected. Don't forget, this is an all-manual lens which means it does not talk to the camera and you will need to manually enable the "shutter release without lens attached" function in your camera's menu before shooting. Pros: -all-metal construction -nice chrome lens mount -includes metal lens cap and proper rear plastic cap -fast aperture -very good image quality -renders colors quite well -comes with a nice protective pouch Cons: -manual focus only, no electronics -vignetting at large apertures -heavy barrel distortion (correctable) -the Meike brand as a whole can be hit-or-miss -fixed lens mount so if you also shoot Sony you'll need to buy the E-mount version I highly recommend this lens for its price-to-performance ratio. It offers great build quality and features at an attractive price. It's a great walk around lens that you can keep glued to your camera. It's essentially the body cap for my old trusty X-E1.

it’s manual focus so i need to learn how to adjust it so that my pics won’t be blurry but other than that, it’s a great lens for the price. here are some pics i took with this lens

Après avoir été photographe professionnel pendant plusieurs années, j'ai décidé de troquer tout mon matériel lourd et encombrant contre un petit Fujifilm xt2 et cet objectif 35mm (équivalent 50mm) Aucune électronique dans cet objectif, entièrement manuel, uniquement le plaisir de prendre son temps ... La qualité d'image est très bonne à partir de F2.8, excellente à F4 !!! Imbattable, à ce prix c'est largement supérieur à mes attentes J'aurai adoré que la bague d'ouverture soit crantée, mais bon, avec cette qualité d'image on peut bien faire cette petite concession !

Lovely compact and light weight lens. No issues on Fujifilm XH-1.

画像は明るく、撮影した画像も良かったのですが、絞りリングが不安定。光にもかなり影響を受けやすい感じがした。また、８〜22の間が狭すぎて絞り具合を目で見て調整するしかないが、あまり調整も効かない。

I would not make this your only lens. Its is FANTASTIC for portrait shots. Anywhere between F1.7-F4 is great. However above that you start gettin ga crazy vingette. Great lens for the price, but understand what the limitations are