Reading up on a hair brained idea (buying a 30mm f1.4 IRIX Dragonfly I found cheap in EF mount and adapting it to M43 and L-Mount), I rediscovered a couple of bits I had forgotten about.
The TTArtisans 35 f1.4 (L-Mount), that I bought last year to add to my full frame kit was a quickly forgotten curiosity, mostly because I did not use the S5 much and when I did, I kept it simple with the 20-60 zoom.
Being a crop frame lens, we are dealing with an APS-C or Super 35, 50mm or a 70mm in MFT format (where it may be less “characterful”).
For a budding retro cinematographer or “old school” stills shooters it is probably a dream lens.
The brass tacks of it though is it is a very mixed, dare I say optically confronting bit of kit.
Bought with character in mind, it seems I succeeded.
For stills, it shoots square well, giving you all the height of the frame almost the perfect cut off point to avoid the corner vignetting.
Maybe a candidate for a faux anamorphic look, shot full frame with a 2:1 crop, a streak filter if I can step it down to the odd 39mm thread and then see what happens.
The focussing thing is problematic as 3ft to infinity is a thin hair of range, but maybe I have my itch for an anamorphic look answered?