The Mitakon Zhongyi Creator 35mm f/2 Lens is a classic wide-angle prime characterized by its bright f/2 maximum aperture, manual focus operation, and all-metal lens barrel construction. Designed for full-frame and APS-C-format Canon EF mount cameras, this lens features a seven elements in five groups construction that helps to minimize distortions and maintain sharpness throughout the aperture range. The f/2 maximum aperture also pairs with the rounded nine-blade diaphragm to produce smooth bokeh when using shallow depth of field techniques.
- Canon EF Mount/Full-Frame Format
- Aperture Range: f/2 to f/22
- Manual Focus Design
- Depth of Field and Distance Scales
Mitakon Zhongyi Creator 35mm f/2 Overview
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Mitakon Zhongyi Creator 35mm f/2 Reviews
A decent enough lense but showing weakness that isn't woprth the low cost and should be avoided.
We purchased a large quantity of these lenses for our student cameras. they are used for technical teaching for our introductory film course. After less than two years of use we now have three of the lenses with bad apertures. Wasn't sure what the issue was (misshapen aperture opening, loose aperture blades...Today while inspecting one of the lenses I saw small brass pins popping out of the ends of the blades when the aperture was being opened fully. Seems to be a combination of overly flexible (coulld they be plastic?) aperture blades and poorly? installed pins. Couldn't figure out what was causing the problem with misshappen apertures...now we have a pretty good idea. We have a lot of other lenses and no such issue on any of them. Will be checking other Mitakon lenses for same issue.
Worst lens.....
I purchased this lens because of the positive reviews and it was the cheapest 35mm for Canon EF mount. The first copy from B&H was defective big time. Although there was a Quality Assurance certificate included in the package the aperture blades were assembled the other way around. So the largest aperture opening is f/22 and vise versa. I had to exchange this for another copy and in which anything above F/8 becomes quite noisey and smudgy on the viewfinder that focus becomes impossible. Further the camera looses contact beyond this point. Meaning no focus confirmation beyond f/8. There is no quality control for this lens whatsoever. Period. I had returned both back to B&H and ordered a Rockinon 35mm f/1.4. It could be a misalignment, poor quality control and all that but I don't recommend this product to anyone.
