Articles on 7Artisans

7Artisans is a Chinese manufacturer of photographic lens. Its lens design is inspired by classic Leica lenses, though some more recent 7Artisans crop-sensor lenses have a more modern design.

Founded by a great of camera gearheads, 7Artisans got its name from its 7 co-founders.

So far, all photographic lenses by 7Artisans are pure manual focus lenses without electronic contacts. Save a couple of fisheye lenses, all its lenses are also in the standard (35-50mm full-frame equivalent) and short telephoto (60-90mm full-frame equivalent) ranges.