7Artisans 14mm T2.9 Spectrum Full-Frame Cinema Lens Released

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by Jeff LochDecember 14^th, 2023

7Artisans has released a fourth lens in its Spectrum lineup of full-frame lenses: the 14mm T2.9. This ultra-wide-angle lens will be available in Sony E, Nikon Z, Leica L, and Canon RF-mount. It has industry-standard 0.8 MOD lens gears on the focus and iris rings, and it remains highly compact for a full-frame lens. So, let’s take a closer look at it!

Chinese lens manufacturer 7Artisans now has a good reputation for creating affordable manual lenses. Last year, the company started making cinema lenses by introducing the Vision series, which covers APS-C image sensors and has an impressive maximum aperture of T1.05. A couple of months later, 7Artisans introduced the Spectrum lineup, which covers full-frame image sensors but with only three lenses at launch: a 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm, all with a T2.0 maximum aperture. On the wide end of the spectrum, you can tell that this lens set was limited. This hole in the Spectrum lineup is now partially filled with the new 7Artisans 14mm T2.9.

7Artisans 14mm T2.9 Spectrum – features

The 7Artisans 14mm T2.9 Spectrum is a cinema lens made entirely of metal and weighs 660g/23.28oz. This is the lightest lens in the lens set; as a direct comparison, the 35mm weighs 674.5g/23.8oz, and the 85mm tips the scale at 832g/29.3oz.

The lens has industry-standard 0.8MOD gears on both the focus and iris rings, which means you can easily use focus motors or a follow focus. Furthermore, the position of the focus and iris rings is similar between all the lenses in the Spectrum set. The focus ring has a very long focus throw of 270°.

Like its predecessors, this 14mm will be available in various lens mounts, including Sony E, Nikon Z, Leica L, and Canon RF-mount. Please note that the lens mount is not user-interchangeable.

Lens design

The lens design of the 7Artisans 14mm T2.9 Spectrum consists of 13 elements in 9 groups, including two aspherical and three extra-low dispersion elements. As it is an ultra-wide-angle lens, expect some barrel image distortion, but as you can tell from the promo video, they look pretty well-contained.

The front filter size is 82mm, and the outside diameter is 90mm. The aperture diaphragm has ten blades, and the minimum focusing distance is 40cm/15.7in

Price and availability

The 7Artisans 14mm T2.9 Spectrum is available now for $459.

For more information, please visit 7Artisans’ website here.

What do you think about this ultra-wide-angle prime lens? Did you already shoot with 7Artisans’ lenses? Do you think 14mm is too wide on a full-frame image sensor? Don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments below!