Meike 50mm F1.7 Full Frame Manual Focus Prime Lens Compatible with Z Mount Cameras Z5 Z6 Z7 Z30 Z50

It's surprisingly good for $100! I got this for my Nikon Z 5. I like it. For better or worse, it's manual focus and manual aperture. Some may not like that it's not auto but I'm enjoying the practice of manually focusing and rotating for the aperture. Using focus peaking is really helpful. Manual aperture also means that the F-stop/aperture number is not stored in the photo's metadata. There is some dark vignetting but Lightroom can fix it. Side note, Lightroom does not have this lens' profile for auto correction. I just picked a few similarly priced lenses and compared results. Using this lens at f/1.7, it has a small depth of field and I like the amount of blurry background it makes. This also makes it hard to nail manual focus on the subject but it got to be fun eventually. Again, using focus peaking really helps. Also, I had to get better at leaning away and towards the subject to fine tune the focus on the desired spot. On the picture of the yellow smoke bomb, the focus is actually on the fingerprints of the forefinger and not as much on the smoke bomb/smoke. I didn't figure that out until I uploaded the pictures to the computer and blew them up. I think it still looks pretty cool. The picture of the dog is at f/1.7, the eyes are mostly in focus with the nose out of focus. I like that the dog was in the shade and I still was able to bring its features out using Lightroom. I took some pictures of the same subjects (blue cup, green can, background fence) at different depths just to see the focus difference and bokeh. Pretty fun. This lens is a lot better than I expected for $100. It's my starter "prime" lens, mostly just to see if I want to keep using this focal range of 50mm. So far I do and can't imagine what would make me upgrade to a more expensive lens.

Took this thing to get a ton of pictures of flowers and I am VERY impressed with what you can get for only $100. I haven’t had the best results for landscapes(might be due to my poor techniques) but for upclose stills, and using the higher apertures, you can get some outstanding results. Highly recommend!

I have purchased a few cheap manual lenses for my mirrorless cameras, and I generally know what to expect. This one fell short. The image quality is so-so, but more than that the ergonomics are just poor. The aperture ring is fiddly and without detents I found it unusable. Somehow the positioning of the aperture and control ring and their sizes just didn't work for me.

If you want to learn how to use a camera on manual this is a inexpensive lens that is good for low light.

I've had this lens for just over a year, I wasn't very impressed with it after my initial test of it and put it away and forgot all about it. During quarantine I was cleaning out my photography gear and decided to give it another shot. In just a few months of sporadic use the focus has completely gone making the lens unusable.

I had this lens for a very short time, I just couldn't get on with it. The hood is very loose, doesn't click into place, therefore it's easily knocked off. The image quality is so so. Stopped down to f/5.6 it's usable, more open not so much. I was actually planning to use it as a street lens given its compact size so it would have been mostly at f/8 but I still like to use a lens at all apertures and for this I wasn't satisfied. Also neither the aperture ring nor the manual focus was pleasant to use. Overall probably okay for the price, but not worth even this for me. I have the 50mm Nikon S lens and it's absolutely worth the additional money.

I run a Nikon Z6 II and this was my first fully manual lens I have ever purchased. I was kind of worried it wouldn't be what I wanted or work for me but I honestly never want to go back. The only issue I have found is you might have a very hard time getting a crisp focus- this is easy to fix if you enable focus peaking. I love the lens so much it has become my daily driver. I appreciate the weight and quality of the lens so much from this manufacturer I plan to buy several more lenses from them- one of which will be here later this month. I plan to keep using this one for my portrait and concert photography, while the one I just purchased (that one isn't a fully manual lens) will be for my cinematography. Attached are two photos I've taken with the lens. The cat is the first picture I took with it, and the second is a low light photo of when I took it to an anime convention to get photos of cosplayers (picture is of my lovely friend in his armor).

Ok. Let's be honest with ourselves. As a photographer, paying for a off brand $100 50 mm prime lens for a Z6 could be a worse experience. The lens does what it needs to do and I don't see what m9st of the fus is about. You want good lens pay the $1000+ fee for a Nikkor lens on the Nikon store. And remember as much as the equipment is important, the ability of the photographer trumps all.