Meike 35mm f1.7 Large Aperture Manual Focus APSC Lens Compatible with Fujifilm X Mount Mirrorless Camera X-T3 X-H1 X-Pro2 X-E3 X-T1 X-T2 X-T4 X-T5 X-T10 X-T20 X-T200 X-A2 X-E2 X-E1 X30 X70 X-A1

I wanted a prime lens with a big aperture to learn and grow using the XT20. I was very pleasantly surprised with this lens' quality, from build to photo quality, especially at the price range. The build feels solid, having a heavy metal feel to it instead of the cheap plastic feel. The picture quality was great, I am not a professional photographer and I consider my self amateur at best, but I was happy with the initial picture quality.If you are looking for a cheap prime lens with a big aperture and do not mind shooting manually, pick this one up and give it a try. If anything, it will teach you how to use a prime lens before you make the leap into more expensive prime lenses out there.

Perfect day to day companion! Easy focus, amazing bokeh, sharp, fun to play with, feels nice in hand. Very nice lens, very worth the money!!!!

This is an interesting lens. I was very leery of this lens for the price and being a company I was unfamiliar with. I upgraded one of my x-series camera bodies and donate my back-up ex-1 to a budding photographer. Unfortunately, I didn't have a spare lens to give. So, I purchased this one to setup a nice little starter kit.I tested this lens throughly before handing the camera over. It preformed impressively. There is definitely a bit of vignetting and softness at the edges when shot wide open. I deducted a point for its optical performance. For the right use, like creative portraiture, this vignetting and softness could actually be a bonus. The copies I used were surprisingly sharp in the center 70-80% of the frame wide open. Of course, it sharpens up much more edge to edge stopped down. Color and contrast weren't stellar, but definitely acceptable.One thing that is hard to characterize is the feel of a lens. I have shot with Sinar, Hasselblad, Nikon, Canon and Fuji over the years as a professional photographer. Some of the nicest technical lenses I have owned, lacked life and soul. What this lens lacks in edge sharpness and color rendering, it makes up for in the beautiful, organic feeling images it yields.A few important notes.1. The aperture ring is steeples. This makes it an interesting artistic choice when pairing the lens with more video capable x-series camera.2. This lens does not communicate in any fashion to an x-series camera body. Make sure to enable the shoot without a lens feature in your menu settings of your camera before mounting the lens.3. The manual focus is very well dampered. It feels like a good manual focus lens should. Not only does this make it a breeze to use for still photography, but it opens up possibilities when trying to pull accurate focus with video where focus by wire lenses sometimes fall short.4. The lens is built very solid. It has an all metal feel. I am not sure all the parts inside, but it feels very solid.I paid around $85 for this lens. I think anything near $100 is a good value. It will not replace Fuji's 35 1.4 AF option; which is a killer lens, but it was an interesting enough lens for the right assignment for me to purchase a copy for myself after letting my first copy go.

I had a lot of fun using this little lens. I wasn't expecting much but what a surprise that you can find quality in an inexpensive lens. Is it the best, no, but you don't go in expecting that. You are still capable of capturing wonderful images nonetheless. Overall, I'd say it worth the buy.

Cat picture: X-T20, 1/80 f1.7 ISO500Camera picture: X-A1, 1/90 f1.7 ISO3200I bought this for my X-T20 as my first prime lens. Quality is great but maybe not quite as sharp as the kit XF 18-55 lens - but this is only of you are looking at the pics zoomed in on a pc and being picky. With that said, my 5 stars is based on an amateurs perspective.The best was yet to come: after I cleaned up my old X-A1, I am in love with the A1/35mm f1.7 combo. It's such a compact, bare bones combo with the ability to shoot in super low light and delivers quality shots. If you can find a used X-A1 body for $100-200 and stick this lens on it, you won't regret it.

Very impressed with the build quality given the price, construction is all metal and image quality is very good and the lens is very sharp and bright. Bokeh is beautiful. Make sure your camera is set to shoot without a lens, as there is no electronic contact with the body and it will not fire otherwise. I will definitely be looking at some more Meike lenses.