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Please recommend me some Manual Focus EF lenses!


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I bought an EF-MFT speed-booster, now I need some lenses!

It's a VILTROX EF-M2II, and I tried my 50mm F1.8 and the AF was somewhere between functional and like it had a mind of its own.  The focus ring on the lens has such a short travel that it's impossible to use as a MF lens (which it wasn't designed for so I understand).

I'm looking for some interesting / fast / cheaper EF lenses that will be fine manually focusing.
I'm especially interested in lenses F1.4 or faster but are still budget lenses.

My thoughts immediately turn to the early days of cheap Chinese glass, but I can't seem to find any as any search is overrun with Canon AF lenses, or with new MF lenses that are for EF-M mount but are incorrectly labelled as EF (even Meike has a lens labelled as EF that is clearly a mirrorless lens!), and while EF was the only mount people never bothered to include that information and so things don't appear in searches.  Laowa doesn't even let you browse their products by mount!

Our new robot overlords suggested some options:

  • The Samyang/Rokinon series: 35mm 50mm 85mm F1.4
  • Zhongyi Mitakon Speedmaster 50mm f/0.95 (nice but it's over AUD1000!)
  • Zeiss ZE series: 35mm f/2, 50mm 85mm f/1.4
  • MEIKE 50mm F1.2

Anything else I should be looking at?  I really thought there were more third-party options around than just those.

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