The simple truth is that TT artisan is a different company, but It has complecated relation with 7Artisans, one of the 7 co-founders of 7Artisans started a new company named TTartisan on 2019, and 7artisans was established on 2016, 3 years earlier than TTartisan.
But it is the true that these two are similar, they might be sharing the same technical team, but not on cooperation, 7Artisans is not willing to have public take these two as same company. At the time point when TTartisan just started up for few month, 7Artisans posted a notice in Chinese on it’s website, remind the buyers not to confuse by the the name of “XXartisan”, this company has nothing to do with 7artisans, and accused that “XXartisan ” sell lens under the name of 7artisans in China, sure we all knew that xxAtrisan is TTartisan.
7artisans’ officail notice to condemn the wrongdoing of TTartisan
And now it seems TTartisan is doing great in lens making, it has released 5 lenses in different types in 2020, see the post on DPreview, and it is quite amazing that quality of the lenes are quite great and to compete with Voigtlander and even Zeiss lenses.
“The TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4 is a very efficient lens and I like the price:performance ratio it provides. The fact that I am actually not babying it too much while in the streets is quite liberating too!” Quote from Vincent Bihler on 35mmc.com. see his review on this great lens.
Since TTartisan has already released several great lenses and I won’t be suprised if it is going to compete with 7artisans in international market, and it is always good things for more competetion in photography field since more competetion will enable the technology update.
See my article of ” Who is 7artisans?“