Venus Optics Laowa 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6
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All hail to Nasim Mansurov, who can make a shitty lens look really good with his photography skills!
On a serious note, really enjoyed your review and the images. OK, to be perfectly honest, I didn’t read the review and only looked at the images :D Judging from most of the images, the sharpness in the corners seems to be something I could live with. Fun!
Benny LOL, thank you for the kind words. I really enjoyed shooting with the Laowa 10-18mm, it is a pretty small and cool lens to use. You are right, the corners don’t seem so bad when you sharpen them in post and crop a little!
good Mt Evans shots; i hope to get there this weekend
Thank you Frank! Mt Evans is awesome. We didn’t see any baby goats that day unfortunately! It was also very very windy – at some point I almost fell due to an extreme gust that knocked my body!
“[…] the lens has a number of optical issues one should be aware of.”
Vintage Nasim, vintage PL. 🙄
Frank, couldn’t understand your comment. You mean vintage F mount lenses? :)
A minor thing: 0.15 cm=1.5 mm. That seems to be wrong for the minimum distance. Thank You.
Thank you Radu, I fixed the typo. The minimum focus distance is 150mm.
Excluse me for the second post, it was a failure on my net.
How about canon 11-24 nikon boy
How about canon 11-24 nikon boy
I had been wondering about getting this lens for my Z6 as it is light and compact to carry, the only possible issues being fitting ND filters and the lack of EXIF data. The example photos look excellent, so why are you so disparaging about the image quality? Cutting off a little vignetting if necessary, and with it any discoloration, is not a problem, after all.