Venus Optics Laowa 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 Review

Reader Comments

1. Benny
   June 27, 2019 at 6:14 pm

   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!

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   • Nasim Mansurov
     June 27, 2019 at 6:17 pm

     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!

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2. Frank Millard
   June 27, 2019 at 6:53 pm

   good Mt Evans shots; i hope to get there this weekend

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   • Nasim Mansurov
     June 27, 2019 at 7:45 pm

     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!

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3. Frank
   June 27, 2019 at 10:40 pm

   “[…] the lens has a number of optical issues one should be aware of.”

   Vintage Nasim, vintage PL. 🙄

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   • Nasim Mansurov
     June 27, 2019 at 11:04 pm

     Frank, couldn’t understand your comment. You mean vintage F mount lenses? :)

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4. Radu Dinu Cordeanu
   June 28, 2019 at 12:43 am

   A minor thing: 0.15 cm=1.5 mm. That seems to be wrong for the minimum distance. Thank You.

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   • Nasim Mansurov
     June 28, 2019 at 1:18 am

     Thank you Radu, I fixed the typo. The minimum focus distance is 150mm.

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5. Radu Dinu Cordeanu
   June 28, 2019 at 2:16 am

   Excluse me for the second post, it was a failure on my net.

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6. Roman
   June 28, 2019 at 7:26 am

   How about canon 11-24 nikon boy

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7. Roman
   June 28, 2019 at 7:28 am

   How about canon 11-24 nikon boy

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8. Mark B.
   September 12, 2019 at 6:21 am

   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.

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9. Mick Klass
   January 21, 2020 at 3:21 am

   Would this lens work on a Z50? I imagine the issues with the corners would be less.

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