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Laowa 7.5mm f/2 impressions and samples

Started Sep 22, 2016 | Photos thread
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Laowa 7.5mm f/2 impressions and samples
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So, I was able to get mu hands on new Laowa UWA prime for MFT. In fact, the first thing I did upon arriving to Photokina was to rush to Venus Optics booth.

What I saw there was clearly a lens that was still in development. Pre-production model is probably a bad description. It felt like a late prototype. Markings were missing, rings had some play to them, and the mount lacked limiters, so you had to be careful when mounting and unmounting the lens. So I'm actually really hesistant to make any judgment at this stage.

Anyway, the lens is tiny. It actually is slightly thinner than PanaLeica 15/1.7, and about the same length (would probably be shorter without lens hood). However, it had this dense feeling of metal and glass. The clickless aperture ring was right at the bayonet, and was pretty hard to use with E-M1. It was too thin and too close to the body. Since it lacked any markings, I won't be able to tell you what aperture the shots below were shot at. I always tried to start from wide open and stop down from there, so you can probably tell by looking at shutter speed.

I will split the images across 2 or three posts, don't want to spam too much.

NOTE ON POSTPROCESSING: All the shots that will come were processed with third party software without ANY noise reduction, sharpening, or other corrections. This is not the same as OFF in camera. This is truly no messing with the raw file approach.

As sexy on my GM5 as Panasonic Leica 15/1.7

Laowa wide open (I think)

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Sigma DP2 Merrill Olympus PEN E-PL1 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM5 Olympus E-M1 II OM-1 +15 more
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