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The Venus Laowa FF II 10mm f/2.8 AF is a wide-angle lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 2024. The focus is done by Stepper Motor, it does not have image stabilization. The average price, when it has been added to the JuzaPhoto database, is 800 €;
10 users have given it an average vote of 7.0 out of 10.
MOUNT
This lens is available with the following mounts:
Nikon Z: this lens is compatible with mirrorless fullframe and APS-C Nikon Z.
Sony E: this lens is compatible with mirrorless fullframe and APS-C Sony.
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Opinion:@Luca Maresca you only confirm what you have already heard both on this space and directly from other photographers. I was someone who was anxiously waiting to buy it, month after month, but then I started to pull the brakes and now I have decided not to buy it anymore. I'll probably head for the 9mm. which seems to be pretty good and also costs considerably less! To hell with the AF, with such a short focal length is practically useless ...
Opinion:I bought this lens driven by the large angle of view covered and its brightness. Solid and well-built optics, also nice as a finish but.... The merits end here. From the first shots I noticed that something was wrong with the files he churned out (shots taken with a Z8) they were as if mixed with poor contrast and accentuated colors. I did tests for several days, in the end I did an empirical test to get to the bottom of it. I took 2 lenses in my possession, the sigma art 12\\24 and the nikon 14\\30, and I compared them in the shots with the Laowa, I delimited an area and I took the same photo both with the sigma and with the nikon and with the laowa, leaving the aperture at f8 to have a better quality and varying only the shooting distance so that the areas taken were more or less overlapping. Well, laowa was the worst in terms of resolution and contrast, you just can't look at its results. Bad bad very bad, the resolution, compared to the nikon and the sigma is very poor, of course I also tried other apertures, opening the result got even worse, apart from an obvious vignetting. We are just not there, unfortunately useless optics, so much so that I returned it by motivating the reasons. I don't know, maybe the optics in my possession were faulty, maybe, I remember reading somewhere that many specimens came out defective, who knows, keep in mind that I waited since December to get it so it is not light-hearted that I decided to return it. Yet fairly well-known personalities in the photographic field when they reviewed it had spoken well of it, I am very disappointed, it can no longer be trusted
Cons:Cost, obscene lens hood that vignettes, distortions at the edges, not very sharp up close, bad autofocus.
Opinion:Given the excellent initial reviews found on the net....I thought....it was much better. It gives a feeling of solidity and of having been built with care, a smooth and comfortable focus ring given the generous dimensions of the same. The autofocus is really BAD, from a distance with a 10 mm it is not needed but it is with close-up subjects that you discover its limits and a thousand hesitations, in the end the only solution was to enlarge the subject in the monitor and focus manually. THE SHAMEFUL LENS HOOD....never removed, then I realize that it cartoons fearfully, I take it off and try to put it back on but it doesn't change anything, it exerted much more pressure and I try again a couple of times and in the end the vignette disappears, everything is fine? Not really....the next day here is the cartooning again... solved by removing a useless lens hood (which, however, serves a bit as a possible protection from involuntary impacts). It's still a fun optics Would I take it back? Probably NOT but I have it and I use it Hi Gerry (For the umpteenth time it is proven that all these reviews that are found on YouTube by people who should be professionals....leave the time they find)
Opinion:Unfortunately it disappointed me, being used to gm optics the difference in quality in the image rendering is remarkable especially with a7r4 (therefore with a demanding sensor). Autofocus a bit hesitant (I think fixable with a firmware), solid construction, otherwise no good. Decent sharpness in the center that degrades noticeably going to the sides, distortion is also present. rated 5
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