The Ultra Wide Angle Lens is one of the most important lenses that every photographer can have in his camera bag. There are many costly ultra wide angle lenses in the market, varying in price from hundreds to a few thousand dollars. However, these UWA lens are not perfect. They suffer from dramatic barrel distortion, poor peripheral sharpness or huge physical size. Venus therefore spent a lot of time to come up with a design which is truly perfect and overcome the frustration of photographers. That's where the LAOWA 12mm f/2.8 ZERO-D comes from. Ultra Wide Angle lenses in the market tend to suffer an optical distortion rate from 2% to 5%, which causes straight lines to bend. The LAOWA lens features a *close-to-zero distortion rate that you can barely notice with your eye. (* The aforementioned close-to-zero distortion rate is measured from shooting objects at infinity focus. The distortion rate may vary for shorter object distance. Only Optical Distortion (Barrel/ Pincushion/ Moustache) is covered here.) The LAOWA 12mm f/2.8 Lens covers an ultra-wide 122° angle of view for you to create an outstanding landscape or architecture shot that no others can compare to. Shooting interior shots will also become much easier. Your house will become spacious and impactful in your photo even if you are shooting a small area. Do not forget, this is also perhaps the world's widest rectilinear f/2.8 lens.
A**R
Works well
Okay I was waiting to do this till I had some real time with the lens, I was impressed with the build quality solid metal, and I am just back from a 3 week sabbatical on Bali were I was shooting a music video and some stills with this lens among other lenses, the lens can be very sharp with some practice and as you know it's fully manual so it will take some playing with to get the quality you're looking for.I am a Sony, and Canon shooter so I got the Canon mount so I can use it on both cameras, I just use an adapter for the Sony camera, it does cover a full frame sensor so it's a real 12mm, so wide and zero distortion. I am happy with this for stills, I am not sure I would use this for video without a focus puller..
K**P
This is an excellent lens
Product is excellent
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