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Laowa’s new 7.5mm T2.9 Zero-D is the world’s widest rectilinear Super 35mm cine lens and it’s only $699

Venus Optics has announced their new Laowa 7.5mm T2.9 Zero-D S35 Cine lens, offering a massive 123° field of view, this lens covers the Super 35mm (APS-C) sensor format and features Laowa’s Zero-Distortion image tech. Despite being super wide, the new lens has a 77mm filter attachment on the front. Best of all, it’s pretty cheap, too, as cine lenses go, with a price tag of only $699.

The lens comes in its own foam-padded and weather-sealed hard case, keeping your lens safe during travel and in bad weather conditions. It’s available in several mirrorless mount formats including Sony E, Canon RF, Nikon Z and Fuji X, measures only 80.7mm long and weighs a mere 610g.

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Venus Optics announce new Laowa Argus 45mm f/0.95 FF lens

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Venus Optics, the company behind Laowa lenses has just announced the release of their latest full frame lens in the Argus series. It’s a 45mm f/0.95 and according to the company, offers a field of view that is appealing and natural to human eyes. They go on to say that “With the super shallow depth of field at f/0.95, it easily creates a dreamy and romantic rendering.”

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Laowa’s new Argus 35mm f/0.95 is the widest aperture full-frame 35mm lens in the world

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Venus Optics has just announced the new Laowa Argus 35mm f/0.95 full-frame lens for Sony E, Nikon Z and Canon RF mounts. Laowa says that it’s the fastest full-frame 35mm lens in the world and the first offer an f0.95 aperture. It provides a 63.4° field of view with “extraordinary shallow depth of field and creamy bokeh”. For the video shooters, they say it provides a long throw on the focus wheel and the aperture can run either clicked or declicked with the flick of a switch.

Photographer Richard Wong has managed to get his hands on one for a bit of a play and has put a video together going over its features and showing off some sample photos shot with it using the Nikon Z6. For the filmmakers, though, it looks like it might have a little more focus breathing than some of you would like. There isn’t a massive amount of focus breathing, but it’s noticeable.

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Venus Optics announces Laowa 11mm f/4.5 in Canon RF and 65mm f/2.8 2x macro in Nikon Z mount 

Venus Optics keeps expanding its family of lenses. A week after launching the L-mount version of its four lenses, the company is adding Canon RF and Nikon Z option to two more. The  65mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO is now available for Nikon Z, whereas Canon R shooters will be able to get the 11mm f/4.5 FF RL lens.

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Venus Optics launches L-mount version of four of its popular lenses

Venus Optics has released quite a lot of interesting lenses over the past few years. And now, four of the most popular and most unusual ones are available in L-mount. Venus Optics has just launched the L-mount version of two wide-angle lenses and two macro lenses: 4mm f/2.8 Fisheye, 9mm f/2.8 Zero-D, 24mm f/14 2X Macro Probe, and 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro.

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First review of Laowa’s 15mm F/4.5 shift lens – It’s a marvel for $1,200

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When Laowa announced their upcoming 15mm F/4.5 shift lens, I was intrigued. I mean, there is no tilt in this lens, but for most of my architecture work, shift is enough. Especially for a 15mm lens that is marked with zero distortion. For $1,200 this lens coupled with the Canon R5 is a beast combo. Let’s have a look at this unique lens.

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The Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift is the widest shift lens available for full-frame cameras

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Venus Optics has announced their new Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift lens for Canon EF/RF, Nikon F/Z, Sony FE, Leica L and Pentax K. Covering a huge 65mm diameter image circle, Laowa says this is the world’s widest shift lens available for either full-frame or medium format.

Offering +/- 11mm of shift (or +/- 8mm on medium format cameras like the Fuji GFX series – although, you’ll need an adapter), the lens allows you to correct for the perspective issues inherent in shooting ultra-wide-angle lenses which gives the appearance of buildings “leaning” in the shot. It corrects to keep vertical lines vertical in-camera instead of having to try to fix it in post.

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Laowa brings three new 9mm, 12mm and 15mm cine lenses to the Canon RF mount

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Venus Optics has announced three new ultra-wide Laowa cine lenses for the Canon RF mount. Designed for use on the Canon EOS R5 & EOS R6, the RED Komodo and the new Canon C70 cinema camera, the three new RF mount cine lenses offer extremely wide-angle views (even for Super 35) with focal lengths of 9mm, 12mm and 15mm.

All three lenses are part of Laowa’s close-to-zero Distortion (Zero-D) lens lineup. Designed specifically for cinema, those lenses are the 9mm T2.9 Zero-D, the 12mm T2.9 Zero-D and the 15mm T2.1 Zero-D.

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Laowa’s super compact 14mm f/4 full-frame Zero-D lens uses small 52mm filters

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Venus Optics has announced a new compact full-frame rectilinear 14mm f/4 Zero-D lens for mirrorless camera systems. And it’s available for just about all FF mirrorless mounts, including Nikon Z, Canon RF, Sony FE, Leica L and even Leica M. Laowa says that despite its small stature, the ultra-wide manual focus Laowa 14mm f/4 FF RL Zero-D lens does not compromise on performance.

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