Laowa10mm f/2 Zero-D Hybrid Lens for Micro 4/3

I truely love the Venus Laowa 10mm f2.0 C&D lens for the micro four thirds Panasonic Lumix cameras. It is very small, compact, and very sharp lens. It is manual focus but that is ok because it is very wide.

Quasiment aucune distorsion périmétrique. Autofocus performant sur boîtier Lumix G7. Très compact.

Das MFT Objektiv ist einfach eine Wucht. Man muss sich vorher bewusst sein, das es keinen Autofocus hat, und man die Schärfe manuell einstellen muss. Die Bildqualität ist super, das manuelle einstellen der Schärfe einfach per Focuspeeking meiner Olympus und Panasonic Cameras. Schön ist das die Blendeneinstellung bei diesem Objektiv über die Kamera erfolgen kann und man so immer offenblendig scharfstellen kann und danach gleich auslösen ohne die Blende manuell einzustellen.Die Tiefenschärfe ist derart groß bei einem 10mm Objektiv das man bis auf Nahaufnahmen die Schärfe nach Blende voreinstellen kann und einfach nur noch losfotografieren kann.

I was skeptical of the "Zero-D" designation but not because I doubted an ultra-wide lens could be distortion-free. In the days before digital, all good wide angles were close to distortion-free because there wasn't any way to correct the distortion after the photo was taken.But these days, since Olympus and Panasonic cameras have the capabilty to automatically correct barrel distortion (make straight lines, straight) what's the big deal? A: Corner sharpness. Virtually all lenses are weakest in the corners, and wide angles tend to be especially poor in this regard. When an image has barrel distortion, the corners have to be digitally stretched to render straight lines, straight. This "pixel relocation" is bad news for sharpness, but aside from esoteric approaches like radial sharpening (extra sharpening applied to the corners) there isn't any alternative.However, if a lens can render straight lines properly without digital mischief, the corner pixels can stay where the lens put them. Maybe the Laowa 10mm would be super sharp even without Zero-D. But however they did it, this lens is exceptional for something this wide. Quite useable at f/2 and awesome by f/4. It's a little better than my Panasonic 15, 20 and 8-18, and they're all quite good.On top of this, the lens is fast, fairly priced, sized appropriately for micro 43, and it transfers data to the camera so you'll always know what lens and what f-stop was used. The only thing it doesn't do is auto focus but with focus peaking in cameras, this shouldn't be a big deal. Highly recommended.

Ich mag manchmal vordergrundbetonte Motive. Zum Beispiel eine prächtige Blume , welche mit der kurzen Brennweite noch eindrucksvoller daherkommt.Das klappt hiermit tadellos.Kann das Objektiv gerne empfehlen.