Mads, Laowa lenses lack gaskets. Wrap a strip of gaffer tape around the lens mount. I do this with my 15mm f2 Zero-D when at Jokulsarlon and in any moist climate. Long ago I permanently ruined the electronics in a camera body using a lens lacking a gasket while out in a light drizzle in the Chilean fjords. You still risk moisture infiltration of the unsealed Laowa lens, but you won't lose use of the camera for the rest of your trip. I store gaffer tape wrapped on a leg of each of my tripods. All the best and keep your wonderful videos flowing.
Wow! The ice cave was great, but wow, I've never seen the chunks on the ice beach backlit like that. They just glowed! I love winter photos and may never get to Iceland, so thanks for sharing such a wonderous place. Glad you had fun with your new lens!
Absolutly gorgeous photos and it looks like you had a ton of fun capturing them also, which is even better. Thank you for sharing. Glad I found your channel.
Nice video and incredible great pictures! I have the Sony 12-24mm f/4 and absolutely love it. The f/2.8 version must be even better, but it’s also quite large and more €€€. Previously, I used the old Sony 16-35mm f/2.8, but since buying the 12-24mm f/4, I prefer it. However, as I aim to travel with more compact gear, I’ve come to love my Sony PZ 16-35mm f/4 in conjunction with the Tamron 28-200mm. For landscapes at f/8 on my Sony A7R V, I don’t notice much difference compared to my more expensive Sony lenses. Yes, at 200% magnification in the corners, I can see some variations, but they’re hard to spot after sharpening. Sometimes, I do miss the wider field of view, and this 10mm lens could be the perfect solution. It seems very compact too. Autofocus is a welcome feature since I often use bracketing, and the ability to use filters is also a great advantage. That said, wow-you really took some risks! I wouldn’t dare to do what you did. A few years ago at Reynisfjara Beach, some friends of mine lost quite a lot of gear (three bodies and several lenses). I narrowly avoided a similar fate myself. I was standing a bit closer to the water but felt the urge to head to the restroom and moved away just in time. Saved by my prostate-hahaha! The next day, someone from our group lost his lens and camera body at Jökulsárlón. So, as I mentioned earlier, I definitely wouldn’t take the same risks. But buying the lens? Definitely yes!
Wicked, I was hoping to see you at some point take a dig at the piece of glass; I am glad you did. I love the shot, especially the one from Ice Beach with the golden glow hitting the ice.
An amazing lense in even more amazing hands! I have rarely seen to many good pictures in one 20 minute video. I look forward to see much more work with that lense!
Hello Mads. Congratulations on these spectacular photos of the ice beach. The photos really are incredible!!!! I would like to know how you do it so that the beach photos do not turn out blurry when you are shooting at speeds of almost 1 second. Thanks again for sharing these wonderful photos with us. A hug.😉🙌📷
Amazing images Mads - your compositions are key for this ultra wide FL. I've had this lens since release, using it mainly for architecture. You've inspired me to try it with landscapes, although we don't have epic landscape subjects around me here.
Great selection of images Mads, really loved the ones from the Ice Beach, some real jaw droppers amongst them for sure. The timing of your video is also perfect as I am attending Greg's Hamburg workshop in February and giving serious thought as to what gear to take. I have the Canon 14-35mm (bought that after you discussed it a while back🙂) and until I saw this week's video, I was considering the Canon 10-20mm as the option of going wider than 14mm is appealing to me, especially for internal compositions such as staircases. Like the fact you can use filters with it too as the 10-20mm doesn't offer that option at the moment apart from gel filters. Will definitely now give this serious consideration and will look into the reviews, given your initial findings on its performance.
Well Mads, I will never have enough spare cash to do a trip there..... but thank you for letting us live vicariously through you. Some of those shots were magnificiant. And they say there's no God. Things of such beauty do not come from an accident. Always appreciate your videos. Thx again.
Come on! Food is overrated, anyway, and so is a roof over your head. Seriously, though, Iceland is outrageously expensive, and, tbh, unjustifiably so. 11€ for a 33cl bland beer? On the other hand, the landscape is fantastic, the lighting conditions are amazing, and you get to see auroras quite often. It’s not even THAT cold, if you stick close to the coast, due to the Gulfstream lapping the island, unless it’s windy. If you venture in the interior, well, it’s another story…
Great video, with lots of really useful insights. I have been struggling to get usable images out of a 14 mm, and now I know the secret: play, play, play!
I've wanted this lens since it was announced, a buddy bought one but I spent my money on getting a Hasselblad film camera instead so could not afford the Laowa 10mm for my Sony gear. I dont shoot landscapes I'm mainly glamour/art-nude I wanted this lens to shoot with people! keeping the heads in the centre of frame but having the legs of the models wildly exaggerated and also to do some crazy artistic weird cramped space type of shots. Most of the reviews I see of it are either bloggers or landscape people. Those Ice cave images are amazing very very different to your standard landscape type images. Love them!
Some great photos, especially those of the ice beach, only wish I was 30 years younger as I can’t see me ever visiting such a wonderful and amazing place.
A long time ago I had a 15mm fisheye lens. It was just for fun. And fun it was. It was very sharp, but produced images none of my other lenses could come close to producing. I currently have a Sony 14mm which is an excellent lens. I can't imagine what a 10mm would be like to use.
Not much opportunity to photograph ice caves in the UK, so I'll find other uses for my widest 20mm lens. The Laowa products are very good - the manual 65mm macro is one of my most used. Thanks for taking us on another of your adventures. My flight booked to Iceland was cancelled and refunded sadly. 'Beaut -i- fulllll images, as you pronounce it, as always.
Stunning photos. It's so crazy how close you have be with this 10mm. I was in Estonia, Narva-Joesuu, to photograph the lighthouse there with this Laowa lens. Okay, I did use Zfc so it wasn't really 10mm but still amazing. I was too far away. I treated my lens as it were a zoom lens. Mistake was made. What a waste of opportunity. But, I learned my lesson and cropped the photo in cinemascope aspect ratio and got somewhat acceptable results. Great lens, just be careful with positioning.
I have the 8mm 3.5 Samyang Manuel focus lense I have found manuel focus not a problem with such a wide lens . I have been able to photograph scenes that would be impossible without such a wide lens
Wow. The suset lit ice and the one with a water ring around it are just epic. Well done! Do you have any more images from Kvernufoss? It's such a magical place, and I would love to see your take on it.
16mm and below is the best foreground capturing grand scenes lens for EPIC captures like caves, icebergs, tree roots and so on. I got my self 14mm f4 from Loawa and quite happy to have 14mm and be able to use crew on filters and lens that is nifty fity size. Loawa WE ❤U
Have you ever used a swing lens panoramic camera? Like a Noblex, a Seitz round shot, Panon or a Hotizont. They are film cameras in both 35mm and 120 sizes. Getting between 140 degrees to 360 degrees per shot.
Fantastic images! Looks like you were having so much fun on the ice beach. Please use this sometime for astro / northern lights as it would be interesting to see how the stars would turn out.
Beautiful images, of course! Any tips on how you get people-free images in the ice caves? Do you shout ‘polar bear’, carry garlic cloves or neglect personal hygiene…. ? Have a great Yuletide.
Consider the 7Artisans 9mm/5.6 lens as well. Smaller, lighter, wider, sharper, better sunstar. No front thread though, that's the only downside. Besides manual focus, of course. :)
To add, it is a no-electronics lens, doesn't have electronic contacts, so that there is no Exif data transfer to facilitate automatic lens profile corrections. But it is considerably cheaper, about half the price, which is very tempting 🙂
I'm actually interested in this lens for wide angle architectural photography (more so than landscape) but I could also see using it for landscape if it checks out (if it's good).
Excellent but I just invested in the z 14-24 but nice techniques. OK as a tropical Aussie going to places like this, do you wear calf-length waterproof boots or learn to jump quickly? Maybe next year's gift to myself. This has me thinking, thank you.
Impresionante!! Sos imbatible en este tipo de fotos! Felicitaciones. Pero a mí me gusta el efecto del fish eye, tengo el 8-15 de Canon en mí Sony A7IV. Saludos desde Argentina
when doing your videos i think it would be intresting to se the before editing and after editing versions, just to understand the difference. keep how you edit in you cources ofcource but just show the raw for reference. and keep up the good work. love your videos.
I think you'll be hard pressed to see any difference between f/8 and f/11, so I rarely overthink it. It generally made a much bigger impact to make a highpass filter in Photoshop :)
Hey Mads. Great video, as always. Thank you for posting it. I recently got that lens for my Nikon camera, and used for some cool shots in NY. It’s a lot of fun and the optical quality is actually quite nice. I was looking at your shop for the PS tutorials, but can’t find any mention about the 100USD discount you mentioned in the video. What am I doing wrong?
Do you use the whole tripod upside down or do you just insert the middle part the other way round? I have never seen this variant but it makes totally sence and you skip all the handling of the middle part
Adding any filter creates heavy vignetting, and Laowa has confirmed that that they do not have any profile correction for this lens. Do you have any suggestions ?
Does your lens not have the silly built in lens hood? I just got my version of this lens and it seems like the hood is built in, which prevents me from using most of my 77mm filters. Does it remove somehow?
The most important issue (talking about the lens which didn't seem to be mentioned much) is you have no idea how wide it is. I considered returning mine because it was so hairy to use. But after waiting two seasons!!! for Laowa Canada to ship, I couldn't really change my mind if I made a mistake. Wow I lost lot of shots waiting. BTW - DO not buy direct from Laowa Canada! I've had several months using it now and it's still bewildering. This is a special purpose lense. It is very hard to use. Period. And I've had a lot of wide angles over fifty years. It's pretty well a technical lens. No one can tell me that on a Sony rinky dink monitor and their self-admitted vague level viewfinder graphic (read your manual) you can get level shots. It's a real crap shoot, and it's critical you get it right in all three axis. The benefits are that (as much as I'm looking at them compared to other lenses that have tens of thousands of shots on them ) I haven't seen any sharpness issues, it's reasonably small (smaller than a Hass 40 Distagon anyway) has a 77 mm filter benefit, and a very nice focus action out of the box. Downside is the usual wonky erratic sun flare issues common to ultra-wides (again hard to see in the field in the ridiculous small finders) and the so called lens shade is a cheap plastic bracelet that I threw away as I figured it would cost 50 bucks to replace if I broke it or lost it. Use your index finger shade instead. Also rear caps seem to be proprietary so other brands are best just banging them on with your fist. Seems to be a common e mount problem. Summarizing, it's a mixed bag. Like a fisheye you buy and are so enamoured with for a while you just can't use it all the time. (My 10.5 Nikkor is probably worth 10 bucks now but it was fun for six months.) So try before you buy. If you think an iPhone 13mm coverage is wide, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Mads, Laowa lenses lack gaskets. Wrap a strip of gaffer tape around the lens mount. I do this with my 15mm f2 Zero-D when at Jokulsarlon and in any moist climate. Long ago I permanently ruined the electronics in a camera body using a lens lacking a gasket while out in a light drizzle in the Chilean fjords. You still risk moisture infiltration of the unsealed Laowa lens, but you won't lose use of the camera for the rest of your trip. I store gaffer tape wrapped on a leg of each of my tripods. All the best and keep your wonderful videos flowing.
Good to know! Thanks! :)
These are by far the most beautiful photos I have seen on your channel (but then again, I am a wide angle view junkie...)
Totally amazing! No one does it better! Thanks for taking me along!
Mads ,Soooo much fun revisiting that beach and thanks for capturing my SEG while photographing amongst the ice ! Now I have to get me a 10 mm 🤣
"Ohhk. Nope" at the 12:51 timestamp. Epic ninja move to save the camera Mads !!😅
Wow! The ice cave was great, but wow, I've never seen the chunks on the ice beach backlit like that. They just glowed! I love winter photos and may never get to Iceland, so thanks for sharing such a wonderous place. Glad you had fun with your new lens!
Absolutly gorgeous photos and it looks like you had a ton of fun capturing them also, which is even better. Thank you for sharing. Glad I found your channel.
These are some epic photos. Especially the ice beach. Phenomenal.
That’s some insane field of view! As always, loved your photos 😁 the ones around the ice caves were brilliant.
What outstanding locations. Your photographs from the Ice Beach are magnificent !!!! That is quite the unique lens.
Nice to see you having fun during a workshop. Self exploration seascape compositions.
What fun Mads! And what great photos! Thanks. 😀
Fantastic work, Mads... thanks for taking us on your photo journey!
That ice beach photo at 18:00 is amazing
Stunning work. Keep well & Stay safe 👍🇬🇧
Gorgeous photos Mads!! Particularly at the beach. Fantastic stuff!
Nice video and incredible great pictures! I have the Sony 12-24mm f/4 and absolutely love it. The f/2.8 version must be even better, but it’s also quite large and more €€€. Previously, I used the old Sony 16-35mm f/2.8, but since buying the 12-24mm f/4, I prefer it.
However, as I aim to travel with more compact gear, I’ve come to love my Sony PZ 16-35mm f/4 in conjunction with the Tamron 28-200mm. For landscapes at f/8 on my Sony A7R V, I don’t notice much difference compared to my more expensive Sony lenses. Yes, at 200% magnification in the corners, I can see some variations, but they’re hard to spot after sharpening.
Sometimes, I do miss the wider field of view, and this 10mm lens could be the perfect solution. It seems very compact too. Autofocus is a welcome feature since I often use bracketing, and the ability to use filters is also a great advantage.
That said, wow-you really took some risks! I wouldn’t dare to do what you did. A few years ago at Reynisfjara Beach, some friends of mine lost quite a lot of gear (three bodies and several lenses). I narrowly avoided a similar fate myself. I was standing a bit closer to the water but felt the urge to head to the restroom and moved away just in time. Saved by my prostate-hahaha!
The next day, someone from our group lost his lens and camera body at Jökulsárlón.
So, as I mentioned earlier, I definitely wouldn’t take the same risks. But buying the lens? Definitely yes!
Amazing and oh so beautiful photos 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻. Thank you for sharing and taking us to see this beautiful place! ❤
Wicked, I was hoping to see you at some point take a dig at the piece of glass; I am glad you did. I love the shot, especially the one from Ice Beach with the golden glow hitting the ice.
What a great series of shots Mads, wow! And, your enthusiasm is infectious. Thank you. Clearly I have to get out with my 10mm more often. Cheers
Waited to see this video for a long time, the 10mm of laowa for landscapes, thank you for sharing !
An amazing lense in even more amazing hands! I have rarely seen to many good pictures in one 20 minute video. I look forward to see much more work with that lense!
Hello Mads. Congratulations on these spectacular photos of the ice beach. The photos really are incredible!!!!
I would like to know how you do it so that the beach photos do not turn out blurry when you are shooting at speeds of almost 1 second.
Thanks again for sharing these wonderful photos with us.
A hug.😉🙌📷
Skills ;) - make sure to push the tripod into the sand and you'll likely be fine in at least 50% of the photos.
@@MadsPeterIversen Thanks for share these skills Mads.❤
Mads, you are not just a photographer, you are truly an artist! (and a great one)
Amazing images Mads - your compositions are key for this ultra wide FL. I've had this lens since release, using it mainly for architecture. You've inspired me to try it with landscapes, although we don't have epic landscape subjects around me here.
Yeah, I think my usage in Denmark will be more limited
Some amazing photos in this one! Especially those from the waterfall cave and the ice beach.
Great selection of images Mads, really loved the ones from the Ice Beach, some real jaw droppers amongst them for sure. The timing of your video is also perfect as I am attending Greg's Hamburg workshop in February and giving serious thought as to what gear to take. I have the Canon 14-35mm (bought that after you discussed it a while back🙂) and until I saw this week's video, I was considering the Canon 10-20mm as the option of going wider than 14mm is appealing to me, especially for internal compositions such as staircases. Like the fact you can use filters with it too as the 10-20mm doesn't offer that option at the moment apart from gel filters. Will definitely now give this serious consideration and will look into the reviews, given your initial findings on its performance.
Loved the ice cave images & how you made it look uncrowded. Well done.
I've been watching the Laowa 10mm f2.8 since it's release & you made my day with your video using the it & sharing your amazing images. Thanks!
Stunning photos, Mads! Just WOW.
Well Mads, I will never have enough spare cash to do a trip there..... but thank you for letting us live vicariously through you.
Some of those shots were magnificiant.
And they say there's no God. Things of such beauty do not come from an accident.
Always appreciate your videos. Thx again.
Come on! Food is overrated, anyway, and so is a roof over your head.
Seriously, though, Iceland is outrageously expensive, and, tbh, unjustifiably so.
11€ for a 33cl bland beer?
On the other hand, the landscape is fantastic, the lighting conditions are amazing, and you get to see auroras quite often. It’s not even THAT cold, if you stick close to the coast, due to the Gulfstream lapping the island, unless it’s windy. If you venture in the interior, well, it’s another story…
Amazing shots with a fun lens. Great content as always😊
Those pictures are INSANE !! Great advertisement for the lens !
Wow, wow, wow! Very fun, Mads👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼. Gorgeous images!
Stunning video and astonishing photos. I stand in awe
Stunning images Mads! I just returned from Iceland and now I wish I'd had a 10mm to use on Diamond Beach. Epic stuff!
You're always at the most beautifull places, what a life 🙏
Got my copy of the Laowa 10mm a couple of months ago. Loads of fun in the city.
Great video, with lots of really useful insights. I have been struggling to get usable images out of a 14 mm, and now I know the secret: play, play, play!
Brrrrrr! I got chilled just watching this! Really beautiful pictures of ice, though.
12:10 shot is insane. Epic shots as always Mads!
I've wanted this lens since it was announced, a buddy bought one but I spent my money on getting a Hasselblad film camera instead so could not afford the Laowa 10mm for my Sony gear.
I dont shoot landscapes I'm mainly glamour/art-nude I wanted this lens to shoot with people! keeping the heads in the centre of frame but having the legs of the models wildly exaggerated and also to do some crazy artistic weird cramped space type of shots. Most of the reviews I see of it are either bloggers or landscape people.
Those Ice cave images are amazing very very different to your standard landscape type images. Love them!
Oh no oh no Mads I have wanted this lens for Christmas too this might put me over the edge 😂
Do it ;)
Awesome stuff!
Wow, stunning shots..
I also bought this lens this year and I completely agree with you. I had sooo much fun to photograph and the results are really unique 😍
Some great photos, especially those of the ice beach, only wish I was 30 years younger as I can’t see me ever visiting such a wonderful and amazing place.
Mads those ice beach images were incredible!!! ❤❤❤
A long time ago I had a 15mm fisheye lens. It was just for fun. And fun it was. It was very sharp, but produced images none of my other lenses could come close to producing. I currently have a Sony 14mm which is an excellent lens. I can't imagine what a 10mm would be like to use.
Some truly epic images there. Beautiful. Would love to see how it performs on Milky Way landscapes.
Excellent, the Ice Beach photos!
Not much opportunity to photograph ice caves in the UK, so I'll find other uses for my widest 20mm lens. The Laowa products are very good - the manual 65mm macro is one of my most used. Thanks for taking us on another of your adventures. My flight booked to Iceland was cancelled and refunded sadly. 'Beaut -i- fulllll images, as you pronounce it, as always.
Fantastic Ice Beach shots! But, darn, I bought a 14-30 yesterday and already I’m feeling obsolete!
Stunning photos. It's so crazy how close you have be with this 10mm. I was in Estonia, Narva-Joesuu, to photograph the lighthouse there with this Laowa lens. Okay, I did use Zfc so it wasn't really 10mm but still amazing. I was too far away. I treated my lens as it were a zoom lens. Mistake was made. What a waste of opportunity. But, I learned my lesson and cropped the photo in cinemascope aspect ratio and got somewhat acceptable results. Great lens, just be careful with positioning.
That was awesome. And the photos well... amazing.
I totally agree. This is a fun lens with great specs and quality. I love it!
I have the 8mm 3.5 Samyang Manuel focus lense I have found manuel focus not a problem with such a wide lens . I have been able to photograph scenes that would be impossible without such a wide lens
Fantastic 👌
i bought the same lens a few months ago and love it 👌👍
Beautiful photos
Wow. The suset lit ice and the one with a water ring around it are just epic. Well done!
Do you have any more images from Kvernufoss? It's such a magical place, and I would love to see your take on it.
There are some in my homepage and I have a new post on Instagram with more photos from Kvernufoss :)
Just got a 12mm 2.8 from 7artisans, can confirm it's really fun to use. I've been doing reflections and abstractions in the glass downtown.
16mm and below is the best foreground capturing grand scenes lens for EPIC captures like caves, icebergs, tree roots and so on. I got my self 14mm f4 from Loawa and quite happy to have 14mm and be able to use crew on filters and lens that is nifty fity size. Loawa WE ❤U
Excellent photos!! 10mm is WIDE!
I know what i want for Christmas! 😅
Have you ever used a swing lens panoramic camera? Like a Noblex, a Seitz round shot, Panon or a Hotizont. They are film cameras in both 35mm and 120 sizes. Getting between 140 degrees to 360 degrees per shot.
Fantastic images! Looks like you were having so much fun on the ice beach. Please use this sometime for astro / northern lights as it would be interesting to see how the stars would turn out.
Beautiful images, of course!
Any tips on how you get people-free images in the ice caves? Do you shout ‘polar bear’, carry garlic cloves or neglect personal hygiene…. ?
Have a great Yuletide.
Beautiful photos, awesome tips! What shoes did you wear at ice beach? Some kind of fishing boots? Kind regards
Great photos!!
Consider the 7Artisans 9mm/5.6 lens as well. Smaller, lighter, wider, sharper, better sunstar. No front thread though, that's the only downside. Besides manual focus, of course. :)
To add, it is a no-electronics lens, doesn't have electronic contacts, so that there is no Exif data transfer to facilitate automatic lens profile corrections. But it is considerably cheaper, about half the price, which is very tempting 🙂
Amazing photos
The best, . . . from the best !
Thanks for this great video!!!
I'm actually interested in this lens for wide angle architectural photography (more so than landscape) but I could also see using it for landscape if it checks out (if it's good).
I was considering this lens but I got a good deal on the Fujifilm 8mm about 12mm full frame.
Excellent but I just invested in the z 14-24 but nice techniques. OK as a tropical Aussie going to places like this, do you wear calf-length waterproof boots or learn to jump quickly? Maybe next year's gift to myself. This has me thinking, thank you.
Impresionante!! Sos imbatible en este tipo de fotos! Felicitaciones. Pero a mí me gusta el efecto del fish eye, tengo el 8-15 de Canon en mí Sony A7IV. Saludos desde Argentina
Beautiful
How would this lens be for Astro?
From the tests I've seen not very good. To get proper corners you need to stop down to at least f/5.6.
Really some (n)ice images 😁
🥁😅
Did you film this with the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 ? The video colors and fps quality is so good
Mainly yes :)
Were you able to get a standard filter over the bulb lens?
when doing your videos i think it would be intresting to se the before editing and after editing versions, just to understand the difference. keep how you edit in you cources ofcource but just show the raw for reference. and keep up the good work. love your videos.
According to the test I've seen, peak sharpness for this lens is achieved at f/8. It's a very fun lens!
I think you'll be hard pressed to see any difference between f/8 and f/11, so I rarely overthink it. It generally made a much bigger impact to make a highpass filter in Photoshop :)
@ True. Great video and lesson by the way!
Mega images 👍👍👍👍👍
Hey Mads. Great video, as always. Thank you for posting it.
I recently got that lens for my Nikon camera, and used for some cool shots in NY. It’s a lot of fun and the optical quality is actually quite nice.
I was looking at your shop for the PS tutorials, but can’t find any mention about the 100USD discount you mentioned in the video. What am I doing wrong?
Hey! Thanks for the interest. It’s in the description of the video :)
I have this lens- it is INSANE! I use it for architecture and have to be careful to keep my feet out of the shot
so many things for the eyes on this beach, it must be chaotic to find something, you could shoot all day long with so many "icebergs"
You can definitely shoot there all day :) - espeically when the day is only 4 hours long 😅
What tripod is that? I dont think my Manfrotto does that 😮
Is it better than sony 12-24 f/4?
I have been lurking on that lens for a coupple of months, not sure if I wanted it or not. Now there is no way around. I must.........
Do you use the whole tripod upside down or do you just insert the middle part the other way round? I have never seen this variant but it makes totally sence and you skip all the handling of the middle part
Adding any filter creates heavy vignetting, and Laowa has confirmed that that they do not have any profile correction for this lens. Do you have any suggestions ?
I use the NiSi Jetmag pro and that did not add any vignetting.
Does your lens not have the silly built in lens hood? I just got my version of this lens and it seems like the hood is built in, which prevents me from using most of my 77mm filters. Does it remove somehow?
Mine removes just fine
That lens is impressively tack sharp.
The most important issue (talking about the lens which didn't seem to be mentioned much) is you have no idea how wide it is. I considered returning mine because it was so hairy to use. But after waiting two seasons!!! for Laowa Canada to ship, I couldn't really change my mind if I made a mistake. Wow I lost lot of shots waiting. BTW - DO not buy direct from Laowa Canada! I've had several months using it now and it's still bewildering.
This is a special purpose lense. It is very hard to use. Period. And I've had a lot of wide angles over fifty years. It's pretty well a technical lens. No one can tell me that on a Sony rinky dink monitor and their self-admitted vague level viewfinder graphic (read your manual) you can get level shots. It's a real crap shoot, and it's critical you get it right in all three axis.
The benefits are that (as much as I'm looking at them compared to other lenses that have tens of thousands of shots on them ) I haven't seen any sharpness issues, it's reasonably small (smaller than a Hass 40 Distagon anyway) has a 77 mm filter benefit, and a very nice focus action out of the box.
Downside is the usual wonky erratic sun flare issues common to ultra-wides (again hard to see in the field in the ridiculous small finders) and the so called lens shade is a cheap plastic bracelet that I threw away as I figured it would cost 50 bucks to replace if I broke it or lost it. Use your index finger shade instead.
Also rear caps seem to be proprietary so other brands are best just banging them on with your fist. Seems to be a common e mount problem.
Summarizing, it's a mixed bag. Like a fisheye you buy and are so enamoured with for a while you just can't use it all the time. (My 10.5 Nikkor is probably worth 10 bucks now but it was fun for six months.) So try before you buy. If you think an iPhone 13mm coverage is wide, you ain't seen nothing yet.
You pause the video to note the settings and they get hidden by the TH-cam play bar.
Noted ;)
in your last videos the white balance looks strange (in my eyes)
Also this? Last weeks video was filmed on my iPhone, this weeks video it’s only the ice cave sequence that was filmed on the iPhone.
@@MadsPeterIversen just the beginning- rest than was brilliant as usual :-)
@@stehlealexander Hmmm, that's odd, for the very beginning I used the a7R5 and that has never let me down.
@@MadsPeterIversen it is around s35 but could be my personal taste. never mind, probably it is ok ;-)
I returned it since it was no good for Astro for me =/
wow wow wow, don't know what to say.