The micro four thirds lens you have been waiting for - Laowa 10mm f/2 ZERO-D
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- Laowa 10mm f/2 ZERO-D Review - If you want a lens that is a bit wider, faster than your micro four thirds kit lens and still compact and affordable, this is what you have been waiting for!
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Is this Laowa 10mm f/2 Zero-D the micro four thirds lens you have been waiting for? Or is there any other micro four thirds you really want to see?
Have you done the 100-400? I'm probably going to buy it anyway when I see the price sharp but I'd be interested to see your thoughts. You're always quite thorough. :-)
That wobble go crazyy
Great review. Thankyou. I just recently discovered these Laowa lenses for MFT and am so glad to see they really renew the reason we were originally attracted to this system. Small, light, reasonably priced and very good optics.
yes that's one of Laowa's main design philosophy!
I wonder how the performance of this lens (vignetting, etc.) compares with the Laowa 9mm f2.8 (without electrical contacts) in mft mount?
Just got a copy of this lens and initial thoughts are very positive. Enjoyed your review and the subtitles made me laugh. :)
Mr Webname Have fun with your Laowa! :)
As always, a superb video / Regards Ulf
Thanks for that. Found out about it on Camera Conspiracies but figured a few second opinions would be worthwhile. I don't think the vignetting or flare will bother me. I want a bright wide lens for indoor use, mostly. I have the 7.5mm below and Leica 15mm above and may also get the Olympus 12mm f2 at some point for the AF, but this will be on its way in a couple of days once my CC rolls over as I already blew out my budget this month :-D Olympus only if it goes on a heavy special at some point. :-)
Great review! Great lense!
Thanks for watching
Very interesting lens. 46mm filter thread matches the Laowa 7.5mm, the Pana 20mm and the Pana 14mm, I already own. Since all my GH5 presets are set to 7.5mm it is very important that the camera get the focal length automatically because it would be a pain to change this all the time.
Sounds like this lens is perfect for you!
Perfect for a Pen-F walk-around outfit... 10mm, 14-42mm EZ, 60mm macro... no camera bag, just a few pockets.
Yes that's the beauty of m43 :)
@@TheRealRichardWong Or GX9, 14-140mm mark 2, 50mm x2 macro, and this :-D
Great review. Looks like the perfect vlog lens. Any ideas how it would perform on a Nikon Z mount with an adapter, and whether the aperture can be controlled without a smart connection. May be fun to test it on the Z50 or the new Z6ii 4k 60FPS with APSC crop
Hey Barry haven't try it on a z but seeing this is an electronically controlled lens, and not sure if there is any electronic m43 to z adaptor in the market, it probably isn't the best lens for such kind of cross mount usage
Hi Richard, great review, curious what is your favorite camera and lens for video, I finally subscribed to your channel, thought I was already subscribed. Thanks for sharing and Happy Holidays to you!
Thanks for the sub Tony! Have a great 2021!
ooh and just noticed you actually asked me a question sorry I missed it before. Fav camera and lens for video? oh it's hard to answer. Currently I'm using a Lumix S5 with 20-60 to shoot most of my youtube videos... and a Nikon Z6 with AFS 60mm f/2.8 Macro for B roll and product shots
how to compare to 9mm? 1mm difference..
I was really keen on a 7-Artisans lens for my MFT Lumix, but it does have the drawback of not having electronic connection. This lens does have the connection ?
Yes correct
Will you review the Voigtlander 29mm f/.8 when it's available?
If I can get my hands on one :)
Good review (as always) Richard. I wish this lens was a tad faster, say an F1.8. But considering it's tiny size, it's probably doing the best it can at this price point.
Thanks!! Yes 1.8 would be nice. But the actual difference isn't that big from a f2 lens.
The difference between f/1.8 and f/2 is negligible. Now if they could've pulled off f/1.4 maybe...
Forget autofocus, how about Lens stabilization. Is that to much to ask for?
I wish for manual only focus and f2 lens they had more suitable for manual focus without EVF (a.k.a. scale focusing) focusing scale. Not just infinity and next to it 1 meter. Good manual focus scale usually have 3 meters as well. It allows to focus manually without looking in EVF or at focus scale.
Thanks, Richard, for the review. Owning the Laowa 7.5mm for my Panasonic G9, I'm checking with you if the sharpness of the two lens is similar. Also, having been inquiring about the Olympus 12mm f2 as a potential buy and just discovering this 10mm, I would like your assessment of the 10mm, if it is a good substitute for low light street photography over the Oly 12mm. Both carry a small form factor, but the Oly is quite a bit more expensive. Thank you.
it's been a while since i last used the Laowa 7.5mm but I believe the 10mm should be quite similar in terms of sharpness. Can't really comment on the Olympus 12 f/2 as I have not got much experience with that lens sorry. but for street photography, I feel the Laowa should be more than good enough as long as you ok with manual focus.
@@TheRealRichardWong Thanks, Richard, for your response, it is appreciated.
Have you got any full size or large sized sample photos from the lens for public display? Good reviews by the way, always a good watch
Not for this reviiew sorry, but I'll try setup some for future reviews :) Thanks for watching Andrew!
@@TheRealRichardWong No worries. I bought one anyway 😁 Love it. Great little lens, plenty sharp for me, and the colours and contrast look just as nice as my Panasonic Leica 8-18 at 10mm. In real life photos anyway. Very happy with it.
And I must compliment you on your reviews too. Well worth a watch, very balanced, non biased, and will presented. Thanks for your efforts
Thank you. Glad you enjoy the lens!!
Dear Richard we (Nikon Z owner) need to know about the new VILTROX 85 F/1.8 AF for Z mount can you check it for all of us... thanks
I am testing it right now.. a review should come out in a few days time :)
10mm f2 + 14-140 F3.5 would be a good travel lens.
Great review! Can You compare field of view from this lens and from Lumix 12-60 at 12mm? I'm curious if it is a big difference, or not.
I would love to do that..a actually that's a good idea and I should have included that in my review. Unfortunately I have already sent the sample back to laowa
@@TheRealRichardWong
Ahh, too bad! Thanks for review anyway, your videos are very professional :)
@@przyrodnikpoznanski6826 you can just look in net different between 24 and 20mm in any lenses
That is a lot of warpy stuff - did you have digital stab enabled? Not sure how the G85 is configured. For vlogging this would be too distracting. I'm curious why they would come out with this 10mm zero-d after they have a 9mm zero-d? Odd... the price is good.
The 9mm is designed for apsc even though there is a version for m43. While this 10mm is specially designed for m43 cameras and therefore more compact design
@@TheRealRichardWong And also because this is after the group join and therefore offers the contacts and electronic features.
So it can control aperture in camera, but how about the focus? 🤔 Not a fan of mf, unless it's astrophotography. But I guess it's not weather sealed too? 🤔
Nice video and great shots Richard ...... but is this lens ever going to be released?? ;-) Rich
Haha Rich thanks and I am honestly a bit surprised the lens is not released yet. Let me check with laowa and see if I can get some info for you
Hey Rich, i''ve just checked with Laowa, they said they have already been shipping the lens. Where are you trying to order it from?
@@TheRealRichardWong I've looked on WEX and Amazon Richard but nothing. My plan was to wait until its been on general sale for some months and get one 2nd hand (I buy all equip 2nd hand now) but at this rate its going to be a very long time before I get one. Many thanks for the quick response much appreciated.
Great review! I need to make up my mind between this lens or the 7.5mm one for walking videos
Hey Sean, thanks for watching. 7.5mm is wider but a bit more perspective distortion but yeah hard to choose
@@TheRealRichardWong yeah...I know that the 7.5’s aperture needs to be controlled from the lens, but do you know if I set it to say, f5.6, will that number appear on the LCD at all? Or will it just show -- ?
Not the 7.5mm lens as it doesn't have electronic contacts.
The 7.5 is very very wide, Sean. It's great for getting a full width dashboard shot inside a car or a full room view inside a room, and for relatively large groups of people a distance away, but up close your nose is going to look like the Auckland sky tower with this thing :-D Probably depends which body and if there's any crop in the format you shoot in.
@@fredio54 thanks fredio, yeah i’d be shooting MFT so there’s a 2x crop.
7.5mm f2 vs 10mm f2 whats better ?
7.5mm is much wider angle. Can't compare the two directly
A 17mm sharp and fast lens would be nice. Something that would feel good on my PenF not to large.
What aperture would you want for your ideal 17mm lens?
@@TheRealRichardWong Don’t know enough about lens design to know. But maybe 1.4 need to keep it small enough to be fun to shoot.
This looks excellent. They are filling a gap :-)
Why haven't Oly and Pany made an AF lens like this?
Panasonic has the 10-25mm f1.7
@@JericTamayo The Laowa is small and reasonably priced, the Pany 10-25 is the opposite.
Yes I have mentioned to panasonic I want to see a small kit lens that is a bit wider than 12mm even if the tele end is shorter... 9 or 10mm wide end would be perfect
@@MichaelGerrard I can understand your point. But think about it, if you're going to acquire a lot of fast glass between 10-25mm, you're actually saving up space in your bag and roughly the same price as having different focal lengths of similar opening of the aperture at f1.7. And depending on the user, I personally have no problem carrying around a ~700g lens around with me for hours. I walk around with the PL100-400 for hours no problem.
I have the Olympus 12mm F2 lens which is pretty close.
@richard, i ran into problems with this Laowa 10mm using BMPCC4k. If i take videos or pictures from >2 ft, i can't focus sharp (it's not just soft in the center, but blurry). I tested it with Lumix GH5 with no issue, using similar settings (ISO 1600, f2), and also using each permutated aperture setting. I reported to Laowa support with test videos (th-cam.com/video/Fhfj4AZYwIM/w-d-xo.html) as proof. They don't think it's their lens issue, but it's with BMPCC4K.
If I use this lens for close-up, either indoors or outdoors videos / photos, or < 2 ft distance, i can get sharp and focused results.
Do you encounter a similar sharpness issue? thanks
Hi ray, no I didn't experience the same issue at all, I have tried it with a gh5 and g85 both are good
I also have had issues with lenses not focusing properly on the BMPCC4K, and it has something to do with the sensor thickness being different from most other m43 cameras, which is also why metabones made a different speed booster specifically for the pocket 4K. Something about the distance of the sensor to the lens glass, the flange focal distance being different. Or something along those lines. I have a few lenses that just couldn’t focus on the BMPCC4K but focus fine on my lumix micro four thirds cameras.
@@TrepidJon That is super unfortunate! It's clearly not at the correct distance for the mount format. Ouch.
@@fredio54 yeah and if you watch Ray’s lens test video with the pocket 4K, it seems like a mount issue on top of the flange distance issue. Double wonky th-cam.com/video/X0b2fssXXyU/w-d-xo.html
@@TrepidJon Wow, that's horrible. I wonder if the BM camera mount is worn or deformed or like that from new? Maybe it's made of a softer material, done some miles as a pro camera, and become worn out? Just guessing.
Where can we buy this?
The affiliated link I put in video description should work.. let me know if it doesn't
@@TheRealRichardWong perfect
oh wow.... how do you feel this compares to the laowa 7.5 my asian brotha?!
Hey brother, I feel 7.5mm is for someone who wants really wide while this 10mm is wide but a bit more conservative and more suitable as a general use + vlogging lens
Nice, but vignetting is not for me, not at this pricing.
Thanks for watching :)
10mm is not wide enough if you already have a 12mm
You'd be surprised.
I don't like it. Honestly the worst I've seen. That wobble.