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- When Jimmy met Laowa in Hong Kong, he was very impressed with two of their new ultra wide manual lenses for Micro Four Thirds. If you need the widest rectilinear lens for your Olympus camera, these can be great options, providing that you can operate manual lenses. But with these two so close to each other, Jimmy used the opportunity to demonstrate what they are capable of, together with highlights of there strength and weaknesses, so you can make an informed decision to see which one is best for you.
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For any MFT users trying to decide between Laowa 7.5mm, 9mm, or the new 10mm; I personally recommend getting the 9mm first. It might be all you need.
I bought the 7.5mm first for use with architecture interiors of apartments and homes (real estate photography). It's a great lens, but it's a bit to wide for most rooms, though it is ideal for kitchen, bathroom, and closets. The 9mm (which I bought later) is ideal for all rooms the size of bedrooms and larger rooms like living room. I also find the 9mm to be ideal for architecture exteriors and landscapes (where the 7.5mm is a bit too wide for those things IME).
Both the 9 and 7.5 are great and very useful as a team, but if I could only own one it would be the 9mm becayse its FOV is more useful in more circumstances. Also the 9mm is easier to use for good results because it has less perspective distortion, and on MFT the 9mm has no barrel distortion, very little vignetting, and sharp corner to corner from F2.8 to F11. I find the 9mm photos need no work in post, even for architecture.
One reason the 9mm is (IMO) perfect on an MFT camera is that the 9mm was originally made for APS-C cameras. It's optically excellent on APS-C cameras in center of frame, very good at edges of frame, and good at corners; but on an MFT camera its excellent across entire frame.
Great review Jimmy! I love my Laowa 7.5mm and I use it regularly for architectural and landscape shots. It's super sharp and compact but suffers a little from vignetting which of course can be eliminated in post process.
A good introductory review, thanks.
Great content man~ Subscribed!
The Laowa 7.5mm is a great lens for astro photography. Keeps things rectilinear and its sharp enough wide open. Good review!
Oly 7-14 better
The Laowa 7.5 makes amazing Aperture Stars!!!
Wonderful review and nice touch at the end
suprised to hear Cantonese
I really enjoy you begrudgingly reading the specifications... really emphasises that specs don't really have anything to do with photography...
Oh the Cutty Sark in Greenwhich ! Love the foot tunnel under the Thames at this place.
Well done video and - again - a lot to take away for me.
The specs you show read a viewing angle of 110° for the 7.5 and 113° for the 9mm, but the latter one is on an APS-C sensor. On our beloved MFT cameras it is 100° for the 9mm.
Just to mention it.
@@gireshmeghan5060 On MFT it has approx the same viewing angle as an 18mm on FF.
Ah, so no pigeon in the box afterall.
What luck there were some MFT lenses in the package!!! 👍
Great clip, thank you!
Hi Jimmy I watched this a few times. Thanks. I’ve decided on the 9mm. Christmas gift to myself. Have a great Christmas. Be safe.
Cheers Neil! Enjoy your new lens :) Merry Christmas!
Nice. I guess it is the only video available featuring both the lenses. Is it possible to make some side by side shots available to understand the angle of view? And if possible with comparisons with Olympus or Samyang fish eyes?? With Olympus bodies, can we perform keystone correction on 7.5 and then how does it compare to 9mm zero D after the correction??
The 7.5mm is a beast! I use it for my timelapses, there is no alternative on the mft market for that..
Also it is great as a selfie lens :D but a bit expensive for only that purpose :D
Great review, now I just need to decide if 7.5 or 9 is the right one for me, perhaps both ... ???
I love that yoi guys actually don't shoot everything with bikes. I feel like I get a better sense of the surroundings. Why not just sit in studio is you're only going to blur the background. This is nice.
I could never find good deals for those UWA m43 primes whereas I often found good deals for used m.zuiko 9-18mm which is a tiny lens with AF and it allows for a normal focal length too which makes it great for vacation. I sometimes hate that I have to unfold it to shoot it but it has its size advantage. Another plus is the excellent Olympus service. For some reason I see very few offers for those used manual primes (except for fisheye lenses) and brand new they are quite expensive. The only reason to upgrade I would understand is a potentially much better image quality as 9-18mm is kit lens quality. But it's Olympus kit lens so it was always good enough and f4 does not hurt so much in UWA with a stabilised body.
@13:25 "it's just puuuuuuurrrrr" 😂
Nice video. I am considering die 9mm for my Fuji 🤔
I own these lenses. They're so easy to zone focus that I seldom need to use peaking. The DOF is so much that focusing by any manual method (zone, peaking, or magnification) is easy. It's also very easy to have deep DOF when wanted. I think there's no need for AF on lenses this wide. I appreciate and use the excellent DOF and focusing scale on the lens barrel. The image quality from both lenses is impressive. The 9mm MFT lens is my favorite lens for my EM10ii camera because it has excellent image quality, color, contrast, rendering and character. In a word, the photos "pop" (similar to Leica or Sigma). Also, I don't have to do anything to my architectural photos in post because I see no barrel distortion. The 9mm is the best UWA lens ever made, IMO. The 7.5mm is a close second, but for architecture it needs some slight barrel correction in post.
Thanks for the informative video. Now i want this lense heh. Did you stop using your Pen-F, btw?
Have you done a recent roundup of ultra wide mft options including these and some that have come out since?
for still shot video or 7.5mm or 9mm slowly movement??, difficult choice, I'm looking for a lens that gives this cinema aspect with a wide shot, I'm filming on a lumix g9.
Looks like a great piece of glass. I don’t understand why Uncle Oly doesn’t use its old tried and true Zuiko Manuel platform lens body. I still shoot with my OM-1n OM-2n & OM-2s. The 28mm f2.0 is a beautiful lens. That group of glass is the perfect size for the M1-M2 body.
Gimball is required for this lens 7,5mm even if i use with panasonic g9 ?
So which one is better? I needed to replace my samyang FE 7.5mm, and use to travel photos documentary & selfie ... ??
nice video,, will you consider make more portrait BTS video using 3 olympus F1.2 pro lens ?
Would you choose the12mm Olympus vs. either Laowa for best Landscape results..in your opinion please:?
Thanks for the review! I've been eyeing the 7.5mm for quite a while now, just the price that's making me hesitate to click on the checkout button. I've been wanting to experiment taking street shots using ultra-wides, as I think it would give an interesting perspective. Guess I'll have to starve for a while to save up for this lens...
Loan the bank, apply instalment plan...you get what you like and responsible for your debt🤣 there is one downside is the flare resistance of the len is horrible
@@StaffViet2009 compared to the Oly 7-14 it's pretty tame. A little better than the Oly pro fisheye but both are better than the Oly 7-14 in that regard
The 7.5mm is a great little lens, only major drawback I find is that there is no lens profile for it, so end up with photos with barrel distortion
Kid with the pigeon at 3:32 LOL!
I'd like to ask you a question. I'm looking forward to get one of this two lenses. My main use would be for narrative shorts with the bmpcc4k. Does the 7,5 produce distortions? Which one would be the more appropriate for that?
Ferran Hernandez they are also for different cameras unless you can adapt them to what you have
I'm going to film a short in a very cramped place. I"ll need a decent wide angle that doesn't distort too much. Which one do you think, the 7.5 or the 9mm? Thanks! For me distortion is what's going to kill it or make it.
How are they for astrophotography, in all kind of weather?
Do you edit those photos beforehand?
I think your Chinese very sounded! I like it so much, and this video does help me.
I see there is an Laowa 7.5mm T2.1 MFT Cine coming soon, around the same price, it might be a better option especially for ND filters
And what do you choose for astrophotography with MFT?
I had problems to mount the lens always turning the aperture ring up to 22 with the fear of overtightening it. It is so near the base!. So I returned it. In this video you did not seem to have any problem to mount it.
P.S. Your selfie with Herny VIII may be a dangerous warning for your female assistents!
The Olympus em10markii doesn’t have manual lens OIs setting for 7.5mm the nearest is 8mm only. U got any workaround idea? 8mm will it compromise my ois during photo taking?
No unfortunately however, 0.5mm difference won't affect that much, the camera usually adjust the power for the IBIS so this is very minimal difference and using 8mm is more than enough
hi...i want to ask about infinity focus?if you set it on f8 do you have to align the infinity sign on the middle?where theres a red line?thanks
No, you have to use the 'scale' on the lens. I presume you want to use hyper focus technique. So, if you set to f/8, check the scale to see what range of distance the lens covers. The infinite sign has to line up with 'f8'.
@@Red35Photographythanks for the reply i'm so confuse..some other says i have to align the infinity sign on the red line and also the aperture i want..im using it on video..hope i can see photos of what you mean...😊 can you send me a photo on my email? for example i want to set infinity to f8...gomogomoproductions@gmail.com, thank you
Great video! Which would you recommend for real estate videography?
Seems that the 7.5mm would be perfect.
@@roxbittman yeah!! I got the 7.5mm a little while ago and it's done a great job so far!
Since the aperture is set in lens what do you set the in camera aperture to?
No, the aperture control ring is on the lens itself. There's any electronic contact so you can't control anything from the camera's menu or dials.
Will the focus point not be displayed in the viewfinder when using 7.5mm on the EM1.3?
Yes, it will display but it means nothing because the lenses are manual focus only. You can set magnify point for verification, which is what I do usually.
@@Red35Photography oh ok thanks for the reply. It’s handy to see the green box even though I have to do manual focusing. Is there any setting that I should change? Because I don’t see it.
There is a newer version of the 7.5mm lens with electric contacts for auto focus and information being shown in the viewfinder.
Yes, there is, I made this video a couple of years ago, a year before the new electronic version came out. Since then, Laowa had made electronic versions of 7.5mm, 10mm, 50mm macro and the latest 6mm that I also reviewed :)
Please help me. I am a realtor doing video filming Property.Which lens should I choose for filming 7.5mm or 9mm??
7.5 is better, as it's wider and gives you better flexibility, distortion is really minor and shouldn't be a worry.
@@Red35Photography thaks
Street photography is making Tracy walk back and forth until you captured the "decisive moment."
More like ‘shooting b-roll is making Jimmy walk back and forth until we’ve captured it from multiple angles’ ;)
@@Red35Photography that too! Haha
Please, is there a Lens Profile for psd?
No there’s no profile for manual lenses at presence
No there’s no profile for manual lenses at presence
P.S. - I don't mind the Laowa 7.5mm and 9mm manual aperture. I prefer to shoot in Aperture Priority Mode anyway. I shoot all my wide angle lenses (including Oly 12mm and 17mm) in AP Mode all the time, and my normal, tele, and zoom lenses in AP Mode most of the time, with occasional use in Program Mode.
There’s also the 8mm slr magic i use my self
I actually did a comparison on both the Laowa 7.5 and the SLR 8mm and the Laowa blows the SLR out of the water with sharpness, its very noticable.
First!
How can someone film himself if it is a manual lense?
Dolf Calc for android (in my case) explain it very well. For exemple focused at 2 m with f8 sharpness or dof goes from 1.25m to 4.9m .
Why isn’t the Olympus 8mm pro lens better? Isn’t that lens much wider and faster? Or you just referring to manual only lenses
Very simply, the Olympus 8mmPro is a fisheye lens, while the Laowa lenses are rectilinear. Very different lenses.
Fisheye correction on the Olympus 8mm can still be much wider angle according to reviews and comparisons. I just don’t get why people wouldn’t want that instead. But then the laowa is tiny and light
@@Spartacous90B fisheye correction is far from perfect, why not simply get it right in camera?
Also the Laowa lenses (especially the new cine versions) are perfect for video work, not only being rectilinear, but also manual focus and aperture. Just because a lens is faster doesn't make it "better".
@@flyingfox2005 yeah I guess you are right. But then I guess just because a lens is rectilinear with manual focus and aperture doesn't make it "better" for other types of photography :P
@@Spartacous90B absolutely. There are reasons to buy both the Olympus 8mm pro and the Laowa wide angles. It depends on the individuals needs and shooting style. ;-)
Can't really like the 7.5 ... I own it and it got much distortion at edge ... When u pan, it's so so strange in real ....
i would gladly take it off your hands 😉
@@renemuellervideo ok
do you by chance have it up on ebay or some other way I can get it off your hands?
Your shutter speed it to high for video. Stop down if you need to to avoid the zombie shutter speeds. Nice video otherwise. I have the ultra light of 7.5 and it's plenty sturdy. Love it
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