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RE: New Laowa lenses - Klaus - 10-27-2018
Well, the 10-18mm sample is decentered ...
RE: New Laowa lenses - JJ_SO - 10-27-2018
And the Irix works again today. Maybe the bike ride yesterday evening shook it loose enough?
Anyway, the 10-18 for Z mount has it's charm, two years before Nikon intends to make a 14-24...
That's were an EVF really shines: manual focus in 100% enlargement.
RE: New Laowa lenses - MatjazO - 10-27-2018
(10-27-2018, 11:34 AM)JJ_SO Wrote: That's were an EVF really shines: manual focus in 100% enlargement.
Yup, compared to mission impossible on typical DSLR, manual focus with EVF is brilliant. Either magnified or with focus peaking.
RE: New Laowa lenses - Klaus - 10-28-2018
Some snaps from the decentered Laowa 10-18mm ...
https://photozone.smugmug.com/Laowa-10-18mm-f45-56/
By showing you, it wasn't all in vain getting up at 3:45am for this ...
RE: New Laowa lenses - JJ_SO - 10-28-2018
Is it the left side which suffers of decenterring? You're playing with the reputation of OL, like "if a decenterred lens still is able to catch this kind of photographs, it can't be that bad..."
Fantastic, I like what I see, not because of the lens, but because of some of the pictures. Of which I could not get the info about aperture or focal length. But then, Laowa made it from stone age to bronze age by adding a spring aperture for the 5 aperture blades. And the oooh-so fantastic 10 beam sunstar highlights. Are sunstars the next hot shit? "You can' have EXIF but you can have 5 aperture blades and 10 beam highlights"
better than nothing, or - beware - getting a decenterred copy...
RE: New Laowa lenses - Rover - 10-28-2018
Yeah, I'm amused (and/or dismayed) at the amount of hype swirling around the sunstar issue. For lots of people this has suddenly become the make-or-break issue when choosing lenses.
What's the next big thing I wonder? (I tried and failed to find something that would be both realistic and amusing, but I know the internet people will surely find something to agonize over eventually. )