Laowa 14mm f/4: Tiny, Well-Built, Accessibly-Priced, Manual Focus Rectilinear Super-Wide
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2020
- There's a lot to be said for this kind of lens, and Laowa delivers to the price point. Shipping in October. Be sure to check B&H (bhpho.to/3efywkn) & Adorama (bit.ly/36twavI) for pricing & availability.
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You've got a whole Jeff Goldblum thing goin and it works!
😊 He’s great!
Hugh... Once again you amaze, convey a true message, generally educate & inform us. Thank you!!
Lawrence Mayer 🙏🏻😊🖖🏻
Well done. I'm glad I took a moment on 'RUclips' to watch your presentation on the Laowa; of course, this before developing a roll of 120 in Caffenol. We're doing well in Arizona with the smoke from all the fires further west as the plume works it's way across the nation. Does make for interesting photographs on the occasions. Thank you so much.
Your delivery and diction are second to none.
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Thanks for this review. I've purchased this lens (e-mount) after watching your video and I'm satisfied with the performance and the compact size. The lens is handy to have when I really want to push the perspective, but tiny enough that it isn't a chore to keep in the camera bag. It is a nice little lens despite the shortcomings it has. Really this is the first ultrawide I've seen that is both affordable for me and produces passible results.
Awesome photos !
As a prof of environmental stuff and photography hobbyist - kudos on the comment about the fires, nicely done.
Great review and ordered it on your review. 'Hold that thought', have you considered getting in touch with Audible and do some audio books as you sir have a great, relaxing and expressive voice? Back to lens, yeah, for price a winner!
Plus 1 love it too
I love your voice, but also the vocabulary used to deliver the content is second to none. This lens is pretty awsome, and considering that my Voigtlander 10mm/f5.6 has a devastating distortion, a high temptation to go for. I am curious though what did you mean specifically when saying that the 40MP sensor shows the limitation of the glass? Also did not you find the just 5 blade aperture design resulting in some odd shots?
If the lens has optical design compromises or was designed to meet the needs of a lower resolution sensor only, those compromises will become apparently conversely, if a lens is designed for the rigors of higher resolutions than what one is used to seeing, a high resolution sensor will make that lens look even better.
Among the many virtues of this channel is the fact that lenses with apertures as "narrow" as f4 and (gasp!) even f5.6 and higher are not dismissed out of hand for their lack of bokeh. As someone who is getting back into photography after a nearly three-decade hiatus (I am to use your favorite epithet, a "senior") I vaguely recall when depth of field was a good thing. I returned to learn that if the background is not rendered virtually invisible, or even if the subject's entire head was in focus, this was a failure of sorts, either of technology or technique.
Thanks for convincing me that this is yet another failing that I need to discuss with my shrink.
Hah! Your note is a wonderful way to start the day! 🙏🏻😊
You peaked my interest when you said PA, I'm outside of Philly.
I own 2 Laowa lenses, and both are very nice, especially for the price. I like my 2 Voigtlander lenses a bit more, but the price difference makes up for any minor differences. Also, yeah, fires, orange skies happen here in Nevada. Not the pretty kind.
If I didn't already have the laowa 15mm F2.0 Zero D. I would likely get this lenses. As it's much smaller size would be something I would bring on a trip.
Ironically here in SOCAL I have an off shore breeze and sunny blue skies.
Would be interesting to compare with the Voigtlander 15mm f4.5 m mount
Thanks man. Of course I’m storing the comments about the “brilliant” M10-R in the back of my head to continue building the list of excuses I’ll need to call on when I buy one. Just kidding. Yeah...well. And thanks for the closing comment. There’s nothing fake there.
I'm a Nikon shooter , do you have any opinion how his compares optically to their Z 14-30 or their wide primes? thanks! the leica images look lovely
Thank you. If you’re in the Z system, I’d stay with the Z lenses. Their 1.8 primes are fabulous, but I confess I did not spend time with the 14-30 when I had the chance. I should probably rectify that now that Claudia is a Z7 II shooter.
Someone is liking that m10r 🤓
Wonder how this compares to the Voigtlander 15mm 4.5. Smaller footprint, slightly (although probably not appreciably) slower and narrower, and comparatively priced.
Great question. Haven’t gone hands on with the Super Heliars.
I guess i can only find this beautiful Song on epidemic sounds?
Yep!
LordvanDarc It’s also on iTunes. Artist: Short Kip, Song: Sweet Despair (feat. Anya Gold)
@@ignaciocruzatcorrea3595 Thank you very much! I wouldn't have expected that.
good lord, the logo blinded me. this lens is out because of the size of the logo.
get a black permanent marker and go to town
that's my answer to most logos
I understand that the skies over London, England were hazy red, etc. for three years after Krakatoa Volcano exploded August 27, 1883.
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Actually, federally managed forests here in California amount to 97% of the forests here. That’s “yuge ”. So, on another tack, it appears that you now possess a M10-R. I guess that I’m going to have to make do with my plainJane M10. Life is tough...
Bill Daniels oh no, just a loaner. 😊
So the arsonists setting fire to these forests carry no blame? My understanding is that most of these fires were due to direct human intention or negligence. The mismanaged overgrown undergrowth is just the cherry on top. I would love to know how the evidence for climate change, fits into this conclusion. What actual reduction in fire would we see if global warming wasn't a factor? I've not seen anyone cite anything other than an opinion from a scientist. Let's be real, until that scientist publishes a paper where they actual studied the data, their opinion is well informed hypothesis, same as everyone else's.
An overwhelming majority of fires caused in California this season were from lightning (it’s very rare here) and abnormally dry brush (see climate change and how it worsens droughts).
Every time someone talks about mismanaged undergrowth I have to question if they’ve ever seen a map of California or even a photo of California wilderness. There are millions of acres of California impossible to reach without a helicopter let alone carry out brush clearing or controlled burns. In other parts of the world this isn’t such a problem but California hasn’t been getting the precipitation that we would expect (see climate change and how it worsens droughts).
The much fewer cases of negligent fires have been disproportionately reported on as well as the cases of arson. Arsonists often feel like they can get away with starting a fire while wildfires are nearby because they assume it’ll be written off as another wildlife. Arson also isn’t such a danger in places like the Everglades because everything is green and fire won’t travel fast enough to become a problem. California doesn’t have that kind of luxury (see climate change and how it worsens droughts).
In some ways you are correct, however, this has all been caused by negligence since the science on human activity changing the climate has been well known by the scientific community since the 70s but any action has been resisted so the few can continue to make profits from the many. (Climate change only became a political issue in the late 90s once computer climate modeling started putting dates on rising sea levels and the fossil fuels industry turned up the propaganda dial to avoid going the way of the tobacco industry).