While having too many lenses in your camera bag may hurt your shoulder or back, it never hurts your wallet to have too many lenses to choose from when searching for a specific lens or look.
So, it’s always good news to see another new, high-quality lens on the market.
We have a new Laowa wide-angle zoom from Venus Optics to check out, featuring a pretty unique parfocal design that could be appealing to filmmakers, videographers, or other hybrid photo and video creators.
Let’s take a look at the Laowa 4.5-10mm f/2.8 CF Zoom Fisheye and explore what it could offer as a potential addition to your camera bag.
The Laowa 4.5-10mm f/2.8 CF Zoom Fisheye
Designed to be an easy-to-use “everyday” lens option, this new Laowa fisheye zoom offers a unique perspective for your APS-C or MFT camera system, delivering dual fisheye effects in a single compact lens. It does this by enabling a smooth transition from a dramatic circular fisheye effect at 4.5mm to an immersive diagonal fisheye perspective at 10mm.
The lens's flexibility and versatility make it usable in both natural and experimental shooting situations. It also offers a 180-degree ultra-wide field of view, a constant f/2.8 aperture, and close focusing capabilities, so it should be usable for pretty much whatever wide-angle shooting scenarios you can dream up.
The fisheye lens also features a parfocal design that should help eliminate the need to refocus during shooting and result in more seamless zoom transitions, which should look pretty great when recording video with the lens.
Price and Availability
Overall, the new Laowa 4.5-10mm f/2.8 CF Zoom Fisheye is unique, quality, and affordable. It’s not the cheapest on the market, but it’s certainly within range for most videographers looking for a unique zoom to add to their bags.
If interested, here are the full specs and purchase options.
- APS-C Format | f/2.8 to f/22
- Fast Fisheye Zoom Lens
- 175-180° Angle of View
- Minimum Focusing Distance: 3.9"
- Manual Focus Design
- Circular and Rectangular Fisheye Effects
Venus Optics Laowa 4.5-10mm f/2.8 CF Zoom Fisheye Lens
Offering dynamic distortion, a bright maximum aperture, and a wide angle of view, the Laowa 4.5-10mm f/2.8 CF Zoom Fisheye Lens from Venus Optics is an APS-C zoom lens designed for bold perspectives and artistic expression.
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