![]() ![]() Laowa 35mm 0.95 FF, Sony FE 35mm 1.4 GM, Sigma 35mm 1.2 Art DG DN I like the small size of the hood so I wouldn’t mind leaving it on all the time, but it is a bit too shiny for me on the inside, so if it was my lens I would paint the inside with matte black paint or add some felt. The lens comes with a small bayonet type tulip shaped metal hood. Laowa 35mm 0.95 FF with metal hood attached on Sony A7rII The outer casing of the lens seems to be made from mainly metal and a few high quality polycarbonate parts, markings are engraved and filled with paint. This is also the reason for the not so exciting minimum focus distance: to allow the lens focusing closer it would have needed to be significantly bigger. The Laowa 35mm 0.95 FF features a complicated internal focus design with one fixed and two moving groups that is supposed to ensure good image quality at different distances. ![]() Still, thanks to the full stop click stops it is possible again to set a desired aperture value without having to look at the lens. The aperture ring does feature click stops and even a declick lever (so a clear improvement over the Laowa 33mm 0.95 CF lens) but again the stops are not equidistant and therefore really cramped together on the aperture ring between f/4.0 and f/16. This is a rather long focus throw which I think is a very good design choice for an f/0.95 lens where you will often deal with shallow depth of field and need to be able to precisely set focus. The focus ring has a really nice resistance and turns roughly 270° from the minimum focus distance of 0.50 m to infinity. Focus as well as aperture need to be set manually on the lens. The Laowa 35mm 0.95 FF is an all manual lens without any electronic contacts or communication with your camera. The lens be ordered from the manufacturer’s homepage | | B&H (affiliate links) for $649 Handling/Build quality Argus writing Maximum Magnification: 1:10.8 (measured).Number of Aperture Blades: 15 (rounded).Weight: 795g (without hood, without caps).The Laowa 35mm 0.95 is the first fullframe 35mm lens with a maximum aperture of f/0.95. The Laowa 35mm 0.95 was kindly provided free of charge by Venus Optics / Laowa for reviewing purpose for a few weeks. Li, optical designer and CEO, Laowa Disclosure To maintain good optical performance across the distance range a complex floating elements design with two independently moving groups has been incorporated.Īs is most important for a lens with these parameters, the optical design ensures the background bokeh is extraordinarily smooth a nd when shooting stopped down the highlights stay perfectly round thanks to using 15 rounded aperture blades.” Yet t he goal was also to keep the size reasonable, so the lens would still be fun to use. “The idea was to design a 35mm fullframe wide angle lens with a maximum aperture of f/0.95 like the world has never seen before. What the optical designer says about the lens What the optical designer says about the lens. ![]()
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