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Laowa Announces Eight New Lenses Including a Cine Zoom Lens

Laowa is well-known for making affordable, unique and quality products. Ahead of Photokina, Venus Optics – the company behind Laowa – just announced eight new lenses including three Cine lenses and surprisingly, a Cine zoom with impressive specs. Earlier this year Laowa already announced four new lenses including a 14mm, a 17mm, a 100mm macro, and a 10-18mm zoom lens. These four lenses will be shown for the first time in Europe at Photokina. Also, we reviewed their one-of-his-kind snorkel macro lens, the 24mm f/14 probe lens. Laowa is working hard on getting “niche lenses” out at reasonable price-points and they seem to be doing an impressive job. New Laowa 25-100 T2.9 PL Cine Zoom The most surprising announcement from Laowa is probably their first ever cinema-style zoom lens. The lens has an impressive range from 25 to 100mm, and the aperture is constant through the all range at T2.9. It features three independent aperture/zoom/focus rings, each with an industry standard 0.8 mod/32 pitch gears. The aperture ring is entirely step-less (or de-clicked in photo terms) and marked in t-stops. The lens has 9 aperture blades. The focus ring features nearly 270 degrees of rotation that should provide for extremely accurate focus pulls. The minimum focus distance of the lens is 60cm (23.6″). At the moment we have no information about the dimensions, but regarding weight, the lens is only 2.16 pounds/1.0kg, making it a lightweight zoom in its category. To give you an idea, the Zeiss 21-100mm T2.9-3.9 LWZ.3 zoom...

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Published By: CineD - Saturday, 22 September, 2018

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