Venus Optics has announced a new member for their Argus lens lineup – the Laowa Argus 45mm f/0.95 FF, available for Sony E, Nikon Z and Canon RF Mount. Just before the end of the year, Venus Optics – the company behind the Laowa brand – released their new Argus 45mm f/0.95 FF. It’s a fully manual lens covering full frame on Sony E, Nikon Z, and Canon RF Mount cameras. Compared to Laowa’s usual focus on wide-angle and macro lenses, their Argus lenses have “normal” focal lengths, but feature very fast apertures – currently, all three available Argus lenses feature an aperture of f/0.95. If you’re an attentive CineD reader, you might remember we’ve already written about this lens in February. This was a development announcement by Venus Optics, and while the Argus 35mm f/0.95 FF (Check our lens review here) and Argus 33mm f/0.95 CF APO (APS-C) already came out, the 45mm is becoming available now.Side note: another Argus lens that was already announced is the Argus 25mm f/0.95 for MFT cameras, which will presumably come out in 2022. Argus 45mm f/0.95 FF Sample Footage Venus Optics has uploaded a video containing sample footage shot with the new lens: Judging from the footage, the lens seems to be quite sharp wide open (at least in the center). At aperture values like f/0.95 or even f/1.2 (especially on full-frame), a lot of lens projections lose sharpness, contrast, and overall quality. This doesn’t seem to be the case with this...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 30 December, 2021