Wide angle and macro lens specialist Venus Optics won two EISA Awards this year for two of its lenses: the Laowa Argus 33mm and 15mm Zero-D Shift. The EISA Awards are a yearly event where the jury chooses their favorite products in the categories HiFi, Home Theatre Audio, Home Theatre Display & Audio, In-Car Electronics, Mobile Devices, and Photography. This year, they chose two Laowa lenses as winners of two categories. Winners of other categories include Sony, Nikon, Canon and Fujifilm cameras. Tamron, Sony, Nikon, Canon, and Sigma lenses were announced as award winners as well. You can find all winners on EISA’s website. Laowa Argus line The Laowa Argus 33mm f/0.95 CF APO won the Best Product Manual Lens Award (read our coverage of the lens here). EISA called it an “exceptionally bright standard lens”. It obtains a “extremely shallow depth of field – especially when combined with its 35cm closest focusing distance”. It’s a lens for mirrorless APS-C cameras, the mount variants are Canon RF, Fujifilm X, Nikon Z and Sony E mount. The Laowa 33mm f/0.95 CF APO won the manual lens EISA award 2021. Credit: Venus Optics The Special Purpose Lens Award was given to the Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift. It’s the widest full-frame shift lens on the market right now. It has a very large image circle of ⌀65mm, even enabling usage on medium-format cameras.The EISA jury wrote: Despite its very demanding optical design, it’s much more affordable than other ultra-wideangle shift lenses. All...
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Published By: CineD - Monday, 16 August, 2021
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