28 Wide Counter Depth Fridge

I was in to purchase a 15mm, 2.8 Laowa Venus Lens, a wide lens to landscape and taking all a museum piece from a small distance. I have researched the Laowa Venus 15mm 2.8 lens for my Sony a7iii. It seemed the right choice. The counter salesman (very helpful and awesome attendant) got out from his desk computer a lens that seemed my choice but was a 100 bucks more pricey. Well that seemed wrong, but ... which one was that (?) a Laowa 12 mm 2.8 ? Hey, wait, more aperture for a 100 bucks more. Well it's...a good idea, isn't it? So I took it with in. And ... I just enjoyed it (another positive point to you, counter guy). My Best pictures , ever, of: The Metropolitan Museum (The Met),The Brooklin Bridge, The Atlas Statue at the Rockefeller Center, wow, and many more, within great quality, a good amount of lighting in, and minimum distortortion. Believe me, if you want an full frame E mount (FE) wide angle this is it : this is the right choice. ----about the author: advanced amateur photographer and B&H addicted.

This stand was better than expected. The legs spread very wide which makes it quite stable with a 42 reflector, even without using a counter balance. It meets my needs admirably and with minimal cost.

I am using the lens for more than 6 months on my Leica M6 now, so I am not a pixel counter. I just love it shooting it wide open. The colors and the bokeh are a dream. On film, the lens is super sharp. I also never had a problem with the shifting focus described in other reviews. I never had a 50mm summilux, so I can’t compare. But I use this combined with a 90mm summicron and wouldn’t want to give it back. This lens really has a character that’s suits me very well.

I use it with my prime lenses to shoot wide open and get a very small depth of field..

This lens gives you a very sharp image and is wide enough to create depth and layers in your photos.

I have a canon rf 28-70 that is wide yet not as long as some zooms. This is a great fit.

Wide angle lenses are my favorite because it allows great depth of field especially for street photography. The 16mm (24mm with full sensor) and f2 make it ideal for average light and more...The manual focus, which is smooth, takes a bit to get use to but the focus is 3 ft. to infinity..what can go wrong.....Stopping down about 2 stops plus, like most lenses, gives maximum sharpness..

Works for my Microframe counter.

i use this to complement my 28/135 zoom lens that is simply not wide enough for a nice establshing shoot, i like the picturs this lens creates on my fs700 rig.

I paired this with a D810, and the sharpness and rendering in the central half is like no other Nikkor wide angle I have seen before - outstanding. At f/1.4, things fall off outside the central half, but in a very nice way. By f/2.8, things are really good out to the corners, and superb at f/5.6. There seems to be little field curvature and no focus shift upon stopping down. Compared to the other Nikkor wide angle primes (1.4 and 1.8), this really seems to be a leap forward. The 28mm FL is a bit of a change from the traditional set: My previous WA lens kit (from the D700 days) was the 14-24, 24 f/1.4, and 35 f/1.4. Moving to D8XX showed issues of focus shift with the 14-28, and wide open the 1.4's just did not cut it. The alternative, the 16-35, just had too many weaknesses. Bu, those lenses were quite a lot of weight to carry (harder each year ....). Trimming down now to this lens (28 1.4) and a Milvus 18mm (outstanding) works well in terms of simplification and a dramatic increase in sharpness/rendering for D8XX, especially wide open. I highly recommend the 28 1.4.