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Minimal 12 Months Warranty14 Day ReturnChecked By Professionals4.9 Customer Rating
Minimal 12 Months Warranty14 Day ReturnChecked By Professionals4.9 Customer RatingMinimal 12 Months Warranty14 Day ReturnChecked By Professionals4.9 Customer Rating
Laowa (Venus Optics) builds lenses nobody else builds: 2:1 macros, probe lenses, the 9mm and 12mm Zero-D wide-angles without distortion and anamorphic cine lenses. Manual focus, excellent glass and surprisingly affordable. Used Laowa is the cheapest route to unusual images. Tested for optics and mechanics, with a 12-month warranty.
Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift - Nikon ZOut of stock
Laowa 60mm f/2.8 2:1 Macro - Nikon FOut of stock
Buying used Laowa: macro, wide-angle and cine
Venus Optics from Hefei, China, has existed since 2013 and chose niches from the start. The 100mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro magnifies to 2:1 without extension tubes, the 24mm f/14 Probe literally crawls into a glass of water, and the Zero-D series (9mm, 12mm, 15mm) delivers extreme wide-angle without the barrel distortion you normally accept. For mirrorless cameras there are autofocus variants of a few models, and the cine line offers anamorphic and spherical primes with T-stops and gears.
Most Laowa lenses are manual and mechanical, so we mainly check the focus and aperture rings for smoothness, the glass for scratches and dust and, on macro lenses, whether the internal mechanism runs evenly over the full travel. On autofocus versions we test the motor and the contacts.
Laowa offers many lenses in several mounts; check on the product page that the item fits your camera and whether it is meant for full-frame, APS-C or Micro Four Thirds. Questions? We are happy to help.