Venus Optics Laowa Wide 15mm F/4 Macro
Ultra-wide angle prime lens • Digital era
- Announced:
- · June 2015
- Production status:
- ● In production
- Country of design:
- · PRC (People's Republic of China)
- Original name:
- · LAOWA 15mm F4 WIDE MACRO 1:1
- Class:
- · Slow full-frame ultra-wide angle prime lens
- · Professional model
Abbreviations
| MACRO | Macro lens. Designed specially for shooting close-ups of small subjects but can be also used in other genres of photography, not necessarily requiring focusing at close distances. Learn more |
Specification
| Optical design: | |
| 35mm full frame | |
| 15mm | |
| F/4 | |
| 12 elements in 9 groups | |
| 1 ED, 3 HRI | |
| Leica L | |
| Sony E | |
| 110.5° (35mm full frame) | |
| On Leica T/TL/CL APS-C [1.53x] cameras: | |
35mm equivalent focal length: | 23mm (in terms of field of view) |
35mm equivalent speed: | F/6.1 (in terms of depth of field) |
Diagonal angle of view: | 86.6° |
| On Sony NEX/a/ZV APS-C [1.53x] cameras: | |
35mm equivalent focal length: | 23mm (in terms of field of view) |
35mm equivalent speed: | F/6.1 (in terms of depth of field) |
Diagonal angle of view: | 86.6° |
| Diaphragm mechanism: | |
Diaphragm type: | Manual |
Aperture control: | Aperture ring |
| 14 (fourteen) | |
| Focusing: | |
| 0.122m | |
| 1:1 | |
Focusing modes: | Manual focus only |
Manual focus control: | Focusing ring |
| Physical characteristics: | |
| 410g (mount not specified) | |
| ⌀84×?mm (mount not specified) | |
| - | |
| - | |
| Accessories: | |
| Screw-type 77mm | |
| Bayonet-type petal-shaped | |
| <No data> |
Source of data
- Manufacturer's technical data.
From the editor
Although this lens is available with mirrorless camera mounts, optically it is based on a formula calculated for SLR cameras. We decided to record this lens separately in our database, however, for the manufacturer description, please refer to the page dedicated to the optically identical SLR version.
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