No time lah bro

I will give it a go soonest I can.

However, here's my initial hands-on review.

Packages and Unboxing.
The package came with all Laowa original ultra-slim MC UV lens filter, an ND 1000 filter and a slim MRC CPL filter. All the packages display a premium feel to it. The lens itself is vacuum-packed in a tough plastic. It came with a Quality certificate, a Guarantee card and an Instruction manual.

Lens accessories
The Laowa 7.5/2,0 came with a small petal lens hood made of metal, aluminium I presumed, a front pinch lens cap and a standard rear m43 lens cap. It has a dark pink ring at the front of the lens. It looks cool. I like it.

Lens
It's a nicely built lens and has a nice feel to it. Very sturdy. I ordered the ultra-light version of course, which weighs 150gm, 20gm less than the standard version. I presume this is due to a lighter material like hard plastic being used, meant for aerial photography. It's apertures are from 2,0 - 22 with a 110degree FOV.

It is a tad shorter than the Olympus 12mm f2.0 (weight: 130gm) vs Laowa 7.5mm f2.0 (weight: 150gm - ultra-light version). Focusing ring is quite well-damped, not too loose and not too tight. With focus peaking, it works flawlessly. The aperture stops clicked into places very nicely, the clicks are not too hard but it still clicks into place. For video guys who wants to make full use of apertures during shoots this might not be good news

Here's the special features of the lens as stated from the Manual:

Quote:

1) LAOWA C-Dreamer 7.5mm F2.0 MFT is a mirrorless interchangeable lens designed for m4/3 system cameras. Special double-sided aspherical glass elements are incorporated into the extremely compact lens which can provide remarkable optical performance and low distortion imaging.

2) Three pieces of ED (Extra-low-Dispersion) glass elements are included to achieve apochromatic effect.

3) All-metal mechanical construction ensures lens' high assembly precision and long-lasting durability.

4) The Frog Eye Water-repellent Coating, known as 'FEC', applied to the first glass of the lens front element surface contributes to protecting against water droplets, smudges and oil. Multi-layer anti-reflection (AR) Coating applied to every lens element is designed to eliminate ghosting and flare as possible."

Unquote.

Usage
The pana GX8 will detect an MF lens immediately once it's mounted on the body. So you will set the lens length once its mounted. Using the lens is easy. I prefer Focus Peaking as the focusing of choice as I don't have good eyesight so that is the next thing I do on the GX8. Once this is done then shooting is just a breeze.

The lens size compliment very well on the GX8 and make the whole setup small and not intimidating.

There you go.

Hopefully I will find time to test-drive the lens soon. I want to give it a good spin it deserves and not simply shoot my backyard.

This post has been edited by bobds78: Aug 2 2017, 08:35 PM

nice preview...i have seen sample pic in china forum...the picture is astonishing.

see? see this is the poison im talking about..

no! no! dun throw away donate to me.
i poorfag.....

Please show the url address here bro, I love to see it for myself.

In it's feature sets, it was mentioned that "special double-sided aspherical glass elements are incorporated in the design", this is the first time I heard of such thing as "double-sided aspherical glass". Also there are 3 pcs of ED (extra low dispersion) lenses are lined up too in the design. With all this good things thrown into such a small lens, I wonder how sharp is this lens. How nice if DXOMARK can have a go at this little beauty.

http://forum.xitek.com/thread-1608966-1-1-1.html

i also interested to see the Laowa review leh

now in the market for a UWA lens since I sold off my 7-14mm 4.0 already

surprisingly no one want to help you since you no time.
i was expecting the guys here to say "if you no time then we help you test la, so where can meet to borrow your lens?"

Come visit me at KK, you can have it out for a spin

Wow,love the page. .thanks brother

alrite bro.
where to meet in Kuala Kangsar?

8mm f4 manual, but damn cheap
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1322...m_f_4_lens.html

But not sure if it'll be sharp enough or not.

KK as in Kota Kinabalu bro

f4 so slow

i'm a speed demon, need very low f punya

yeah i agree.
i like to use f0.0.
but problem is picture blur.

Ya 3L is selling the cheapest and for new with warranty on LZD.

Already dealth with incubus_skj too bad i was late
Other than that never seen much other used for sell.


Thanks

Fortunately for Pen F users, this body is able to generate EXIF data for Laowa 7.5mm f2.0 lens as can be seen from one of the posts in the link provided by BOTAK_WAI.
see the photo below, Olympus made it so easy for their users to setup MF lenses as there is a list of MF lenses for users to choose from and once set, he Pen F will pick up the various shooting info and generate an EXIF data for each shot. How ingenious? Panasonic, please update our GX8 with proper firmware soon, if Olympus can do it, so can you!

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This post has been edited by huislaw: Aug 4 2017, 07:55 PM

Affordable ultra wide manual lens @ 199USD

SLR Magic 8mm f4