The best and most informative ambassador!! The Laowa lenses have no contacts no lens info! I like the Voigtlander 10mm f/5.6 LR has Lens correction and yes a NISI Filter holder but if you use a Mark 2 or below Sony A7 camera you can use Sony PlayMemories app "Digital Filters". If you can drop a line to Sony (hint) ask for Sony PlayMemories to be used on the Mark 3 cameras also, even if they have to be put on a SD card if no room. Also as you have mentioned other place if you shot a jpeg the camera gives a lens correction (you pay for it) and a jpeg can be worked in post. Believe it or not the Voigtlander 10mm is also good for Milky Way Astro shooting and with the A7S, A7RM2 and A7M3 you get great shadow recovery and little noise at higher ISO to reduce in post just follow the NPF default rule of 22 seconds for a large nightscape and small Milky Way and fewer shots for panoramas.

wow that is a lovely shot with the pink trees

In my opinion you are the best Sony ambassador. I always enjoy watching your videos. Just a side note, your glasses are very nice but I think they are little bit too big for you in my opinion.

Great to see a review of third party lens. Have yet to check on price, but imagine this lens would be significantly cheaper than Sony offerings. The lens speed would not be a problem for me as would have camera mounted on tripod as this very wide angle would be set at e.g f/8/11 .

looks like a good piece of glass, and also compact in size. should make way into my wishlist

got this lens. its quite fun if you can find a use for it! and when compared to the voitlander 10mm f5.6 this seems like a no brainer

O yeah..! Very Interesting and more challenging to use this focal length

As usual you provide a very well laid out logical review. I am going to hold out for a 02-06mm zoom;)

A shame it does not have electronic contacts (and LR profile). Same with Laowa 15mm/2

Now THAT is a filter

Nice lens for architectural photography, my G master often wasn't wide enough.

A bit of a pain to deal with a circular polarizer isn't it? I guess you can hold the filter up to your eye, rotate to the proper place, then note where the "top" is, and then after installing on the back of the lens, make sure that the "top" of the filter would be where the top of the lens would be, after you rotate it onto your camera body? phew, just hurts thinking about it

Hoya doesn’t offers only ND4 and ND8 filters at 37mm.

Thanks for the video. How is the voit 15mm compare to it as far as sharpness at 15mm?

Will Sony update the 12-24mm F4 soon?

Hi Mark, I enjoy your vids. I was hoping you could help me make a decision about lens choice. I Currently have the tamron 28-75, Sony 70-200 GM, and the 17-28 on the way. While I really enjoy the lenses I have, I’m left feeling that I need a little bit more particularly on the wide end. I haven’t tried the 17-28 yet, but if it’s as good as the 28-75 I’m sure I’ll be at least satisfied with the IQ, especially given the price. However, I know that 17mm isn’t wide enough for me at the wide end, having briefly owned the 16-35f4. The reason this matters is because, while I’m no pro, a friend of mine who works in real estate asked me if I’ve done real estate photography, which I haven’t, but based on what reviewers say and based on my experience with the 16-35, I need a lens that’s a little wider. I was considering the lens you reviewed in this video, but 10mm is way too wide. And because I normally don’t shoot ultra wide, I just wanted my widest zoom lens to be just wide enough to be able to do things like real estate photography, or just whenever I have to itch to shoot wide. I don’t know what to do because spending ~1000 (after tax) for the laowa isn’t that appealing because it’s not a lens I’ll use all the much. It feels like the sigma 14-24mm might be the way to go for me, but I don’t know how I feel about having the gap between 24-28. Also, while sigma lenses have really nice image quality, they’re always way heavier than alternatives and every sigma I’ve seen reviewed looked sluggish in terms of AF. It’s also about $500 more than the tamron. The Sony 12-24 could also be an option, but it’s even more expensive than the sigma, but at least it’s native glass so it should do better acquiring focus and it’s probably going to be a lot lighter. And they both have protruding front elements, which I don’t like. If you were in my situation, what would you do? Any advice would be appreciated. Keep up the good work with the videos sir

I happened to watch your videos and they are really informative! If I don’t need such a short focal length as 10mm or 11mm, will it do a trick to buy a 9mm APC-S lens and use it with a crop mode? What could be serious drawbacks compared to, say, 14mm or 15mm lenses? I am tempted to buy the small 9mm lens, since it’s really compact and easy to apply filters. :)

Not every manufacturer makes 37mm filters, are there some good quality filter brands in this size? I’ve had trouble finding some from brands I trust.

Nice video, please can you tell lens manufacturers especially Fuji, to give us an 18mm f1.2 lens I will be very grateful...

Hi, please I need your advice. I have Sigma A-mount and I bought sony a9. So I need to buy conventer. Which one is better? Sony la-ea4 or Sigma mc-11SA-E? Thank you for your helpful.

I can’t imagine using the 10mm focal length. I guess if you like capturing your feet in each shot. The 12-24mm f/4 is plenty wide. I guess this is an architectural dream though.

Would you recommend the Laowa or voigtlander 10mm?

Would you recommend this lens for, long exposures? with moving vehicles at night.

I have heard that UV filters are useless for digital cameras. It was meant to filter out unwanted wavelength of light that film did not take too well. Is this a myth?

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He forgot to mention the sony one is $3k vs Laowa $0.8K

Sigma is releasing 12-24 f/2.8