Still the best, most honest, and extremely detailed reviews out there brother! Keep up the great work Dustin. Cheers.

I'm french and my english is quite bad but I understand everything you say. The flow of speech is very pleasant and the comparisons are honest. Great job!

5:24 The lens is very sharp in corner. You can see that the water between the boards is sharp because it's further away than the boards. The boards are just too close to be in focus.

I don't get why Dustin hasn't more subscribers. He delivers such good content...

That slap bass intro was great !! ha ha :) Thank you for your great work, as always a really precise work.

Excellent review Dustin! Really enjoyable and informative. Keep up the great work.

As an E-mount user I can choose between Laowa's really fast 15mm F2.0 in native E-mount, or I could opt to go for this 12mm F2.8 lens since Laowa is planning to create a Tilt-Shift adapter fit into E-mount. Decisions.... decisions... By the way I love the fact that Laowa has put a mark where the Entrance pupil is on their lens. More lens makers need to do this.

Great review, and very consistent with what I could see with my copy.

Great review, very informative. Thanks. I've been looking at this lens. I might just have to get one now..

Very good review. this is something we find when think about a help to know better an equipment before to buy it. thank you

Just bought the laowa 12mm for my A7rii used ! Previous owner lost the lens hood. Sometimes get a 'red blob' in the frame when pointing into the sun. Otherwise incredibly sharp! Am about to buy a hood from laowa. I hope this helps with the 'blob'.

This lens' focal length and lack of distortion is perfect for my needs but it seems to lack contrast, it looks a bit hazy. I wonder how much post-processing can make the image match Tamron lenses.

Hi Dustin, very interesting review of an interesting lens. I live in the countryside north of Stockholm, Sweden, where the lanscape, ligtht etc this time of year is very similar to what you have in Canada. The gloom of this period really kills color and microcontrast and while I am sure you are correct in your assesment it would be interesting to know whether the color rendition aspect would be equally pronounced in less gloomy condition. Many thanks for all your great videos!

Hello Dustin,is the best your review for this lens,what think,this lens is worth it or No?,next plan i gone buy this lens if worth it….thank you

the water under the bridge is in focus and its very sharp 5:27 i guess thats why the other things are not in focus not because lens isn't sharp enough

Thank you for you deep review! I want lens mainly for cityscape for large print for my A7r, what lens will give me the best sharpness and overall results? Thank you!

Hi Dustin, nice review. Were you able to evaluate corner sharpness when you actually focus on the corners? I believe some of the perceived lack of corner sharpness is due to pretty pronounce field curvature in this lens (In your image of the pier, one can actually see a sharper plane of focus between the wooden boards). Mitigating field curvature can be tricky in the field, of course, because you don't just want to keep the corners sharp and you don't want to stop down like crazy but you can paint in sharpness from a separate layer (i.e. focus stacking).

I know that most of your videos are review videos, but it would be nice to have some "How to"-videos. Idea came from this lens as it is manual lens. So video would be "Workflow with manual lenses." (Taking picture + post processing). I'm have Canon 80D and these items might be different (easier) for mirrorless lens as you can see the end result in viewfinder. * Focusing. If you in f11 (so you WANT TO take picture with f11) do you always need to rotate back to maximum aperture to able to see through lens and focus. Effect on sport photography (well if you need to focus you might be to slow, but even if you do not need to focus will changing the be pain in ...). * Checking depth of field. Usually you just take a photo or press button to close down aperture for a second. * What it means that you do not get all EXIF data to image file. Just ideas to persons who do not have used manual lens and only after owning manual lens realize that they do not want so much manual work :-) I know that e.g. Samyang added to latest Canon mount 14mm an aperture chip that you can at least control aperture from camera. And use depth of field preview button.

Excellent review Dustin.

Looks like a really interesting lens. I'm pretty crap at using wide angle lenses, but having been having some fun with it lately. Wouldn't mind having a prime or two that are smaller/lighter than my Canon 16-35 though. Often I just end up bringing my Sony 28mm because it's so tiny and get stuck with that as my most wide option.

Good job Dustin!

Excellent review!

Hi Dustin. Would you trade your tamron 15-30 for this lens? I have the choice of buying the new Laowa 12mm for US$1,180 or a 3 month old (basically new) Tamron 15-30 for US$815. I like the Laowa for its convenient size, extra wide focal and zero distortion but the images just dont seem to be that exciting or pop like the Tamron. Is the the better image quality of the tamron worth the burden of carrying the extra weight and size?

Thanks a lot for this very informative Review Dustin. How would you compare this lens vs. the Samyang 12mm: a) re. absolute quality and b) re. price/value ? Best regards from Germany

I would love to see review of Samyang (Rokinon) 10mm XP f/3.5 for Full Frame. I'm considering that or Laowa 12mm f/2.8 as my extreme wide angle to be used with Tamron 15-30 when I need something more wide.

new subscriber. really great review. thanks!

Great and detailed work, however on Nikon there is a mechanical linkage to the camera body that transfers the aperture value from Non-CPU lenses to various camera functions, most importantly flash control and exif. Not so on Canon. Not so on every Nikon body. But present at least on the D8xx and D7xx and PRO Nikon bodies. Non-CPU you specify once and for all in your camera settings menu.

Great review is that you on bass?

How does this lens compare to the Sigma 14mm f 1.8 and the Samyang 14mm f2.4?

the picture at 11:08, at which f-number was it taken?

How would you compare this to the Sigma 14mm 1.8 Art?

Will you recommend this over the 15mm??

Nice clip but one thing i do not agree about the canon lens 16-35 mm III I never encounter so much vignette like you do. a little yes but really just a little. So I was little shocked that you had such dark areas on the edge. Maybe your lens is not good manufactured. I would recommend to send it in.

You not wearing the same top for the second part of the review is triggering my OCD. :-X :-)

Dustin, I am somewhat disappointed in the quality of the images, these seem to be the weakest I have seen from this lens, I placed my order after a lot of research into its rendering and decided it was fantastic, but these images from the 5D IV seem lacking in contrast, micro contrast, 3D rendering looks flat sadly. Have you used this lens on a Sony A7rm2?

So I got this lens, and I was wondering what's the middle ring on the lens ? I know one is for aperture and the other one for focal length

Hello Dustin, so I decided to return this lens after 15 days of experminetation , as a Realtor who's planning to shoot indoor, it's not good enough, the canon lense I have 17-40 is way sharper and colors are way better in low light ( both shot at same iso and aperture 4 ) but thanks for the review, you have a big fan here 😄👍🏻

This is actually a normal lens. The humans see with two eyes and the image they see is a combination that is processed by brain. That is called binocular vision and its visual horizontal field of view is around 110°. (Just check for binocular human field of view or Peripheral human vision on google or Wikipedia.) That corresponds to an ultra wide 12mm lens on a full frame camera. The single eye has a horizontal field of view around 46° (Due to the nose which obstructs) which coresponds to a normal 50mm on a full frame camera. However the humans see very sharply at a field of view around 10°. That coresponds to a 200mm lens on a full frame camera.

i think maybe i just get g master 24 & stitch panoramas for best landscaping

Is it good for Video ?

Round aperture blades??????

Do you guys know what Laowa means in Chinese? It means old frog. Lao is old, and Wa is frog.

this lens is not good for the money.