I recommend ordering the lens from Venus Optics website - free and fast worldwide shipping www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-15mm-f/ref/708/ The camera: amzn.to/2nR9Q9Q - Rest of the stuff in description ^

thank you for your commitment in posting videos of your great photos. i am learning a lot and I am sure a lot of other newbies too.

those last two shots - wow - you saved the best to the end

I just picked mine up yesterday, so I especially enjoyed your review. Will be fun to shoot with!

Love using this lens. Your composition, both still and video, are the among the best I've seen done with this lens.

Tack så mycket - väldigt bra och informativ video :) var jättenyfiken på den :)

Lovely photos in this video!

Excellent review...thank you!

these are really some amazing pictures! nice and up close, what an interesting lens thanks for sharing your thoughts with us loved watching this

Super helpful. Thanks!

Loved the ant crawling onto the lens. Looks like a fun lens. Only just started my macro stuff as an in-between landscape trips. Maybe one day I'll treat myself to this. Great video

Awesome lens and review. Thx!

Amazing video!

cool! I've been wanting to try this lens. :)

Thanks for the discovering Micael, I really really like the perspective and the bokeh. Oh, btw, steal a baby to do some photos was a good idea too, hahaha ;P

I bought one of these with a Canon mount, took the slider off and CNC'd a PL mount for it. Great fun lens to have in the kit.

Thank you !

Great video.

Yesterday I orderd this lens. Since it came on the market I want to have it

Thank you

A very good lens ! Good for street photography....because it is manual, I just have to click the bouton when the sujet is at the good distance...like in the old day

After seeing your photos it seems like this lens actually works quite well. Of course you don't get the highest image quality but that's why it is not a $1000+ lens. I say this because I saw a review by a guy saying it sucks and it's not worthy, but I think he just didn't know how to get the most out of it. Thanks for your great work man, I really enjoy your videos and Swedish accent lol

Great video 👍 it very useful. I m looking a good macro lens. I can’t decide between laowa 100mm 2x and this lens. But I prefer the 100mm I guess 😆 Anyway I need a flash and diffusion as well. Please recommend? I have Nikon D90 and lens kit 15-108mm f3.5-5.6.

Excellent photos!!! I dream of that lens... but don't even have a full-frame camera yet...

Hi ,😉 Thank you for tutorial ..how is it for video .. bib y recomend for it ?? Thnx bro 👌

Thank you.

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What is that diffuser I see you using at 5:47; Is it something you adapted or purchased?

Just a little warning. I had this Laowa for a while now, recently I've noticed significant wobble. On the lens barrel, just past shift mechanism there is four tiny screws. Tighten them up if your copy developes same movement on the lens body.

If I'm not a specs chaser but want practical and fun experience and going to shoot manual lenses in mind like Laowa 15mm macro, TTArtisan 50mm Tilt and TTArtisan 100mm 2X Macro, would you suggest me to get Sony A7RV for the 4 ways screen which can be use for videos sometime or Nikon ZF for the full manual dials experiences? Which one has the easiest reliable set it once and forget profiles setting for each lens to produce SOOC real life color? I shoot video mainly ith Panasonic HC-X1500 camcorder but when I do specialised videos I will use the camera as well. I hope there will be a true rangefinder full frame hybrid camera with EVF when you need it plus come with the A7RV 4 ways screen!

Laowa mark this lense as being for astrophotography as well, have you tried using it for that if so how did it perform?

Very interesting video. I wonder what effect you'd get by shooting with extension tubes attached.

How do you work out the shutter speed

Great video, I want that setup for my Sony A7RII, How did you adapt the flash from eos to sony's hot shoe?

Thanks for the nice video. The perspective is indeed very unique. While watching it, I was wondering if you could replicate the results with the Canon EF-S 10-18mm and a 12mm extension tube, which should give you 1:1 magnification in theory. But maybe the focus point would lay inside the lens then. I will try it out tomorrow.

Kinda mix of macro and landscape

Get you a 77mm b+w clear filter

Nice Review. Do you test Magnification Rings on this lens to get more macro?

Hello Micael! In one of your recent videos you said you were considering buying this lens, so I went back to watch your review. I have not seen all of your videos (recent subscriber), but something I enjoyed a lot in this video was the footage "through the lens" of you lining up your macro shots etc. I was heavily into high magnification macro in 2013, and built a tabletop rig with microscope objectives etc. to do focus stacks of 100+ images at 10x magnifications. Recently I have gotten back into macro, but focussing mainly on insect videos! I was wondering if you have experimented with insect macro video and if so why you decided to not to pursue it more actively? I am having a hard time finding examples of of peoples setups for continuous lighting and diffusion for mobile/handheld video. Based on your reviews I have recently acquired the Laowa 65mm F2.8 for fuji x-mount, but won't get to use it until my birthday in a couple weeks. Keep up the great work! Discovering your account has been great inspiration and motivation for me!

Is it good to use it on MFT Camera !?

Is this available for M 4/3 cameras?

I've been searching for a wide angle macro lens for mft but haven't been able to find any. Are there any that you know of or would recommend please?

Nice video, but I would have liked to have seen the aperture value alongside the other camera settings listed below the still photos you showed in this video

hey micael, there is no option of this lense for fujifilm x mount. can i just use an adapter for canon ef to fujifilm x mount for example; or does it have any disadvantages, cause its a macro lens? idk

Can you provide an updated link to the bracket you had your flash on? The link above no longer works. I have been looking at this lens for quite a while, and may take the leap to get it. Thank you for your macro videos!

have you used the 15mm f/2 zero d lens?

I hate Stink did you kill it

Fitt Skola.....hahahaha

You can get SAME lens (without name LAOWA, without shift) for ONE THIRD of price, also 15mm/4, 12 elements in 9 groups, filter 77mm etc. --- Search aliexpress.com "lens 15mm 4 macro"--- Laowa price is >600€ in EU, in China 440€, "not Laowa" is less than 200€

Tbh n one that pictures look good. They have too much unsharpness. I see that all the time. Makcro shots which have like 10% sharp. and claiming this a good shot. No its not. Good shots are when the whole insect is clear.