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EPHOTOZINE using my Lens review.

Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
edited March 5, 2015 in Holy Macro
Josh Waller from the EPZ website contacted me about running a review of the new Venus lens.

Front page news for a while.

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/venus-laowa-60mm-f-2-8-2-1-macro-lens-user-review-27046


Paul.


Link to my personal website: http://www.pauliddon.co.uk





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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited February 26, 2015
    Paul Iddon wrote: »
    Josh Waller from the EPZ website contacted me about running a review of the new Venus lens.

    Front page news for a while.

    http://www.ephotozine.com/article/venus-laowa-60mm-f-2-8-2-1-macro-lens-user-review-27046


    Paul.


    Paul,

    Well done.

    Your drain fly image, compared with my best efforts yesterday with my setup at f16, has convinced me that the lens is essential.

    Harold
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    Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited February 26, 2015
    Thank you Harold - selective post processing also helps of course - as with all digital images some work is always required to an extent in most cases.


    Paul.


    Link to my personal website: http://www.pauliddon.co.uk





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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2015
    Paul,

    As the lens is not recessed at all at x2, in daylight there is potential for flare, if shooting towards strong light. Have you looked at this?

    There seems to have been little mention, in the few reviews that, unlike the MPE-65, this lens can be used on bodies with built-in IS.

    Harold
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    Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2015
    e6filmuser wrote: »
    Paul,

    As the lens is not recessed at all at x2, in daylight there is potential for flare, if shooting towards strong light. Have you looked at this?

    There seems to have been little mention, in the few reviews that, unlike the MPE-65, this lens can be used on bodies with built-in IS.

    Harold

    There's been precious little sunlight to assess flare control, but as the weather changes, it's something I'll try and check out.

    On cameras with IS sensors, I assume the IS would work as with any other lens (Sony, Panasonic etc).


    Paul.


    Link to my personal website: http://www.pauliddon.co.uk





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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2015
    Paul Iddon wrote: »
    On cameras with IS sensors, I assume the IS would work as with any other lens (Sony, Panasonic etc).


    Paul.

    Yes, but affordability seems to get the emphasis, forgetting that, if were given a freebie MPE, we m4/3 users would have no way of using it.

    Harold
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    Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2015
    No others can use it except Canon, never mind 4/3 users. Even cropped and FF users on Nikon and Pentax etc can't - Canon have a an exclusive lens which at the moment is a world beater. As you say 4/3 haven't one for their market - either the MPE or the Venus.

    Paul.


    Link to my personal website: http://www.pauliddon.co.uk





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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2015
    Paul Iddon wrote: »
    No others can use it except Canon, never mind 4/3 users. Even cropped and FF users on Nikon and Pentax etc can't - Canon have a an exclusive lens which at the moment is a world beater. As you say 4/3 haven't one for their market - either the MPE or the Venus.

    Paul.

    Why wold m4/3 users not be able to use the Venus? It is available with m4/3 adapter.

    Harold
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    Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2015
    e6filmuser wrote: »
    Why wold m4/3 users not be able to use the Venus? It is available with m4/3 adapter.

    Harold


    My error. I even mentioned it in the review headscratch.gifthumb.gif

    Paul.


    Link to my personal website: http://www.pauliddon.co.uk





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