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📷 Venus Laowa 4mm f/2.8 Circular Fisheye Lens for Micro Four Thirds (MFT) Mount Review

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Revainrating 4.5 out of 5  
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4.5
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Details

BrandLAOWA
Lens TypeFisheye
Compatible MountingsMFT / Fuji X / Sony E / Canon M
Camera Lens Description8
Maximum Focal Length4

Description of 📷 Venus Laowa 4mm f/2.8 Circular Fisheye Lens for Micro Four Thirds (MFT) Mount

Ultra wide-angle 4mm f/2.8 prime is designed for Micro Four Thirds mirrorless cameras and provides an 8mm equivalent focal length. Bright f/2.8 maximum aperture is well-suited to working in low and difficult lighting conditions. Exceptionally wide 210° angle of view along with a circular fisheye design produces a highly distorted image for creative applications as well as the potential to stitch images together for full 360° panoramas. Manual focus design offers a minimum focusing distance of 3.1". Lightweight and small design makes this lens suitable for use on drones as well as being ideal for VR imaging, action sports filming, or virtual tours.

Reviews

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Revainrating 4 out of 5

The earth and everything on it is round!

What fun! You need to hold it at arm's length if you don't want your toes in the frame, make sure the fingers holding the camera don't get in with it, you need to use it with a body without bulging grips, but then it all hangs off you! Also wide open sharp, very forgiving focus and depth of field and looks/feels solidly built. I have taken hundreds of pictures at Machu Picchu with an Olympus Pen-F and preferred it to my more expensive Oly em1 mk2/12-100 f4 touring rig and I will never look at…

Pros
  • A maximum aperture of f/2.8 is well suited for working in low and difficult light conditions.
Cons
  • Hard to remember but it was

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Small Miracle Lenses

Very small lens, no more than two inches, all-metal construction including lens cap. 4mm makes it the smallest wide-angle lens on the market. At €200 that's no problem. Image distortion looks great, still very sharp. Although this lens is fully manual, it is easy to use. Simply set the camera to M for manual control, set the aperture, focus and shoot. It will take a little longer, but it's worth it. The image has become sharp, the degree of distortion depends on the distance from the lens. You…

Pros
  • A 4mm f/2.8 ultra-wide-angle prime lens designed for Micro Four Thirds mirrorless cameras, offering an 8mm equivalent focal length.
Cons
  • Appearance

Revainrating 5 out of 5

I'm glad there are Micro Four Thirds options for the round fisheye lens

I've sparked interest in the circular fisheye for 8mm Russian stock photos that I used on a full frame Nikon DSLR. even got a great photo out of it (round fisheye for artistic photos gives you things you don't get any other way, but it doesn't give you *very often*, at least not for me). I suppose it's more for people who do VR 360 photos and stuff like that, but that's not my interest, I don't think it makes sense at all. It's actually WIDE ANGLE as 8mm on my 35mm, 210 degrees they say rather…

Pros
  • . The lightweight and compact design makes this lens suitable for drone use and also ideal for VR imaging, sports photography or virtual tours.
Cons
  • Speed

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Very good value for money

I would call this Laowa lens a "real" fisheye lens. At just 4mm, the focal length is so short that you get an (almost) full circle with only a tiny part cropped at the top and bottom. And of course the coverage, a ridiculous 220 degrees, is the same in all directions because it's a circle. Round images aren't to everyone's liking, but I prefer a round fisheye over a full frame because you've got straight lines that curve unnaturally anyway, and it looks weird in a rectangle. The 220-degree…

Pros
  • An exceptionally wide 210° field of view combined with a circular fisheye design produces a highly distorted image for creative purposes as well as the ability to blend images for full 360° panoramas.
Cons
  • boring packaging