Unsurprisingly the vignetting is highest at the wide end and improves towards the long end. Vignetting light falloffīecause of the extremely wide angle of view our method of deriving the vignetting figures struggles a bit, this is also the reason for the less smooth graphs in this chapter. The 12-24mm 5.6 is similarly sized as the Laowa 15mm 2.0, but a little bit longer. As the ring is very small I see little reason to remove it from the lens. In addition to that there is a small filter ring in the package which attaches via a bayonet and gives the lens a normal 77mm filter thread. Laowa 12-24mm 5.6 with filter ring detached The Laowa 12-24mm 5.6 does feature a tiny built in lens hood which also makes sure the front element doesn’t touch the surface when putting the lens down on a flat surface. The zoom ring rotates ~90°, does not feature any click stops and has markings for every even numbered focal length. If you read my previous reviews of Laowa lenses you may remember I wasn’t too happy about the non-equidistant click stops, so I am happy to report here they are equidistant (again). The aperture ring has full-stop click stops and travels ~30° from f/5.6 to f/22. The focus ring has very nice albeit not perfectly even resistance and travels roughly 100° from the minimum focus distance (0.15 m) to infinity. The lens looks and feels like it is an all metal construction, all the markings are engravend and filled with paint and the filter ring also features a laser engraved Laowa logo. Handling / Build Quality Laowa 12-24mm 5.6 I will add more affiliate links as they become available. The lens can already be preordered at the manufacturer’s homepage for $649 (E/RF/Z) to 699$ (M-mount) (affiliate link)
Weight: 520g (without caps, with filter ring).
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The Laowa 12-24mm 5.6 C-Dreamer was kindly provided free of charge by Venus Optics / Laowa for reviewing purpose for a few weeks.
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