Laowa 15mm F4.5 Zero-D Shift Lens for Nikon Z mount
$1739.99
$1629.99
Sale ends 01-02-2025Special Order Item
Please contact us for estimated time to delivery, cancellations or returns subject to 20% restocking fee.The Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift lens from Venus Optics is a specialized and high-quality lens designed for architecture and interior photography. It offers a unique combination of features that make it well-suited for capturing precise and distortion-free images in challenging shooting scenarios.
Wide Field of View and Shift Capability: The lens features an exceptionally wide 110 degree angle of view, allowing you to capture expansive scenes. The +/- 11mm shift range is a crucial feature for architectural photography, as it enables you to correct converging lines and keystone distortion. This shift control can be rotated 360 degrees, making it versatile for both horizontal and vertical compositions.
Zero-D Distortion: As part of the Zero-D lens series, this lens is designed to minimize distortion, ensuring that straight lines remain straight even when shifting. This is particularly important in architectural photography, where distortion correction is essential for accurate representation of buildings and structures.
Optical Design: The lens incorporates two aspherical elements and three extra-low dispersion elements, which work together to reduce spherical and chromatic aberrations. This optical design contributes to high levels of sharpness, clarity, and color accuracy in your images.
Anti-Reflective Coating: An anti-reflective coating helps control flare and ghosting, enhancing contrast and color rendering even in challenging lighting conditions.
Close Focusing Distance: With a manual focus design, the lens allows you to focus on subjects as close as 7.9 inches away. This is particularly useful for creative compositions and capturing fine details.
Sun Stars: The lens features a five-blade diaphragm that can produce distinct 10-point sun stars, adding a creative element to your images when shooting with strong point light sources.
In summary, the Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift lens is a specialized tool designed to provide precise perspective control, distortion-free images, and exceptional optical quality for architecture and interior photography. Its shift capability, optical design, and close focusing distance make it a versatile choice for photographers looking to capture stunning and accurate representations of built environments.
- Designed for full-frame format cameras
- Aperture range: f/4.5 to f/22
- Offers +/- 11mm of shift and 360 degree rotation for creative composition
- Includes two aspherical elements and three extra-low dispersion elements for improved image quality
- Features an anti-reflection coating to reduce ghosting and flare
- Provides a 65mm-diameter image circle for coverage on larger sensors
- Manual focus design with a minimum focus distance of 7.9 inches
- Equipped with a 5-blade diaphragm for creative depth of field effects.
- Venus Optics Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift Lens
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