The good news first: at 0° and 90° rotation I see no additional vignetting. Is there any additional vignetting when using filters? The holder does ship with a 150×100 mm frame, but as I am most interested in using a polarizer with this lens I bought a 100×100 mm frame from Amazon this time. To use your existing filters with this holder you need to buy a magnetic frame for it, they come in 150×100 mm (Grad) and 100×100 mm (Polarizer/ND). These are really great improvements over the 10-18mm’s filter holder, believe me. Furthermore it features a small screw to lock the square filters in place. This time the holder is a single piece and you do not need to remove the lens from the camera to attach it. I will spare you some of the details about this system, you can find it discussed in greater detail in my Laowa 10-18mm review. So we again have one of these magnetic filter holders. In collaboration with H&Y Laowa also offers a 100mm square filter holder for this 9mm lens, as was already the case with the Laowa 10-18mm 4.5-5.6. 100mm Filter Holder 100mm filter holder attached to the 9mm 5.6 There are also holes included to add 6-bit coding so you can disguise the Laowa 9mm 5.6 as a Leica lens when used on one of the later Leica M-mount cameras. The M-mount version of this lens is rangefinder coupled between 0.7 m and infinity and there even is a click stop at 0.7 m, so you can feel if you leave that range without taking your eye of the rangefinder (not that the rangefinder is particularly useful when using a 9 mm lens). M-mount exclusive Rangefinder coupling and 0.7 m click stop The E-mount version does not feature electronic contacts to communicate with your camera. Unlike the M-mount version the E-mount version features a small focus tab, which is kinda interesting, as these are probably more popular among Leica users than Sony users. E-mount exclusive Focus tab on the E-mount version There is no filter thread but a 100mm filter holder is available directly from Laowa, more on that at the end of this chapter. This won’t bother the most of you, but it kinda spoils the whole picture for me.
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I was a bit surprised that – despite incorporating a very complex floating elements design – the click stops are not equidistant. The aperture ring has full-stop click stops and travels ~80° from f/5.6 to f/22. The focus ring has perfect resistance and travels roughly 100° from the minimum focus distance (0.12 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 new laser engraved Laowa logo on the non removable hood looks pretty cool, too. The Laowa lenses always gave the impression of high build quality but I have the feeling they are still trying to improve. You can already order the lens directly from the manufacturer’s homepage, B&H or / for $899 (M-mount) and $799 (E/Z/L-mount) (affiliate links)Īt the wide end a millimeter makes a big difference, so this Laowa 9mm 5.6 is noticeably wider than the Voigtlander 10mm 5.6, more than the numbers may suggest. Number of Aperture Blades: 5 (straight)īecause of the different flange focal distance of Leica M cameras the M-mount version is a bit shorter (66 mm) and also a bit lighter (350g) the other specs are the same.Filter Diameter: – (100 mm holder will be available).These are the specs of the E-mount version:
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I had a look at the E-mount and M-mount versions. This is a one of a kind lens, there has not been a 9mm lens before! So far it comes for Sony E-mount, Leica-M mount, L-mount and Nikon Z. After finishing the review I bought a Leica-M sample and have been using it since.
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The Laowa 9mm 5.6 FF-RL was kindly provided free of charge by Venus Optics / Laowa for reviewing purpose for a few weeks. infinity (42mp Sony A7rII, M-mount version).infinity (42mp Sony A7rII, E-mount version).