Taking my Laowa 7.5mm f/2 to Northern Norway and Svalbard

So I was just back from a trip to Northern Norway(Honningsvag, Hammerfest, Tromso) areas as well as Svalbard(Longyearbyen) and instead of bringing either of my zoom wide angle lenses(Pan 7-14 f/4 and Oly 9-18), I decided to just bring the Laowa and fully use it as my primary and only wide angle lens for the trip.

I wrote a quick review here if anyone is interested to read my elaborated explanations:

http://bejophotographyblog.blogspot.co.id/2017/08/using-laowa-75mm-f20-mft-on-trip-to.html

Quick summary of my experience using the Laowa lens:

Pros:

Sharp, small, lightweight, large aperture is very handy in some situations, takes filter in front of the lens, good micro-contrast, no purple fringing CA, top performance at f/4, matches my good old GX7 very well, negligible distortion, punchy overall IQ and color.

Cons:

Doesn't really focus to infinity(especially noticeable at f/2 and a little bit at f/2.8), little flare issues when shooting to strong light source(but better than my Pan 7-14mm f/4), a hint of vignetting at larger apertures.

At this period of the year, Northern Norway and Svalbard don't really have sunset and the Midnight Sun phenomenon happens at those regions, so I didn't get a chance to test shooting low light landscape or astrophotography at all. Nevertheless, allow me to share some photos taken with the GX7+ Lao 7.5 f/2 combo. Enjoy!

Taken on a cruise ship that goes from Longyearbyen to Pyramiden via glacier.

Honningsvag. The sky was unfortunately very dull that day.

Fisherman Village near Honningsvag, again the sky was uninspiring, but I didn't stay long so I just had to grab the image as best as I could.

Hammerfest Church

Somewhere in Hammerfest.

Somewhere in between Honningsvag and Hammerfest.

Hammerfest.

That's me, with the city of Tromso behind me. I asked someone on camera right to hold a speedlight to side-light me, so I got that cross lighting thingy going on on my face with the sun on the left.

Longyearbyen on a sunny day. The sun never sets during summer, hence the midnight sun phenomenon.

Longyearbyen. That's the sun in the frame, and you can see the flare on the lower edge of the frame.

Tromso. See the flares on the sun itself and on the lower right corner of the frame.

Another picture with sun in it. See the flare on the bottom edge of the frame. I didn't clone/heal the flare, so there's that.

Again another picture with the sun in it. There should've been flare on the lower edge of the frame, but I cropped the picture to 7:3, so now you don't see it.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures. They were all RAWs processed in Lightroom. Some might had a bit of Photoshop treatment(high pass filter sharpening mostly). I hope you find this post to be useful.