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Best prime for product photography

Started Aug 25, 2020 | Questions thread
Rightsaidfred
Rightsaidfred Senior Member • Posts: 2,179
Re: Best prime for product photography // Laowa 65 mm

PedroM wrote:

Rightsaidfred wrote:

What sort of products?

Mostly watches.

In this case, I definitely recommend a macro lens.

Depending on the answer, you may want to consider the Laowa 65 mm f/2.8.

I am very happy with it (but I use it mostly for macro).

You'll find a lot of opinions about this lens here in the forum.

I wasn’t aware of this lens existence! Seems like a good candidate for my use case.

Thanks for the info!

You're welcome.

Regards,

Pedro

Pedro

You realized the Laowa 65 mm is a manual lens?

This means, there is no AF, no auto aperture, no EXIF transfer.

All that is not a problem, you just need to be aware of it.

It also means you cannot do AF stacking with it - but the X-T10 lacks this function anyway.

Of course, with a manual lens, you can do manual focus stacking with a rail. I do that oftentimes with my X-T20. With respect to the narrow DoF, stacking may be a good idea in your case.

The optical performance of the Laowa 65 mm is excellent IMO.

BR,

Martin

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