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Traveling with one lens - the Laowa 9 mm

Started 5 months ago | Photos thread
Larry Rexley Senior Member • Posts: 1,238
First test shots
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My copy of the Laowa 9mm f2.8 lens arrived today. Weather was good and skies had some nice clouds, so I did some test shots with it, and took it on my usual bike ride to shoot some trains around Tampa.

The first two images are taken with my full-spectrum Canon M200. I managed to get images with a 67mm BG3 (dual-band blue and IR) and a 77mm Red R25A filter with almost no filter vignetting in the corners (with step-up rings). The lens has a mild infrared hot spot in the center, but I was able to correct it with a DxO control point, reducing the exposure and bumping up contrast, saturation, and microcontrast for a uniform image. Looks like the lens is usable for IR, and in the IR it's sharp enough to get decent images! Much sharper in IR than the EF-M 15-45 or EF-M 11-22, which both have fuzzy IR corners.

The lens needed about +40 to +50 vignetting correction in DxO which is a lot, but DxO's deep prime de-noise eliminated additional noise caused by pushing the corners 2 EV, even at the higher 1600 and 3200 ISO shots.

My lens focuses at infinity 'past' the infinity mark --- at infinity focus, the center of the infinity marking is exactly on the 'f2.8' marking on the lens to the left of the center 'focus' marking.

Full-spectrum M200, Laowa 9mm f2.8, 67mm BG3 dual-band filter (blue-violet & IR>700nm) f5.6, 1/640s, ISO 100, uncropped. Violet-tinged sky was hue-shifted more to the blue

Full-spectrum M200, Laowa 9mm f2.8, Vivitar 77mm R25A filter, f8, 1/100s, ISO 100, uncropped, 180-degree hue shift in DxO HSL settings (like a Red-Blue channel swap)

Canon M6ii, Laowa 9mm f2.8, f5.6, 1/400s, ISO 160, uncropped

Canon M6ii, Laowa 9mm f2.8, f5.6, 1/400s, ISO 125, cropped

Canon M6ii, Laowa 9mm f2.8, f5.6, 1/160s, ISO 640, cropped

Canon M6ii, Laowa 9mm f2.8, f5.6, 1/250s, ISO 500, uncropped

Canon M6ii, Laowa 9mm f2.8, f5.6, 1/800s, ISO 1600, cropped

Canon M6ii, Laowa 9mm f2.8, f5.6, 1/800s, ISO 3200, cropped

Canon M6ii, Laowa 9mm f2.8, f5.6, 1/100s, ISO 250, uncropped

Canon M6ii, Laowa 9mm f2.8, f2.8, 1/100s, ISO 3200, cropped vertically: full pixel resolution

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