Video: Looking at the Laowa 20mm shift lens
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Video: looking at the Laowa 20mm shift lens
Keith Cooper reviews the new Laowa 20mm shift lens. The Zero-D f/4 lens offers +-11mm of shift. Canon EF/RF Nikon F/Z Sony E, L, K, Fuji G mounts (26m) Keith has been testing the lens for a while and has produced this video.
There is also a lengthy written review
This new shift lens from Laowa complements the15mm f/4.5 shift lens Keith reviewed a while ago.
The list price (US) for the 20/4 is $1299
Keith has written many articles and reviews covering the use of tilt and shift lenses.
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See the timings in the video chapter list below.
Laowa 20mm shift lens video timings
00:00 Start
00:27 Notes for viewers unfamiliar with shift lenses
00:43 Lens design and construction
02:22 The shift mechanism
02:45 Mount differences
04:50 Specifications
05:09 No electronics – fully manual
06:44 Front element and filter options
07:34 Adjustable lens hood
08:50 Flare and aberrations
10:20 Image quality
12:55 How shift works – rise and fall
15:19 The power of stitching
16:07 Dealing with parallax
17:38 The versatility of diagonal shift
20:21 Image quality falloff
21:32 Shift and horizontal perspective
23:37 Conclusions about the Laowa 20mm shift lens
24:30 Is shift only an issue – what about tilt?
25:52 Future testing
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