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I’d like to see weather sealing, but that might be quibbling. Outside of my major criticism of the focus travel, this is a very nicely executed lens with a build quality that punches way over its price point of $499 USD. The lens in the RF mount is 72mm in diameter x 125 mm in length (2.83 x 4.92″). I don’t love the lens profile, which is very long and skinny, and made more so by the extra length in the barrel to accommodate the different flange distance of mirrorless (the optics need to be moved a little further from the sensor).
They’ve done a good job of balancing the weight, however, as the lens weighs in at a moderate 1.4 lb (638g) despite the heavy grade construction. That trend continues here, with the lens made entirely of metal and glass.
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Laowa lenses have always been nicely made with full metal construction. *The tests and the photos shown in this review have been taken on my 45 MP Canon EOS R5. As always, this is a completely independent review.
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They have a great price on the lens, and using the code AMPLIS52018DA will give you an additional 5% off. I purchased a retail copy of this lens from Amplis Foto in Canada (the Canadian Laowa distributor) for this review. That’s a winning combination, and, frankly, I’ve tested a dozen macro lenses since and still haven’t seen one with more “pop” to images than this one…so this remains a very interesting lens on mirrorless cameras like Canon RF, Sony FE, or Nikon Z.įollow Me Patreon | My Newsletter | Instagram | Facebook | DA Merchandise | Flickr | 500px Still, we’ve got an amazing apochromatic lens optically with a mostly excellent build, 2x magnification, and a price tag of around $500 USD.
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Essentially all of their subsequent lenses (to my knowledge) have continued to ship without any electronics and a more traditional manual aperture ring…and that’s the case with the Laowa RF100M as well.
I thought at the time that this was beginning of a new phase for Laowa, but that hasn’t proved the case. What is “auto aperture”? It is an electromagnetic auto aperture iris and electronic contacts (full EXIF information is communicated to camera). The only drawback to moving to an RF mount lens is the fact that the auto aperture is (for some reason) only for the Canon EF mount. That’s obviously incredibly useful, and the Apochromatic design helps assure that images have unbelievably low levels of chromatic aberrations and incredibly high clarity and contrast.
Having a stabilized macro lens only adds versatility to this lens, and the Laowa RF100M has always been unusually sharp even for a macro lens. Finally, the addition of IBIS (In Body Image Stabilization) means even a manual everything lens like this gets decent stabilization (I manually input the focal length to get the best performance). The crisp LCD screen means that high resolution, high contrast images like this lens can produce really just pop off the screen, which made my shooting time out in the field feel very rewarding. I rarely felt like I had to magnify the image at close to medium focus distances, which meant that the focus process was very organic and quick.
A really sharp lens like the Laowa means that focus overlays (I use focus peaking in red and set on the “high” level”) show up very crisply in the high resolution viewfinder, and I found that focusing in most situations (more on that in a moment) was really, really easy. There are a variety of reasons, but the first thing that stands out to me is the great viewfinder and LCD screen on the R5 that makes using manual focus lenses so much more fun. So, let me start by saying that I have for the most part really, really enjoyed using the Laowa RF100M (as I’ll call it for brevity in this review) on my Canon EOS R5.
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I’m not here to completely redo that review, but rather to update my original findings with some specific observations on using the lens on mirrorless as opposed to the original DSLR mounts that it was available for.
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