LAOWA 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 FE Zoom Lens for Sony E

Introduction

The Laowa 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 Zoom Lens – Sony FE is a full frame compatible ultra wide angle zoom lens for Sony E / FE mount (full frame Sony E). Currently it is the Worlds Widest Ultra-Wide Angle FE zoom lens, and offers an impressive angle of view of 102 – 130 degrees. The Laowa 10-18mm is a full manual lens, (including manual focus) with no electronic connections. It can also be used on Sony’s smaller APS-C sized sensors cameras, still giving a wide focal length of 15-27mm equivalent.

Compact & relatively lightweight at 496g, (particularly when compared to other lenses in its class i.e. the Sony 12-24mm) makes the Laowa a great travel friendly lens for Full frame Sony shooters. The Laowa offers a super wide perspective,for producing very wide and open perspective whilst delivering great sharpness for a wide angle zoom lens. Lens design is 14 elements in 10 groups with 2 Aspherical elements and an Extra Low Dispersion element to provide the maximum optical performance throughout the zoom range.

Due to the compact design, the Laowa 10-18mm offers versatile options for filters users which will be a welcome relief for many landscape photographers. Filter options include a rear 37mm slot for UV / ND filters, or optional filter holder for 100mm wide filters (such as Gradient /ND Grads, or other 100mm filters).

As well as being a very capable performer, the lens has a straight 5 bladed aperture, carefully chosen to offer a pleasant 10-points sunstars rendering, making it an excellent tool for nightscape photography. Short focusing distance as close as 15cm (which is about the closest in its class) for some mini-macro shooting possibilities

Easy conversion between photo and video mode with a selectable Click to clickless aperture design makes the lens appealing to photographers and videographers alike. The Click / clickless aperture can be toggled by the switch on the lens barrel which allows users to quickly switch between click-less and clicked aperture.