Venus to launch the fastest distortion free FF lens of the world (for both A and E-mount)

image sample shot on the new Laowa 12mm lens

First an important personal note: Due to personal matters I was offline for 24 hours. So I missed to update my yesterdays rumor with the news discovered by our readers. So if you got the feeling I don’t wanted to update the post know that I simply was offline due an unexpected private urgency

New Laowa 12mm f/2.8 A and E-mount Full Frame lens is coming

Our reader Mistral got the full news about the lens:
This is a “distrotion free 12mm f/2.8” Full Frame lens. It will be available for in both Sony A and E mounts. The main specifications of the prototype from Venus Optics are the following:

Image circle: 24×36
Field of view: 121.96°
Optical formula: 16 elements, including 2 aspherical elements and 3 elements made of glass with anomalous dispersion, in 10 groups
Number of aperture blades : 7
Aperture range: f/2.8 – f/22
Manual focus
Minimum focusing distance: 0.18m
Maximum magnification: 0.2x
Maximum diameter: 74.8mm
Length: 82.2mm
Weight: circa 570g.

On Valentine’s Day, symbolically, Venus Optics published a batch of 16 pictures, taken with a Laowa Zero-D 12mm f/2.8 mounted on a Sony Alpha 7R camera, on the Chinese forum Xitek: http://forum.xitek.com/thread-1546399-1-1-1.html

These pictures can be downloaded in full 7,360 x 4,912 resolution either as an archive from a file server in China: https://yunpan.cn/OcxFvqkZuapr7H   password: fba4

or from the following Flickr album: https://flic.kr/s/aHsktT3YMW

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Thanks again Mistral!