I might consider this over their 9mm f/5.6 that I currently own. There are three reasons for that; one can use focus bracketing with it since it has autofocus, it's 2 stops faster, and it takes circular filters. Although it's rarely needed to focus stack such a wide lens due to its deep depth of field, it comes in handy for some close-up landscape images.
10mm is fine for me; I went for the Laowa 9mm f/5.6 over the Voigtländer 10mm f/5.6, as it's optically superior. I just purchased 3 GM zooms; 12-24, 24-70 II and 70-200 II, but I might go back to 16-35 G or 17-50 and 50-400, and then pair them with this 10 AF. The purchase of the f/2.8 zooms was more GAS, and I rather just bring 2 lenses for landscape, and occasionally bring the 10mm when needed. This kit will both be cheaper and more versatile for my use.
I'm glad that Laowa is producing autofocus lenses. I hope that they will put autofocus in their macro lenses as well. It would be lovely to have a 2x macro lens with autofocus, so that it can be used with focus bracketing. Currently, it's only possible to 1x on Sony FE, and I don't want to add another system just for some occasional macro. Olympus got some tempting options, though.
Dec 30, 2023 at 06:20 AM
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