Venus Optics has announced an unusual lens, the Laowa CF 12-24mm f/5.6 Zoom Shift. It is a tilt-shift lens designed for APS-C cameras.
After a series of teasers on Chinese social media, Venus Optics has officially revealed its new Laowa CF 12-24mm f/5.6 Zoom Shift lens designed primarily for APS-C mirrorless cameras.
Unlike all the major tilt-shift lenses for DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, the new Laowa CF 12-24mm f/5.6 Zoom Shift can change its focal length. With the APS-C crop factor, the new ultra-wide zoom is equivalent to an 18-36mm lens on a full-frame camera, although it is more like 19-38mm on a Canon APS-C camera. The lens can tilt +/- seven millimeters when used on an APS-C camera. It is fully manual like other tilt-shift lenses .
The lens includes 15 elements arranged across 11 groups, including a pair of aspherical and three ED lenses. It has a nine-bladed aperture diaphragm with an aperture range of f/5.6 to f/22. The manual focus lens can focus as closely as 0.15 meters , resulting in a maximum magnification ratio of 0.4x.So far, the lens has been discussed within the context of APS-C cameras, but it appears to have a full-frame image circle.
It seems that because the Laowa 12-24mm f/5.6 C-Dreamer for full-frame cameras can cover an APS-C sensor and then some, Venus Optics has found a way to shift relevant optics around inside while still covering a sub-full-frame image sensor. It’s an interesting way to repurpose an existing lens formula. And, of course, clever engineering was also involved in designing the lens barrel for tilt-shift functionality.
As for what the Zoom Shift lens promises, the primary reason to use a tilt-shift lens is to keep vertical lines straight, even when shooting at an angle. For example, consider photographing buildings. When the photographer must tilt their camera up, it means that the focal plane is no longer parallel to the building, and it will appear distorted. The photographer can eliminate this perspective distortion by shifting a lens up .Pricing is not yet available for North America.
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