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Do you hate clear plastic wrapping?
Whether it is around celery and won’t let you unwrap it for dinner - or around a new lens in the shop and hides the goods inside - it is clearly a frustration.
Lucky I was able to pluck another Laowa lens from the Murray Street shelves to examine it - the new 10mm Zero-D f:2.8 Auto Focus FF II was playing hard-to-see and it would have been unfair to a prospective buyer to peel it just out of curoiosity.
The 12mm D-Dreamer was open, so it gets to be the star of the show today. It’s a Nikon mount in polished hard metal supporting a manual focus lens. The f:2.8 will stop down to f:22 and the lens will close in to 180 mm. It is light, but the widest f:2.8 available.
I see architecture, landscape, astronomy, and possibly video work for this lens. The makers promise zero distortion in the very name.
The intriguing thing today was the careful inscription at the front of the focusing ring: “ Entrance Pupil “. Not having seen this before on any lens I googled it and found that this indicates the nodal point of the lens if it is to be swung for a panorama shot.
Impressive use of geometry on an impressive lens.
