Laowa 15mm f/2 Zero-D Lens - Canon RF Lens

The Laowa 15mm f/2 Zero-D Lens is the first lens of its kind, bringing you the ability to capture images at f/2 with a 15mm focal length.

This lens is designed to be a lightweight and compact option for photographers who want to take advantage of the shallow depth of field that comes with shooting at f/2. It features three extra-low dispersion elements, two aspherical elements, and low distortion to ensure that your images are crisp and clear. The lens also has a frog eye dust & water-repellent coating, which helps protect your lens from harmful environmental factors like dust, water droplets, and dirt.

The Laowa 15mm f/2 Zero-D Lens is built for manual focus control, but it also comes with an aperture ring that can be de-clicked for smoother use or more precise setting when focusing manually. The lens has five blades for smooth bokeh.

Product Features in Detail

LAOWA 15mm f/2 Zero-D
The ultra wide, fast & compact prime for your full frame mirrorless camera.

This lens is currently the fastest in its class offering a superb optical quality for Sony, Canon and Nikon full frame mirrorless mount cameras.

It features a close-to-zero distortion with a 110° angle of view.

The ultra-fast aperture f/2 enables photographers to capture impressive astro shots very easily. The 72mm filter thread allows a quick installation of filters for landscape shooting.

This lens is going to be an everyday lens for most of us given its compact size (62mm long) and weight (～500g only).

Super Light & Compact
The Laowa 15mm f/2 Zero-D is currently the widest f/2 rectilinear lens in the market made for full frame mirrorless cameras. It is an ultra-wide & ultra-fast prime lens which covers both 35mm full-frame & APS-C sensors. Despite the extreme specifications, Venus Optics has successfully minimized the weight of the lens to around 500g (~1.1 pounds) and 8cm long. This compact and light lens comprises of 12 elements in 9 groups with 2 pcs of aspherical elements and 3 pcs of Extra-low dispersion elements. The patented optical design successfully minimizes the distortion and chromatic aberrations to its lowest but at the same time, delivers a superb optical performance from corners to corners.

72mm Filter Thread
Ultra-wide & fast lenses in the market tend to be huge and have a dome-shaped front element. It is a headache for landscape photographers who need to use filters very often. Venus Optics understand their needs and manage to design a flat front surface and include a 72mm filter thread into the lens. 72mm screw-on filters can be used and no more investment on bulky filter holder is required.

Ultra Wide & Ultra Fast
The extreme 110° angle of view and ultra-fast f/2 aperture allow photographers to create impressive astro-photography shots with ease. It also gives photographers a fast and wide-angle option for landscape photography and low-light shooting.

Close-to-Zero Distortion
The Laowa 15mm f/2 Zero-D is the second member of the Close-to-Zero distortion line-up from Venus Optics, followed the launch of 12mm f/2.8 Zero-D last year. The lens is specially designed to remove the optical distortion commonly exist in wide angle lenses at infinity focus. Any straight lines will be retained.

Focus as close as 15cm
Photographers can take advantage of the super close focusing distance (i.e. 15cm) and the f/2 aperture to create some bokeh shots and wide angle close-up shots.

Handy for videographers
The Laowa 15mm Zero-D is specially designed with an aperture switch which allows users to quickly switch between click-less and clicked aperture. This added feature will be extremely useful for videographers.