Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift - Nikon Z

World Widest Shift lens with a full 360° of rotation and +/-11mm of shift. The Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift features an ingenious design that incorporates both tilt and shift capabilities into a single super wide-angle lens, offering photographers a maximum image circle 65mm in diameter. This means that it can cover most medium format cameras with ease and deliver stunning landscape images at  f/4.5 across its entire focus range, making it one of the fastest ultra wide-angle lenses on the market today.

Product Features in Detail

Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift
Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift is currently the World’s Widest Shift lens for full-frame cameras and medium format cameras. The amount of shift is ±11mm for full-frame camera and ±8mm for medium format cameras. The lens is perfect for architectural and interior photography. The sky-high buildings can be captured in a corrected perspective easily.

Image quality is guaranteed with high image sharpness and nearly no distortion (Zero-D). 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift enriches the diversity of Laowa’s extensive wide-angle lens collection by giving photographers more control on the perspective in their images.

The Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift is available in Canon EF & RF, Nikon Z & F and Sony FE mount. It is compatible with Medium Format Fujifilm GFX and Hasselblad X1D cameras with a lens adapter (available separately for Fujifilm GFX). Other medium format cameras have not been tested.

World’s Widest Shift Lens
15mm f/4.5 Shift is the widest shift lens for full-frame cameras. The angle of view is 110°, and it covers a huge ⌀ 65mm image circle. The wider perspective offers a great deal of flexibility for photographers to capture architecture and interior shots when space is limited.

±11mm Shift Amount
The maximum possible shift amount of the lens is ±11mm for full-frame camera and ±8mm for medium format camera (e.g. Fujifilm GFX / Hasselblad X1D). The shift capability allows photographers to capture straight architecture with ease. 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift straightens the lines that appear to converge in the distance. Crooked images can be corrected by changing the perspective of the lens. Perspective distortion is being eliminated to create the reality-like image.

The ±11mm shift amount also allows photographers to expand the angle of view by stitching multiple images. It gives an extraordinary image perspective and rooms for special compositions.

Large Image Circle
With a huge ⌀65mm image circle, the lens not only works with the full-frame format but also covers the medium format sensors. This makes it currently the World’s Widest lens covering Fujifilm GFX sensor with no vignetting.

Zero Distortion
15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift is composed of 17 elements in 11 groups. It suppresses the distortion to nearly Zero level from corner to corner. Perfect for architecture photography as any straight lines will be retained.

High Image Quality
15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift coupled with new lens coating. A significant improvement on the chromatic aberration, flaring and ghosting.

Extremely Close Focusing Distance
15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift is an ultra-wide shift lens coupled with 20cm closest focusing distance. Macro-like photos can be created easily. The Functionality of the lens is diverse. Wide-angle macro image can be easily captured with this lens.

Stunning 10-point Sunstar
The 5-bladed aperture creates stunning 10-point sunstar rendering.

ACCESSORIES – Shift Lens Support
Shift Lens Support is specially designed for 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift.

Perfect for panorama stitching as the optic axis remains unchanged.

100mm Filter Holder
100mm filter holder is available for the Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift.