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The Laowa 8-15mm f/2.8 FF Zoom Fisheye, a one-of-a-kind addition to Laowa’s innovative lens lineup. Designed for photographers and content creators seeking bold, creative perspectives, this lens delivers a dual fisheye effect with a versatile zoom range and an ultra-fast constant f/2.8 aperture.
Compatible with full-frame cameras, this lens offers unparalleled flexibility for capturing expansive landscapes, compact cities, action sports, and 360° panoramas.
Dual Fisheye Effect
The Laowa 8-15mm f/2.8 FF Zoom Fisheye Lens delivers a versatile dual fisheye effect, seamlessly transitioning between two distinct visual styles on full-frame cameras. At the 8mm end, the lens produces a circular fisheye effect, capturing a 180° field of view.
At the 15mm end, it transitions to a full-frame rectangular fisheye effect, filling the entire sensor with the characteristic fisheye distortion. The zoom capability allows creators to switch between these effects without changing lenses, enhancing flexibility for photography and videography applications.
Max. 180° circular fisheye
The Laowa 8-15mm f/2.8 FF Zoom Fisheye Lens offers an extra-wide view, delivering a sweeping 180° angle of view at its 8mm focal length on full-frame cameras. This expansive perspective captures vast scenes in a single frame, producing a dramatic circular fisheye effect with pronounced curvature, ideal for creative effects, astrophotography, and 360° panoramas.
Diagonal fisheye
As the lens zooms to 15mm, the angle of view narrows slightly, filling the full-frame sensor with a diagonal fisheye image that retains a wide, distorted perspective. Ideal for immersive landscapes, astrophotography,
Constant Fast Aperture
The Laowa 8-15mm f/2.8 FF Zoom Fisheye Lens boasts a constant T2.9 aperture throughout its zoom range, ensuring consistent exposure and depth of field control. This fast aperture excels in low-light situations, delivering outstanding performance for nighttime shoots or dimly lit environments, while also providing beautiful bokeh for creative flexibility in crafting immersive fisheye visuals.
Close Focusing Distance
The Laowa 8-15mm f/2.8 FF Zoom Fisheye Lens features a minimum focusing distance of 16cm (6.3”), enabling photographers and videographers to capture subjects at close range with striking visual impact.
This close focusing capability enhances the lens’s fisheye distortion, delivering an exaggerated point of view (POV). Additionally, the close focus mimics a bugeye effect, creating a playful, almost cartoonish distortion where subjects appear disproportionately large, adding a unique and bold aesthetic to images and videos.
Full Frame Coverage
The Laowa 8-15mm f/2.8 FF Zoom Fisheye Lens offers full-frame coverage, unlocking the full potential of high-resolution cameras. It delivers a true 180° circular fisheye effect at 8mm and a rectangular fisheye at 15mm, ensuring edge-to-edge clarity and maximum angle of view without cropping.
The Laowa 8-15mm f/2.8 FF Zoom Fisheye Lens is remarkably compact. This portable design makes it one of the smallest and lightest full-frame fisheye zoom lenses with a constant f/2.8 aperture, ideal for travel, adventure, and handheld shooting.
Perfect for landscape photographers, vloggers, and drone-based creators, this lens delivers bold fisheye visuals without the bulk, enhancing mobility and convenience for on-the-go content creation.
Pricing & Availability
The LAOWA 8-15mm f/2.8 FF Zoom Fisheye is available now at the official Venus Optics online store or in mid-June at B&H Photo for $699 USD.
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Cameralabs has a (p)review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-39oL-FXj8k&t=26s
At 15mm with focus at 2 ft, this changes to 1.5 ft to 3 ft at f/4, and 1.25 ft to 5.5 ft at f/8. If you change your focus to just over 3 ft, then everything from 1.5 ft to infinity is in focus at f/8. With a focus of 6.5 ft, everything from 3 ft to infinity is in focus at f/8. This can provide some very interesting effects.
Here's a few images of the 2000+ images taken with the EF 8-15 on a T2i, 6D over the years. I use it quite a bit less now that I have the EF 11-24. It may get a bit more usage when I want to carry a lighter load. The key is to have some foreground interest in most cases to give it depth. I use it in tight indoor spaces, hiking in the mountains, events, astrophotography and more. The first two are set for infinity focus, the last two for very close focus (nearly touching the lens) so little depth of field and curvature becomes more noticeable.
550D, ISO 100, f 11, 1/125, 10mm. Diagonal fisheye for scenery on a crop camera.
6D, ISO 400, f 4, 30 sec, 15mm. Moon and stars diagonal fisheye - slight start trails from the 30sec exposure.
550D, ISO 100, f 4, 1/60, 8mm. Nearly touching a horizontal log (maybe an inch away), a bit of the fisheye circle showing. 10mm gives diagonal fisheye on crop cameras like the 550D.
550D, ISO 3200, f 4, 1/25 sec, 10mm. Opportunistic cat selfy nearly touching the lens, no chance to change the settings or look through the viewfinder - just held it near the floor and shot. Love the focus on the eyes - pure luck.