The short version is that Laowa have a great lens here for MFT owners. Beautifully crisp right through to the corners, and plenty of quality in the build. You can easily add filters for slow shutter photography, and that ultra-wide perspective will be great for auroras in the Arctic as well.
The Laowa 6mm F2 is a manual focus lens made for Micro Four Thirds, so that 6mm ends up being closer to 12mm on a full-frame camera. That's very very wide. Last month I featured a few sets of images shot with Tamron's new 12-20mm F2.8 zoom, and how much I love that lens. This month, we're looking at a similar wide angle but for cameras like the Olympus/OM and Lumix G series.
I've used a similar lens from Laowa a lot in the past when I used to shoot with Lumix. They have a 7.5mm F2 that gives you roughly 15mm in full-frame terms. It is a great lens and I've used this for auroras and ultra-wide landscapes with great success.
When I found out Ian had bought the new 6mm version, I asked him to help me do a review. In the video Ian walks through some of his theories about making ultra-wide work as a photographer, and some of the traps we fall into when first starting out. It's a great video, and I encourage folks to give it a watch!
Ian and I go way back. I met him at a camera club one night when I was presenting, and we just hit it off. I loved his enthusiasm for teaching the craft, and for drawing others into his world of landscapes with a wide angle lens. All these years later, he's still doing the same thing only this time on YouTube.
– Ewen
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