A very niche market may keep the cost higher. The tilt-shift lens is designed to correct your perspective as opposed to barrel/pincushion so you can shoot a building from the ground level across the street and make it look like your shot from a crane at a distance where the width of the top and bottom are close to the same. The Laowa seem awfully good at rectilinear representation and I think that would be worth saving up for when shooting real estate to remove barrel distortion. At one end you’re shooting for Architectural Digest or museum quality prints of Venice or cathedrals at the other end, you’re shooting for personal pleasure and want something more creative (distorted) than accurate (tilt-shift on a large format view camera) in-between I would think is residential real estate where you just need to please the realtor. When one says shoot “architecture,” there is likely a huge range of possibilities. Have you decided what your next wider lens will be if 16mm isn’t enough? I do believe, that "you get what you pay for". I admit, I have no experience with the Laowa D lenses. I sold my Rokinon 12mm, (too soft and focus is really touchy to nail it at 5 ft or further away when wide open. I no longer use my Panny 7-14 (too much CA and not fast enough at f4.
Whats the point of a T2.1 fast lens is the lens is not sharp at wide open) I sold my SLR Magic 10MM t 2.1 (just too soft for my liking at the center and edges and when wide open.
I generally prefer all manual lenses, but this ones image sharpness sold it for me. I can add screw on ND filters which is important for my style of video work. I can focus it manually, or use the push to focus button on the BMPCC4K. Pretty sharp at wide open, sweet spot at 5.6 or so. This lens, has more often than not better image quality than many of the lenses listed prior. The zoom to 18mm for me is an added bonus. Although this is a zoom, I almost always use it at 8mm like a prime. So far, this has the best sharpness at wide open f stop, decent from center to edge. I have owned and used some of the lenses mentioned above and other on my BMPCC4K.ĭisregarding very expensive cinema primes, so far, the best very wide angle for the MFT format that I have used in terms of image quality is the:
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