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The Venus Optics Laowa 10 mm f/4.0 Cookie is an ultra-wide pancake lens designed specifically for mirrorless cameras. The model presented here is compatible with the Sony E mount. It owes its name Cookie to its ultra-compact dimensions and light weight. The glass offers an incredible 109.3° angle of view, sharpening from as close as 10 cm and a top-of-the-range optical system that includes aspherical and ultra-low dispersion lenses. This is the world's widest rectilinear pancake! The 5-blade aperture produces beautiful 10-point stars. The lens also features a 37mm thread for convenient filter installation.
As befits a pancake, the Venus Optics Laowa 10 mm f/4.0 Cookie lens is a glass that aims to take up as little space as possible. In this category, the Cookie is unrivalled! The lens weighs just 130 g with dimensions of Ø59.8 x 25 mm. When you take handheld photos with it, the thought will come to mind more than once: is my camera, surely it has a lens attached!
The angle of view of the Venus Optics Laowa 10 mm f/4.0 Cookie lens for the Sony E is as wide as 109.3°. This is a record result when it comes to pancake glass available on the market! Such a wide lens will be the ideal travel companion for photographers who want to show the beauty of landscapes in their frames. The wide perspective will also provide great flexibility when shooting street photography and tight interiors.
The Venus Optics Laowa 10 mm f/4.0 Cookie lens for Sony E boasts an ultra-low distortion level. It is thanks to this that horizontal and vertical lines appearing in your photographs will remain almost completely unchanged in their planes. Maintaining the correct geometry will be especially appreciated by those who photograph architecture. The low level of distortion will also help to reduce the time it takes to process your images in computer programmes.
The optics of the Venus Optics Laowa 10 mm f/4.0 Cookie lens for Sony E are based on 12 elements arranged in 8 groups. Under the casing, there is no shortage of 2 aspherical lenses and 4 made of ultra-low dispersion glass. The lens stands out from the crowd of competing pancakes with its superb image quality and successfully controls the flare effect that often occurs when light is reflected inside the camera.
The minimum focusing distance with the Venus Optics Laowa 10 mm f/4.0 Cookie lens for Sony E is just 10 cm. This makes it easy to capture all the details of subjects photographed up close. The lens also delivers great sharpness and minimised vignetting at smaller apertures.
The icing on the cake is the 37 mm thread that allows filters to be installed on the lens. With the Cookie, you don't have to spend money on additional mounts. The Venus Optics Laowa 10 mm f/4.0 Cookie provides versatility that few pancake lenses on the market can offer!
Lens mount | Sony E |
Lens Format Coverage | APS-C |
Lens Design | Prime Lenses |
Lens focus length, mm | 10 |
Focus Type | Manual Focus |
Image Stabilization | Yes |
Image Stabilization | No |
Lens type | wideangle |
Filter size | 37mm |
Maximum Aperture | f/4 |