Introduction

Over recent years, we’ve seen a flood of fully manual focus lenses – some more interesting than others. However, at the end of the day, these are niche products that probably find more friends in the movie segment rather than among photographers. If a manufacturer wants to go mainstream, they have to offer electronic coupling with the camera. Of course, that’s easily said but reverse-engineering camera protocols is a tough job. It has been a tough job for Laowa as well but they have just released their first lens featuring a camera-controlled aperture and support for EXIF data – albeit only in Canon EOS mount (mechanical aperture coupling is available in Nikon mount). Meet the Laowa 100mm f/2.8 2x Macro APO, Laowa’s 2nd macro lens.
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