Based on experience with other ultrawides I'd guess not as well; a step up is comparable to a filter in stack height, so if there's significant vignetting with a 46mm polarizer or two regular 46mm filters it's likely a 49mm on a step up will show in the corners as well.
Having owned the Voigtlander Nokton trio previously, MF isn’t a huge deal (especially for landscape work). And lens swapping isn’t an issue either, as my second E-M1 II would have the 12-100 mounted on it.
I can't compare it to PL 8-18 but I can tell you that my Laowa is always in my camera back since it's so damn small. I've been happy with the IQ but then again I don't have the Oly or PL UW to compare it against.
Do you think it wanders? I "calibrated" it once by focusing to far distance using magnifier and then checking how it falls on the distance scale. In my copy, infinity falls exactly in between the leftmost "2.8" and the focus tic. That's why I got many soft images early on because I absend-mindedly focused to "infinity" which was actually way past it.
But I wouldn't be adding any more lenses, only swapping one for another. That has to count for something, right?Not crazy, just a gear whore...
I considered adding it. But in the end I decided if I just want small, light, and fun I already have the 9mm BCL. My PL8-18 isn't going anywhere.
I was kind of wondering about that myself. I just picked one up about a month ago and while it is incredibly sharp and contrasty, it seems at times to be too contrasty. Especially wide open, it’s pretty easy to end up with a shot that is dark at the edges and blown out in the center, but even stop down and with good exposures I have to set my tone curves to a flatter setpoint than I do for my other Olympus lenses because otherwise the shots will come out way too contrasty. Wide open, it’s pretty easy to end up with a shot that is dark at the edges and blown out in the center, but even stop down and with good exposures I have to set my tone curves to a flatter setpoint than I do for my other Olympus lenses because otherwise the shots will come out too contrasty. Also, for some odd reason I have a very hard time getting correct white balance with this lens. Even with a white card at best I end up too warm. A very finicky but rewarding lens. Some samples from Spain
Hi, that could be vignetting, but I don't notice it in the pics you just posted.
Yeah unfortunately I didn’t have any good examples at the moment.
Hi, the sharp black corners in the first image are probably caused by sensor movement from the IBIS, notice they're only obvious on the top corners.
The very far corners are vignetting; on that shot I had a neutral density on and it was clipping the corners. I was more concerned about the more subtle darkening that radiated outward. That issue in itself is not such a big deal. My bigger problem is with white balance. I have a feeling that the wide-angle makes it difficult for the camera to determine where to be picking a white point from, even with a white card. At least with my copy of the lens, it will be significantly warmer than my other lenses (comparable if not a little worse than my Supertak 50 F1.4).
