All Loawa lens are manual. Auto focus will lock in the focus from what ever distance you are from the subject. Lets say an dragon fly for example. You auto focus on the eye's, the camera locks that focus and then you slightly sway backwards just before the picture is taken. The eye's may not be in focus anymore. My Sony 90mm has auto focus and I turn that off sometimes because I can't hold my arms of body steady.Is that related to laowa lenses? I don't have one yet. I'm using my Canon 100mm L f2.8 (haven't touched for a while). And so far the auto focus works OK. I don't know how laowa works, I heard that they are manual lenses.
All Loawa lens are manual. Auto focus will lock in the focus from what ever distance you are from the subject. Lets say an dragon fly for example. You auto focus on the eye's, the camera locks that focus and then you slightly sway backwards just before the picture is taken. The eye's may not be in focus anymore. My Sony 90mm has auto focus and I turn that off sometimes because I can't hold my arms of body steady.
I will be ordering the Laowa 50mm f / 2.8 2X Ultra Macro APO for my Olympus next month.
Nice for the little creatures that I photograph.
I had a manual 2:1 Oshiro (cheap version of Laowa ) the first couple of days are hard but now I just shoot manual even with my 90mm Tamron . I only use AF for portraits.
Jack Yes I am planning to get one for my Tamron since I sold the Oshiro plus on the full frame the subject looks less magnified (at 1:1 ) comper to crop sensor.
Don't forget if the apature is manual , then the focusing is really hard because of the light loss ( this is one of the reason why I sold my manual macro lens ) .I used the non-L Canon 100 mm until recently always used it on MF. Most AF systems can't keep up with the shallow DoF, small movements (subject and the camera+lens) plus the lightloss (small aperture+magnification). This applies only to around 1:1 magnification above it works as normal.
Laowa macro lenses are not just manual focus lenses but most have manual aperture.
I don't mind selling my Canon lens and buying both the Laowa 100 mm and the 25 mm 2.5-5x one. The image quality is really good and I don't mind the MF.
Or used if is cheaperYou planning to buy if brand new?
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