Laowa 85mm f5.6 Ultra Macro APO 2X

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Laowa 85mm f/5.6 2x Ultra Macro APO is a mirrorless designed macro lens with a viewing angle of 28.55° for full frame. It's the smallest 2x macro lens on the full-frame market. It weighs only around 252g, which is super portable and useful for macro photographers. It has an apochromatic feature (APO) that chromatic aberration in both "focused" and "out of focus" is compressed to a minimum. This new lens can focus from 2:1 magnification to infinity, which can serve as a macro and portrait lens with great image quality.

The smallest full-frame 2X macro lens

Laowa 85mm f/5.6 2x Ultra Macro APO is specially designed for full-frame mirrorless cameras. It's also the most compact 2x macro lens on the market. At just 259g (9.12oz), the lens offers photographers a wider range of flexibility in creation. The APO design allows this lens to produce pleasant minimal AC images. It relieves photographers of their heavy gear load.

A load-free macro experience

Eliminating the traditional heavy and bulky macro lens, Laowa makes this 85mm lens revolutionarily small. Built specifically for mirrorless full-frame cameras with a smaller aperture of f/5.6, the new 85mm macro lens only weighs about 259g (9.1oz, SONY E) and a size of Φ53mm × 81mm (2.09" x3.18", SONY E). It's perfect for photographers looking for an extremely lightweight setup, such as using in a Bioblitz. This lens would fit perfectly with the body of the portable mirrorless camera, which makes macro photography very simple and at the same time reproduces images with excellent and exceptional image quality.

From infinity to 2x macro

This new 85mm lens can focus from infinity to 2x magnification along with a minimum focusing distance of 16.3cm/6.41". With a magnification of 2x, objects of smaller size can be easily captured and at the same time retain more detail. The lens remains flexible and versatile in different shooting circumstances.

APO Design

The newly designed 13-element optical structure in 9 groups contains 3 extra-low dispersion elements that eliminates color stripes in the focused and blurred areas. Reproducing stunning magnified images without chromatic aberration would be an added convenience for photographers as it saves a lot of time and effort in post-production.

Internal approach

The internal focus design prevents the collision of the lens and objects. It also prevents dust or ash from falling into the lens.