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    Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro

    Jul 28, 2020 4 minutes

    Five years ago, the Chinese lens maker Venus Optics and its Laowa brand were barely known in the UK. But this restlessly innovative company now offers an impressive range of manual-focus optics. One of its main areas of expertise is macro photography, and while other makers are content with 1:1 magnification, it’s gone a step further in building lenses that give twice life-size reproduction, while still focusing to infinity.

    Following on from its well received 100mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO for full-frame SLRs, the 65mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro that we’re looking at here is effectively a scaled-down version for APS-C mirrorless cameras. It’s made in

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