The Laowa 9mm F2.8 Zero-D seems to have sold like hot cakes, since it was hard to find in stock and it took Venus Optics from March to July only to fulfill all pre-orders.
But now the shortage seems to be over, and Venus Optics told me that they have a much more stable supply now.
Venus Optics gives priority to those customers, who order directly at their website. Hence, the Laowa 9mmF2.8 is still hard to find at other stores. Check out the list below.
I am now about to edit my images, but I am so happy that I guess in about 80% of the cases I will get excellent results applying Fujifilm film simulations only (or slightly fine tuned).
My most used lenses were the XF10-24 and XF18-135, since I mostly focussed on landscape photography in this trip.
I used the 35 and 27 mainly to make some portraits of my girlfriend and some street photos, but so far I could not convince her to give me permission to share them on FujiRumors, but I’ll not give up, and if I get permission, I will share them on my Instagram page here.
I have shared the first few images of my trip on my social media already (more will come), so in case you would like to find out which places I have been to, just check out my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages.
Most Impressive Town – Positano (Instagram)… just to pick one of the many fantastic cities and villages I have seen… more images to follow on social media
Your Rumors
Now I am back… 100% focussed on FujiRumors… and I tell you: I have the feeling that rumors will come. Many of them. And here is what you should do, if you don’t want to miss them:
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Guys, we are going to have fun… and I have the feeling you don’t want to miss the exciting Fujifilm rumors that are coming ;)
“There’s no front filterthread. The lenshood is permanently fixed to the front of the lens like for example the Samyang 8mm fisheye. This means that for all you long-exposure landscape geeks, you will need to wait for your filtersystem manufacturer to provide a filter adapter. This is far from ideal, and to me it’s the single biggest flaw of this lens.
Supposedly not released until November, the wait for the 8-16mm f/2.8 to be released will give the filtersystem manufacturers some time to launch a filter holder system.”
Well, there are currently already working filter holder system options for the XF 8-16mm F2.8, as you can see from the screenshots above, taken from Mark Gilligan’s video shared at the Fujifilm’s global youtube channel here.
