The Laowa 24mm T/14 Periprobe has been a massive hit, but now it’s even easier to use with a right-angle tip.
When Laowa first offered its wide angle 24mm Periprobe macro a few years ago, it was an immediate hit. You now see shots from it everywhere, showing up in narrative productions, DP reels, and commercial and music video work. Wide-angle super macro, where you can basically touch the lens to something and keep it in focus, is just fun.
There was one drawback, however, and that was lens placement. A tube lens is pretty darn long, and that can limit your ability to put the lens where you want to with ease. It required some planning and forethought, and sometimes some crazy rigging, to get some particularly complicated shots since you really had to think through what it would take to get a lens that long into a good place to get a shot. And sometimes, especially for some interior angles, it just wasn’t possible at all to get the lens placement you were looking for.
Laowa has fixed this with the new 2.0 release of the lens, which comes with a right-angle rotating system for getting much trickier shots.
Author: Charles Haine
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
