Tilt/Shift lenses are very complicated instruments, and Laowa has worked on making everything even more complicated by making their newest lens a macro lens, too. There’s no question that the new T/S 55mm F2.8 is big (168.55mm or 6.63″), heavy (1345g or 47.5oz), and expensive ($1249 USD), but it is also one of the finest lenses they have yet made optically. It’s a lens that you’ll pretty much exclusively have to use off of a tripod, but it’s also capable of producing extraordinarily good results. Sound interesting? Let’s dive into it together (which you can do in either my video review, linked below, by reading the text review, or by checking out the photos in the galleries below.)

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Thanks to Laowa for sending me a review loaner of this lens.   As always, this is a completely independent review.  All opinions and conclusions are my own. *The tests and most of the photos that I share as a part of my review cycle have been done with the 45MP Nikon Z8, which I reviewed here.

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The T/S 55mm is one of two lenses releasing simultaneously from Laowa, with a 100mm option also available.

As noted, the size and complexity of all the moving parts on a tilt/shift lens make it a difficult proposition to use handheld. There are at least seven different adjustment dials and levers of this lens, as it can move up to 12mm of shift and 10° of tilt.

The Laowa T/S 55mm will be available in a wide variety of lens mounts, including full frame: Nikon Z (tested here), Sony E, Canon RF, and L Mount, but also two medium format mounts, including Fuji GFX and Hasselblad XCD mount. The medium format availability tells us that this is a lens that is overengineered for the full frame image circle, which should point to some incredible performance.

Image quality is pretty pristine, and, of course, the kinds of images you can get are both unique and interesting.

Check out the reviews or enjoy the photos below.

Images of the Laowa T/S 55mm F2.8

Images taken with the Laowa T/S 55mm F2.8

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