Laowa OOOM 25-100mm t/2.9 Cine Lens
Laowa

Laowa OOOM 25-100mm t/2.9 Cine Lens

R 99,999.00
The Laowa OOOM 25-100mm T2.9 is the ideal all-in-one zoom lens for the cinematographers who are looking to stop renting cine zoom lenses for jobs. It's robust build quality and versatility put it in a class well above its price tag. The OOOM features a comprehensive 4X zoom range, a constant T2.9 aperture throughout the zoom range and par-focal design. It also has a close-to-zero focus breathing. The OOOM lens includes a default PL mount with interchangeable standard Canon EF and Sony E mount, all packed neatly in a custom foamed hard case. The optional bundle includes the tailored 1.33x Anamorphic Rear Adapter and 1.4x Full Frame Expander. Both of them will be available later this year.

An all-in-one zoom lens with a blend of vintage & modern characters

Product Highlights

  • Comprehensive 4x zoom range
  • A versatile, all-in-one lens. From ultra-wide to telephoto.
  • From closeup to wide shot
  • The OOOM easily cover your closeup and wide shot with its 25-100mm zoom range. Extremely versatile and saving your production time from setup and changing lenses.
  • Parfocal Design
  • The focus remains the same no matter zoom in or out. Your subject remains sharp and in focus.
  • Extraordinary low focus breathing
  • Your composition will remain the same when changing the focus. Nothing would distract your viewers anymore.
  • Constant T2.9 With super close focus
  • The large constant T2.9 allows you to shot in low light situation through-out the whole zoom range. And the lens can focus as close as 60cm (~2 feet) which give you more opportunities for a creative shot.
  • The OOOM look
  • The OOOM gives a beautiful vintage look in its colour and bokeh. The lens is not overly contrasty nor flat. It also renders a natural and healthy skin tone.
  • All-in-One Solution
  • The OOOM lens includes a default PL mount with interchange standard Canon EF and Sony E mount, all packed neatly in a custom foamed travel case.
  • Convertible into Full Frame lens
  • Specially designed 1.4x FF expander converts into Full Frame lens. The focal length scale is switchable after expander used. Customer can purchase 1.4x FF expander to enhance the capabilities.

Specifications

OOOM 25-100mm T2.9 Cine

Focal Length

25-100mm

T-stop range

T2.9-22

Zoom factor

4X

Format Compatible

S35+

Optical structure

20 elements in 16 groups

Aperture blades

9

Closest Focusing Distance

60cm

Max. Magnification

0.25x

Weight

~2.5kg

Aperture throw

50.5 °

Zoom throw

163 °

Focus throw

300 °

Measurement

Φ 102*240 mm

Front Diameter

100mm (114mm step-up ring included)

Filter Thread

95mm

Mount

PL / EF / FE (Interchangeable)

 

Max. Coverage (RED)

Red Monstro (6K HD)

Max. Coverage (Arri)

Arri Alexa Mini 4K UHD

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Delivery options and what they cost

We pride ourselves on FREE lightning fast shipping. Apart from large f-stop gear orders, most of our items ship overnight and the daily cutoff is 14:00. You can read more on the deliveries page or get in touch for a confirmed delivery date and time. 

Can I collect my parcel? 

Yes, you can collect your order from our office in Bosman's Crossing, Stellenbosch (09:00 - 17:00). Just choose the collection option at checkout- we'll follow up with the specifics. Please note that we are very strict about payment if collecting. We will not release any goods if we are not 100% comfortable about payment. We accept the following as payment confirmation in order to release the goods. Please call or message Rudolph on 061 468 1931 if you have any questions.

  • Payfast Card Payment (any customers, new or returning)
  • EFT from FNB to FNB, pending fund clearance (any customers, new or returning)
  • Normal EFT from other banks to FNB (return customers only)
  • Instant EFT from other banks to FNB, pending fund clearance (Any customers, new or returning) 
  • Cash (any customers, new or returning)

What payment options are available?  

  • EFT
  • EFT via Payfast
  • Credit card: VISA & Mastercard

What is your policy on returns and or exchanges?

We are more than happy to exchange any product for something else or a full refund* if you feel that the item you chose isn’t quite right for you. See our Return Policy page for more. 

*If paying with any card, 4.5% of the transaction value goes to the credit card payment facilitation company. "Full Refund" means that we will return the full amount we received after the credit card service fees. If you are at all unsure that what you're buying is ideal for you, rather opt for EFT payment to be safe. 

Where is my order? How can I track my order?

You will receive an email with your tracking number once your order has been collected by our couriers. You can also find tracking number for your orders under "My account" 

You can shop NiSi Filters at the following retailers. 

Orms Bellville
Victorian Towers, 2 Palm St, Bellville, Cape Town

Fritz, 021 910 1380

Kameraz
Rosebank Mall, 50 Bath Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg

Martin Wright, 011 880 2885

Photoquip
28 Pearce St, Berea, East London

Damien, 083 574 9134

Katz
66 17th Ave, Broadwood, Port Elizabeth
Lascel, 041 367 4401

Lime Photo
Kloof, Durban
Emil, 084 484 9959

Photo Freedom
Ballito, Durban
Graham, 032 586 1212

DPC
Pretoria
Danie, 072 608 3345

We have a no-nonsense approach. If a product breaks due to a manufacturer defect, we will replace it without asking any questions. If we have any reason to believe that the product was put through unreasonably heavy usage, we will have to follow the manufacturer's standard warranty procedure. 

Find more info on proper care and use for each brand below. 

NiSi Care & Use

F-stop Care & Use

Leofoto

The manufacturer offers a 10-year limited warranty on all products and we extend that warranty to our customers. Please read the below very carefully, so you understand your position when something breaks or doesn’t work ideally anymore.

It is critical to understand that this warranty only applies to factory faults and not to standard wear and tear. Tripods are subject to a lot of gray areas in this regard as tripods used outdoors, particularly in sand and sea water, are subjected to extreme wear and tear. We will e.g. replace the affected part of your tripod if a carbon tube snaps or cracks without much pressure applied to it or if the apex breaks. We will not replace your tripod or the affected part if e.g. a joint locks up due to sand or salt build up or if a hinge becomes corroded or stiff/floppy and unserviceable due to corrosion or salt build up. 

In sum, if we see that you took good care of your tripod and something went wrong, we will go out of our way to fix or replace it for you. If we see that you dragged it through the mud (literally or metaphorically), then we are unlikely to fix/replace it for you. How you handle your tripod and take care of it, is all the difference between 3- or 20 years of service. 

The best of tripods will not last longer than 2/3 years if used regularly in the sea, INCORRECTLY, and never serviced. Always make sure to extend the lowest leg section first, so you keep the joints out of the water/sand. Always rinse with freshwater after use in the sea, wipe down with a wet cloth, leave extended to dry and ENSURE YOU KEEP THE HEAD AND APEX DRY. If your tripod’s joints start feeling sandy/gritty, open them up, give them a proper clean and lubrication and fine-tune the tension on the joints.

If travelling on dirt roads, ensure that your tripod is in its carry-bag when not in use.

Your tripod will not take care of itself – it is up to you to do so. All our tripods ship with an info-sheet on taking care of your tripod. We also offer a full tripod disassembly and service for R1000, including shipping both ways.

Choosing Laowa

Understanding the Laowa product range

1. Firstly, they make a variety of macro lenses, primarily for the 35mm market - Canon, Nikon and Sony. 

2. Secondly, they make what is essentially only one wide angle lens, but for all formats from Micro ¾, Fuji X, 35mm, Fuji GFX and even PL mounts. Once you consolidate these different versions of the Zero-D ultra-wide, the product range is quite simple. 

3. Thirdly, they are now (2019) expanding the product range beyond the Zero-D and macro lenses with a dedicated cine zoom and a range of fast, wide MFT lenses for the pro-drone market. The also released their first wide angle zoom lens recently, suggesting that they will be releasing zoom lenses for all mounts. 

Ultra Wide Zero-D Lens

The middle lens (12mm) is the brand’s genesis. It offers a super wide view, impeccable sharpness and class-leading distortion performance in a compact and rock-solid build at a price far below the electronic competition. 

Building on the success of the 12mm, they released versions for almost every mount on the market, which is what you see to the left and right of the 12mm, so essentially these are all the same lens, for different users. Note that the 15mm f/4 is absent - it is something totally different, which is why it is confusing to approach the Laowa product range from a focal length perspective. 

Macro Madness

Laowa seem to have become better known for their macro lenses as this is an area that the mainstream manufacturers have neglected and Laowa have seized the gap with resounding success. As these lenses are all different, we will elaborate more on each with a dedicated content section. Instead of going chronologically, we’ll sort them by weirdness. Image © XiaoKaiHuo

Choosing Laowa

24mm f/14 2x Probe Lens

Released in 2018, this lens launched Laowa far beyond the world of macro and wide angle photo nerds into the tech spotlight.

The wide angle of view combined with the long narrow (and waterproof) tip has opened up a completely new world to photographers and videographers. Originally designed with nature macro photographers in mind, the biggest market for the lens is food and product videography. The lens produces a wide angle micro-view of anything from a burger to a microchip or a line-up of wine bottles. Mind you, people are also getting amazing close-ups of things like bees in their hives and fish in shallow water. 

Laowa 24mm f/14 2x Macro Probe Lens

Choosing Laowa

15mm f/4 1x Macro Lens with Shift

All the manufacturers make macro lenses with a long focal length - why? We don’t know, but we’re glad that someone decided to do something different. A magnification factor of one doesn’t sound like much, but your mind might be changed by this lens’s minimum focus distance - seven millimeters. Not centimeters, millimeters. 

This lens allows a close-up of any subject (that doesn’t bite) WITH its surroundings included in the photo. Oh and it also has a shift function. Laowa know how to make lenses that offer a unique view and this is one of their most popular lenses. Our customers most commonly use it for close-ups of small critters in their environment or for close-up product photography with a secondary subject in background. 

Laowa 15mm f/4 1:1 Wide Angle Macro Lens

Choosing laowa

25mm f/2.8 x 2.5 - x5.0

An affordable ultra-macro lens with spectacular image quality. Don’t take our word for it - read SA’s macro queen Vida van der Walt’s thoughts on the lens.

This not only opens the 5x macro world for Nikon and Sony shooters, but it also makes it available to Canon shooters for a fraction of the price of the MPE 65mm.

Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x Ultra Macro Lens

Choosing Laowa

60mm + 100mm f/2.8 2x Macro

The 60mm is another one of Laowa’s benchmark lenses as it offers image quality that will scare an MTF chart’s curves straight and twice the magnification of Canon and Nikon’s offerings. 

Add class-leading bokeh, indestructible build quality and affordability and you’ve got one of the best macro lenses on the market. 

In response to the success of the 60mm, a 100mm counterpart will be released in Q2 or Q3 of 2019. Did we mention that despite a 2x magnification factor, these lenses focus to infinity and make killer primes for general use?

Laowa 60mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro Lens

15mm f/4 Wide Angle Macro

A Drakensberg Crag Lizard by Luke Verburgt. Available for Canon, Nikon and Sony. 

Choosing Laowa

10-18mm f/4 - f/5.6 for Sony FE

Laowa are rapidly expanding their lens line-up in a variety of directions. The first and most notable is their first zoom lens, the 10-18mm f/4-f/5.6 for Sony’s full frame FE mount.

Laowa 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 Lens SONY FE

10-18mm f/4 - f/5.6 for Sony FE

West Coast Jetty by Basil Parker.

Taking on the big guns

25-100mm OOOM T/2.6 Cine Zoom

Slated for release in early 2020, this lens promises amazing image quality and bokeh with near zero focus breathing at a price that will scare the Japanese and German cine lens manufacturers. 

Tiny Wides

4mm f/2.8 + 17mm f/1.8 MFT

Laowa are tackling the demand for affordable, fast, wide primes for the MFT market with the development of a fisheye and f/1.8 wide lens for this booming mount.