Venus Laowa Argus 25mm f/0.95 CF APO Lens for Nikon Z

While the Laowa Argus 25mm f/0.95 CF APO Lens for Nikon Z is the latest addition to the Argus series, it stands out with its ultra-fast aperture, making it a prime choice for APS-C cameras. With this lens, Laowa expands its range to six f/0.95 brightness lenses, catering to full frame, APS-C, and MFT cameras.

This 25mm f/0.95 lens is engineered with an APO feature, specifically designed to minimize chromatic aberration, ensuring impressive image quality even at maximum aperture. It delivers exceptional sharpness in in-focus areas and produces pleasing bokeh in out-of-focus areas, making it a compact and versatile lens for portrait and low-light photography.

The lens boasts low focus breathing, user-friendly switches, and internal focusing, making it an ideal choice for both photographers and videographers. The f/0.95 ultra-fast aperture is perfect for creating impactful images, allowing for a shallower depth of field (DoF) for astonishing subject separation from the background. Whether it's portrait, low-light, or astro-photography, this lens captures every essence of light along the way.

The 9-bladed aperture generates satisfying bokeh effects, creating a dreamy background for stunning portrait photography. With a natural 58.8-degree angle of view, the 25mm focal length on the APS-C sensor is equivalent to the 35mm focal length in full-frame format, making the lens extremely versatile for portraits, landscape, and street photography.

The lens is engineered with 1 ED glass and 2 highly refractive glasses to suppress longitudinal and lateral chromatic aberration across in-focus & out-of-focus areas. Purple fringing and ghosting are controlled to the minimum throughout the aperture range. The APO design, combined with the fast aperture, allows the lens to produce outstanding image performance for higher contrast and image fidelity.

The 25mm f/0.95 lens has a minimum focusing distance of 34cm, allowing for an extremely blurry background while preserving object details. The Aperture Ring Click Switch Mechanism allows you to choose whether to have a clicked or silent aperture ring, supporting both photography and video needs.

Like other lenses in the Argus series, it is built with an internal focusing characteristic, enhancing stability and maximizing optical performance in both infinity focus and minimum focusing distance. This also helps achieve a lower focus breathing effect, making the focus transition more natural. The lens is compatible with accessories designed to be set to a specific position like polarizers, and petal-shaped lens hoods.