Imaging recource: Totally tubular: Laowa launches Kickstarter for full-frame 24mm f/14 2:1 macro probe lens

Laowa has launched a Kickstarter campaign -- which has already been funded on its first day -- for what they call the "weirdest but most genius lens ever for creative shooting." I'm certainly on board with the former term, it's definitely weird. The new lens is a 24mm f/14 Probe macro lens. You read that correctly, it's an f/14 lens. That is odd in and of itself, but what makes the lens even more unusual is that it's a 2:1 macro lens and it is essentially just a long tube. The lens is being marketed primarily as a video lens, but...
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