Laowa Ranger 16-30mm T2.9 FF Cine Lens - PL/EF

Laowa Ranger 16-30mm T2.9 FF Cine Lens - PL/EF

About the Laowa Ranger 16-30mm T2.9 FF Cine Lens - PL/EF
Weighing just 799g/1.99 lbs, the Ranger redefines convenience and mobility. The lightweight and compact design makes them the perfect companions for various shooting setups, including gimbals, shoulder rigs, car rigs and even handheld operation. Filmmakers are welcome to embrace a new era of flexibility with these portable lenses.

Long and versatile zoom range

The lenses come with the popular and versatile zoom range, flexible to use from 16 to 180mm for the whole set with more than 6.4x zoom ratio in total. The 28mm focal length allows you to capture sweeping wide-angle shots, create breathtaking landscapes and set the scene for a story. Taking a step further into telephoto territory, when the 135mm focal length brings distant subjects closer, with the impressive 180mm focal length, we can even magnify distant scenes and reveal highlights with ease, leaving audiences satisfied. Filmmakers can explore many more framing possibilities with Ranger.
Constant T2.9 aperture
The Ranger has a constant T2.9 aperture and delivers consistent exposure throughout the zoom range, ensuring your images remain sharp and well-lit in low light.

Parfocal Design

With parfocal being the essential characteristic of a good zoom lens, the Ranger excels in maintaining precise focus with its excellent parfocal design. Zoom in and out confidently, knowing your subject remains sharp and in focus, so you can capture seamless and uninterrupted images.

Almost invisible focus breathing

The virtually invisible focus breathing ensures smooth focus transitions, maintaining the quality of your images during focus shifting shots, filmmakers can enjoy the freedom to tell your story without any visual disturbances.

Decent Round Bokeh

Experience the mesmerizing beauty of bokeh with the 11-blade design, ensuring soft edges of the round bokeh with the lens wide open.

High optical performance with sharp image quality

With their high optical performance, Ranger lenses deliver exceptional image quality and natural color reproduction. Whether shooting wide open or at smaller apertures, these lenses maintain sharpness, contrast and accurate color reproduction, so you can capture great images every time.

Interchangeable PL/EF mounts and optional mirrorless mounts

The lenses come with a built-in PL mount and an interchangeable EF bayonet, providing compatibility with a range of cameras. In addition, we offer additional mirrorless mounts such as RF/E/Z/L, to cater to filmmakers with a wide range of cameras.

Ranger is an exciting, straight-forward lens built with all the desirable optical performance, and comes with appetizing prices, to guide you into the world of film zooms.

Professional film housing for Ranger

This lightweight and compact lens aims to provide a convenient and easy journey along your shooting production, so its user-friendly movie features support demanding production needs and combine effectively with other movie gear.

Back focus adjustment

The lenses come with a built-in back focus adjustment system, no more redundant shim process needed.

Uniform gear position

The Ranger built with MOD 0.8 gears to work with pitching. Support threads can be mounted with triplod or other lens gears. The unified gear position can be quickly switched between the two focal lengths to work with the same set of gears.

Ø 77 mm filter thread and 80 mm outer diameter

The 77mm filter thread and 80mm outer diameter are compatible with a matte box and mounting ring for improved visual control.