For DPs looking for lightweight and compact anamorphic zoom lenses for their various cinematography projects, Venus Optics ...

Typically, camera lenses are essentially straight, rigid barrels full of glass - that's not the case with the tilt/shift lenses, such as the Laowa 55mm f/2.8 tilt-shift 1x macro from Venus optics.

Venus Optics introduces the Laowa Proteus 2x Anamorphic Zoom Series, the lightest, most compact, and most affordable 2x Front ...

While many third-party optics brands are known for being more budget friendly, Laowa is, perhaps, an optics brand best known for unusual lenses like its strange-looking macro probe lenses.