These are the best Laowa lenses for landscape photography, chosen for how they blend rectilinear calm, corner-to-corner acuity, distinctive speed options, and travel-friendly builds that keep lines straight and flare in check from blue hour to high noon. Landscape is about geometry and consistency: wides that stay honest at the edges, coatings that hold contrast with the sun or neon in-frame, close-focus for foreground anchors, and mechanics that make tripod work, filters, and stitching painless. Start with the full-frame Zero-D heroes—Laowa 15mm f/2 Zero-D for fast, clean astro and dawn vistas with impressive corner discipline, and Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Zero-D when you want dramatic sweep with straight lines (and easy holder-based filters) for skylines and canyon interiors; add the featherweight FF RL duo—11mm f/4.5 FF RL and 9mm f/5.6 FF RL—for pocketable, rectilinear coverage that slips into any hiking kit while delivering astonishing FOV and tidy geometry for handheld interiors and gimbal walk-throughs. If range matters, the Laowa 12–24mm f/5.6 Zoom covers classic wide-to-ultra-wide with consistent color and close-focus for dynamic foregrounds, while the 10–18mm f/4.5–5.6 FE is the compact travel ultrawide with rear/holder filter options when screw-ins won’t fit. Perspective control elevates grand scenes: the Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift offers generous, smooth rise/fall to keep verticals parallel and enable parallax-free stitches, and the 20mm f/4 Zero-D Shift trades a bit of width for calmer perspective and filter friendliness; owners of the 12mm f/2.8 can unlock practical movements with the Magic Shift Converter for ultra-wide rise/fall on mirrorless bodies. Medium-format shooters get the Laowa 17mm f/4 GFX Zero-D as a rectilinear cornerstone (often paired with shift platforms), while APS-C and Micro Four Thirds have stellar natives: Laowa 9mm f/2.8 Zero-D (APS-C) is the cult, fast ultrawide for night streets and mountain huts, and the MFT duo of 7.5mm f/2 and 10mm f/2 Zero-D bring bright, compact coverage for stabilized walk-throughs and astro-landscapes. For environmental detail and creative perspective, the Laowa 15mm f/4 1:1 Wide Angle Macro (with mini shift) lets you place tiny subjects in their habitat without bending lines—brilliant for fungi, river-edge textures, and close foreground storytelling; longer Laowa APO macros (58/90/100mm 2×) double as “intimate landscape” lenses with apochromatic discipline and silky micro-contrast. Image priorities across Laowa’s landscape lineup are disciplined: “Zero-D” designs keep straight lines honest, low lateral CA preserves clean snow lines and branches, coatings resist veiling flare and onion-ring speculars around the sun, and compact housings balance on lightweight heads; close-focus specs encourage bold foregrounds, and filter-friendly fronts or slim square holders keep CPL/ND/GND workflows practical. Technique turns good glass great—level the camera before minor keystone tweaks, work around f/5.6–f/8 for peak acuity (stack focus instead of choking past ~f/11), lock exposure and white balance for stitches and pano shifts, rotate around the entrance pupil (or shift rather than pan) to avoid parallax, and use a remote/ES to suppress vibration; carry a slim CPL to tame water/stone glare (use sparingly on ultrawide to avoid patchy skies), a 3–6 stop ND for silky water and cloud motion, and soft GNDs or exposure bracketing for bright horizons. The practical kit recipe is simple—anchor with 15mm f/2 Zero-D for speed and astro, add 12mm f/2.8 Zero-D or the tiny 11/4.5 or 9/5.6 FF RL for broader sweep, keep the 12–24/5.6 for flexible framing, and bring 15/4.5 or 20/4 Zero-D Shift when perspective control is the brief; on APS-C run 9/2.8 Zero-D as your rectilinear ultrawide, on MFT pair 7.5/2 (or 10/2 Zero-D) for bright, compact coverage, and round it out with a Laowa APO macro for intimate landscapes. Whether you’re straightening glass-and-steel skylines, threading tight historic interiors, layering misty mountain ranges at sunrise, or stitching blue-hour panos over water, the best Laowa lenses for landscape photography deliver the geometry, flare control, and featherweight handling that make big scenes read elegant, immersive, and intentional straight out of camera.