DZOFilm Completes Full Frame Cine Prime Set with 21mm and 40mm Wide Angles
Aiming to round out their collection of Vespid Full Frame Cinema Prime lenses, DZOFilm has announced a pair of wide-angle lenses. The lenses are a 21mm T2.1 and a …
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What’s a Hybrid Anamorphic Lens?
Anamorphic imaging is known for its very distinct style and some specific optical effects that the lenses create. It’s this charm that makes them so loved. Usually this does …
RED V-RAPTOR vs ALEXA Mini LF Side-by-Side Comparison Test
What is the best camera in Hollywood? It’s a great question and if we are going to try and answer it we might as well narrow it down to …
Sirui Launches IndieGoGo Campaign for Jupiter Full Frame Cine Lenses
Lens manufacturer Sirui has launched a new crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo for its Jupiter Line of Cinema Lenses. And judging by how quickly the campaign breezed by its initial …
DZOFilm Expands Cine Lens Lineup with 14-30mm T2.8 Zoom
High-speed cinema zooms seem to be all the rage these days, as lens manufacturers seek to create adjustable cinematic primes that have all the bokeh of a fast lens, …
Tokina Stretches Their Fast Line of Cinema Primes Out to 180mm
Tokina has made some waves over the last few years with its line of fast Vista Prime Cinema lenses. While the other lenses in the Vista Prime family top out …
Cooke Optics Launches S8/i Full Frame Spherical Lenses
Cooke Optics has just announced the launch of the S8/i Full Frame (FF) series of seven lenses for full frame production with an all-spherical design and T1.4 throughout, these …
Can a $500 Cine Lens Stack Up Against a $26,000 Master Prime?
Cinema lenses come in all shapes and sizes. They also have a huge range of prices. Nowadays, you can pick up some cinema lenses for dirt cheap and own …
How and Why to Shim Your Cine Lenses
Cinema lenses are an entirely different world with various mounts and customizations. You can truly refine a lens to be absolutely perfect for your system – if you are …
Pros and Cons of Investing in Cine Lenses
Glass is always where you should invest. Cameras come and go quickly since the advent of digital, but lenses tend to last you for years or even decades. Cine …
Most Popular Cine Lenses – the Ultimate Overview
Cinema lenses from companies like Zeiss, Panavision, and Cooke don’t get as much attention online as the affordable stills and modified/rehoused cinema glass that many of us use from …
DZOFilm Pictor 20-55mm vs Angenieux Optimo DP 16-42mm vs Sigma 18-35mm Lenses
Lenses are like glasses; if you’re seeing the world through a bad set, everything you see is going to look like crap. Fortunately, the DZOFilm Pictor 20-55mm, Angenieux Optimo …
Five Must-Have Lenses for Your Canon C200
Canon impressed all when they released the EOS C200 Cinema Camera. It did internal 4K Raw – and it was (relatively) affordable! Sure, it cut down on some features …
Everything You Need to Know About the Zeiss Supreme Primes
In the last two centuries, the name of Carl Zeiss has been always associated with top notch optic quality. One of the latest addition in their various lenses sets …
How to Choose the Right Cinema Lens for Your Next Project
There is a slew of factors you need to consider when choosing the right cinema lens for your next film project. Depending on what piece of glass you tend …
Skybeam Digital Shows Off a Set of Extremely Affordable and Compact Cine Lenses
Among the multitude of products showcased at NAB 2018, there was a particular set of prime lenses that caught the eye of indie filmmakers. Billed as the smallest cine lens in …
IBC 2016: Leica Introduces Its Full-Frame M 0.8 Cine Lenses
At the start of IBC 2016, the announcements regarding cinema lenses continue to roll out left and right. Leica just unveiled the new Leica M 0.8 cine lenses bringing the iconic …
Cooke Optics Revive Their Classic Speed Panchro Cine Lenses
Classic cine lenses have always been in great demand among seasoned cinematographers and DPs around the globe, not only for the sturdy build quality and exquisite imagery they produce …