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At Photokina 2018 legendary lens maker Zeiss, announced a new 40mm Close Focus Batis lens and a full-frame camera. Yep, even lens makers are making full-frame cameras. As crazy as it sounds, the new ZEISS ZX1 has a fixed 35mm f2 lens made by Zeiss (no surprises
The show floor at Photokina 2018 was officially opened earlier this morning as the new announcements started to pour in shortly after. At the photo industry trade show in Cologne, Sigma has announced five new lenses from their famous Art series as well as Sports and Contemporary
Premier Munich-based cine lens and accessories manufacturer P+S Technik brought a few new lenses to IBC 2018 and also some from their existing range. They’ve been servicing the cinematography industry for quite some time with stellar anamorphic lenses, however now they are expanding their Anamorphic range with a
September is quite a busy month for trade shows in the photography and pro video/Film/TV equipment industry with major exhibitions such as IBC 2018 in Amsterdam, which is sadly already behind us, there is the smaller CINEC in Munich (happening right about now) and then next week
At IBC 2018 we stopped by the Cooke Optics stand to chat with Cooke Optics Chairman Les Zellan about their new Anamorphic/i Full-Frame Plus range and their latest 65mm Macro and 21mm Panchro lenses. The first lens in the new Anamorphic/i Full-Frame Plus lineup is the 50mm
Cine lenses, and in particular new cine lenses announcements, continued to dominate the industry and Sigma had their say with three new additions to their High Speed Cine Primes lineup. The new 28mm T1.5, 40mm T1.5, and 105mm T1.5 will be available in PL, E, EF and
Spirit Lab Optics is a new company with big aspirations to make full-frame high-end optics available to independent producers and cinematographers looking for Master Prime quality for a fraction of the price. This is what founder Ray Chang told me when we spoke at IBC 2018. Full-Frame
Now that the new “true 4K” ARRI Alexa LF digital cinema camera is shipping to rental houses and production companies we are starting to see some tests and footage shot with the newest “large format” beast that ARRI unveiled earlier in the year at the BSC Expo
Tamron are well known for budget zoom lenses and it appears they have just announced a new and compact 17-35mm F/2.8-4 Di OSD ultra-wide-angle zoom lens for full-frame DSLR cameras. Carrying the company’s Model A037 designation, the new 17-35mm is not to be confused with the already
Announced back in May this year, the Zeiss Supreme Primes range include 13 new high-end lenses covering all the basis from the ultra-wide 15mm to the 200mm telephoto end, purpose built for large format sensors of the latest (and future) digital cinema cameras offering 4K+ resolutions such
I bet a lot of you are familiar with the Zeiss LWZ.3 or as it is probably more widely known – the Zeiss 21-100mm T2.9-3.9 lightweight zoom. For many documentary shooters equipped with a Sony FS7, C300 II or ARRI AMIRA, the Zeiss LWZ.3 is a standard
Sony announced the highly anticipated Sony FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS large aperture super-telephoto prime lens in E mount just a couple of days ago catering to high-end sports and wildlife photographers. Sony promises brilliant image quality, extraordinary focusing speed and precision while also boasting the lightest weight in
Samyang has some really good news today for all you photographers out there with Canon DSLRs – the company just announced their latest addition to their autofocus lens range – the AF 85mm f1.4 EF prime lens. The new Samyang AF 85mm f/1.4 EF covers full-frame sensors
Samyang have just announced their latest lens – a “tiny, but mighty” 24mm f/2.8 FE autofocus lens for Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras. The new Samyang AF 24mm f2.8 FE (also sold under the Rokinon brand in the US) appears to be positioned as “a perfect wide-angle lens
If there is one thing that Canon is known for – that’s making excellent lenses. And they’ve been doing this for donkey’s years; Canon lenses are the most popular lenses in the photo world and when it comes to the mighty 70-200mm range, their L-series variants are
Of the many truths regarding filmmaking equipment, one remains certain – high-quality cine lenses are not cheap, and they will never be. For a premium piece of glass with top-notch build quality and all the fancy focusing bells and whistles, expect to pay upwards of a few
Sigma have been killing it with their awesome Art series lenses, whose optics have migrated to their highly successful High-Speed Cine Primes and Zoom lenses. On the photo side of things, not that long ago Sigma announced a bunch of new lenses in their high-quality Art range,
You may recall the NiSi F3 Cine Primes from NAB 2018 we reported on in this post here, and while the cine lens marketplace continues to become more and more crowded as more and more companies announce new lenses, this eventually not only drives prices down –
Tamron have been pretty good at making one-stop-shop zoom lenses for events and general photography however, recently Tamron announced the launch of a high-speed, full frame 28-75mm f/2.8 standard zoom lens for Sony E-mount, amply titled – the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD (Model A036). The
Venus Optics, who’ve been making a splash with their Zero-D (or zero distortion) wide angle lenses for Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras and of course the tiny Laowa 7.5mm f2 for MFT (which is perfect for drones and the Panasonic GH5S when flying gimbals, mainly due to its
