There May Be a New Canon XC15 4K Camera Around The Corner
With IBC 2016 and Photokina just around the corner rumors are flying in about a possible Canon XC10 successor – the XC15. A few days ago we posted about …
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Samyang’s Summer 2016 “Blockbuster Season” Ends with New 14mm f2.8 AF Full-Frame Lens
You may have heard of Samyang lenses, especially if you shoot video and prefer to keep more money in your pocket. Samyang lenses (also sold under the names Bower, …
Samyang Announce New 20mm T1.9 Full-Frame Wide Angle Lens
Samyang continues their Summer Blockbuster announcements with a new super-fast 20mm f/1.8 wide-angle lens and 20mm T1.9 cine prime version. The two new lenses join the recently announced manual focus …
Samyang Announce New Superfast 35mm f/1.2 and 35mm T1.3 Cine Lens
Budget optics maker and indie filmmaker favourite, Samyang continue their Summer Blockbuster announcement series by announcing two new APS-C lenses for mirrorless cameras. The new manual focus 35mm f/1.2 ED AS …
Nikon Strike Back with a Stunning New AF-S NIKKOR 105mm f/1.4 ED Lens
Nikon just unveiled their latest crown jewel – an optical wonder sporting the most advanced levels of craftsmanship – the new AF-S NIKKOR 105mm f/1.4E ED lens is a bit of …
Venus Optics to Debut Laowa “Distortion-Free” 12mm f/2.8 Ultra-Wide Angle Lens Soon
You may remember back in March this year we reported on a pretty “bokehlicious” telephoto lens from Asian optics makers Venus Optics called the Laowa 105mm f2 for Sony E-mount; the lens uses …
Samyang Adds New 135mm T2.2 Cine Prime to XEEN Family
Korean budget lens maker Samyang just announced a brand new 135mm T2.2 prime lens, which is the latest addition to their XEEN budget cine lens range. The XEEN lenses are pretty much …
Sony Announce a New Full-Frame FE 50mm f1.4 ZA Prime Lens
Sony announced a new full-frame Planar T* FE 50mm F1.4 ZA lens for E-mount cameras like the Sony A7sII and A7RII in yet another cooperation with legendary optics maker …
Canon C300 Mark II & C100 Mark II Huge Price Drops plus Other Awesome 4th July Deals
I am quite fond of the new C300 Mark II, which isn’t so new anymore, but given the fact that Canon tends to upgrade their upper echelon Cinema EOS …
Metabones Adds Native AF and Smooth Iris to EF Mount Speed Boosters and Smart Adapters
Without a double the Metabones Speed booster and Smart adapters have been the most popular adapters for video shooters in the last few years. Their optical and build quality …
New Leica 12mm f1.4 Wide-Angle Lens for Micro Four Thirds
Panasonic just dropped their newest addition to their lens line-up – the super-fast wide-angle Leica DG Summilux 12mm f1.4 ASPH for Micro Four Thirds mount bodies. The Leica designation …
SLR Magic Announce New Full-Frame Sony E Mount 35mm f1.2 and 75mm f1.4 Cine Lenses
Budget cine lens maker SLR Magic have been on a roll this year announcing new lenses left and right. At NAB 2016 they announced some new sweet anamorphic lenses, …
SLR Magic APO-HyperPrime Cine 25mm T2.1 and 85mm T2.1 Lenses Test Footage
SLR Magic announced at NAB 2016 that the company will be adding two new lenses to their APO-HyperPrime lens range, which already includes the APO-HyperPrime 50mm T2.1. The two new …
Meet the New Affordable Canon 18-80mm T4.4 Compact Servo Zoom & the All-Purpose ME200S-SH Camera
Announced at NAB 2016, the new Canon 18-80mm T4.4 EF compact servo zoom lens is set to fill the void left between large & expensive servo zoom lenses and …
Canon Introduces new EF-M 28mm Macro STM Lens with Built-in LED Ring
Canon may be slow to add 4K video recording anything other than their top Cinema EOS cameras and top end DSLR’s such as their 1DC and 1D X Mark II, but …
New Bokkelux Cine Prime Lenses Enter the Affordable Cine Lens Market
If there is one trend at this year’s NAB Show, other than HDR of course, is affordable lenses. Canon announced a brand new 18-80mm servo zoom for about $5K, …
New Samyang 14mm 2.8 and 50mm 1.4 FE lenses for Sony E-mount with Autofocus
The South Korean budget lens maker Samyang just announced their first ever full-frame lenses with autofocus – a 14mm f2.8 and 50mm f1.4 for Sony E mount. This is …
Cine-vise your Zeiss Loxia, Milvus and Otus with Lens Gear Rings
Zeiss stills lenses are extremely popular with indie filmmakers from the older and fully manual C/Y Distagons to the more modern Loxia and Milvus lenses. However, as with any non-cine …
NAB 2016: Veydra 19mm T2.2 Mini Prime For Sony E-mount; 2X Mini Anamorphic and Wide Project Discontinued
The Veydra Mini Prime project was a huge success making high quality cine prime lenses accessible to a vast pool of budget filmmakers using Micro Four thirds and Sony …
NAB 2016: SLR Magic Anamorphot 1.33x – 40 is a New Anamorphic Adapter for MFT and Super 35/APS-C
The good people at SLR Magic have been working hard on supplying the indie filmmaking world with not just affordable and well-built lenses for video but also innovative accessories …