a blog by Matthew Duclos
DZOFilm is still a very new company to the motion picture industry. In fact, their initial product launch only dates back to 2019. Nearly one year since the launch of the Super 35 Pictor zooms, the latest full frame zoom lenses from DZOFilm – named “Catta” – have been announced.
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Available specifically for the Fujinon Premista Zooms, Chrosziel’s latest solution brings new functionality and flexibility to an already outstanding line of cinema zoom lenses.
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Lenses are an artist’s paint brushes which means every rental house needs a unique set of brushes to offer their artist clients. ARRI Rental has taken a page out of Panavision’s book by offering something you can’t get elsewhere. They’ve announced two different lines of lenses; the ALFA Anamorphic Primes and a revived set of vintage Moviecam Primes. Let’s take a look at the two new sets and see what ARRI Rental has to offer.
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Irix began offering cine versions of some of their popular photo lenses back in 2019 with the introduction of their 150mm Macro. While this was merely a re-purposing of their photo lens, it came with a promise of more dedicated cinema lenses. The Irix Cine 11mm and 15mm followed shortly which were also re-purposed photo lenses. Shortly thereafter, Irix introduced its first proper cine lens in the form of a 45mm T1.5. It checked practically all of the boxes one would want for such a lens and marked the beginning of them making good on their promise of more cine-specific lenses. We now have the next proper cine prime bringing the Irix Cine line to five lenses.
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Chinese lens manufacturer Zhongyi has ported their photo lenses over to three new cine lens housings, much to the delight of speed freaks given the ultra fast aperture of their new T1 Speedmaster series. I’ll go over a bit of the history, product lines, and future of their latest line of cine lenses.
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Cinematographers can now expand upon their creativity and use of artistic, controlled flares with the newly announced Supreme Prime Radiance focal lengths.
Continue reading “ZEISS Adds Four New SPR Focal Lengths”
Boutique lens manufacturer Tribe 7 has added a brand new 20.7mm prime lens to their current Blackwing line of primes. This brings the Blackwing set to a total of 8 high speed, full frame prime lenses. I never really covered the release of the original Blackwing primes back when they came out – mostly because they were shrouded in so much mystery and there weren’t too many firm details at the time. Since then, Tribe7 has gone on to become a fixture in the world of cinema optics. Let’s take a quick look at their story and the newest prime lens to join the family.
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As of late, the DZOFILM brand is creating quite a buzz in the cinematography community. I can’t recall a lens release that created so many inquiries. Who is DZO? Where did they come from? Are their lenses any good? Let’s explore…
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The Tokina Vista Prime family has expanded again! This time with a 65mm. Let’s take a look, shall we?
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For owners of the ZEISS CP.3 XD, Supreme Prime and Supreme Prime Radiance lenses, the latest firmware is available now which will include minor bug fixes and compatibility improvements.
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Tokina has been adding focal lengths to their Cinema Vista line of high speed, large format cinema prime lenses ever since they were first announced back in 2016. Let’s take a quick look back as well as a peek forward at the Vista Primes.
Continue reading “40mm T1.5 Joins Tokina Cinema Vista Primes”
DZOFILM is creating quite the buzz as of late (pun unintended – read on to understand the pun). They’ve tackled MFT zooms, S35 zooms, and now they have introduced their first Full Frame lenses: Vespid Cinema Primes.
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Just less than a week after announcing the Canon RF mount for their cinema lens line, Irix now announces that they’ve added another two: Nikon Z and Leica L mounts – totaling seven mount options.
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Irix reacted quickly to the popularity of the RF mount which is now available to their entire cinema lens line consisting of 11, 15, 45, and 150mm primes.
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Photographic and cinema lens and accessory manufacturer, Irix, has introduced their new Irix Edge Circular Polarizer SR filter with some clever new technology that sets it apart from regular polarizer filters.
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