Zeiss has been very busy within the cinema lens section forward of the Cine Equipment Expo in Los Angeles this weekend. Along new Horizon 2x Anamorphic lenses for full-frame cameras, Zeiss unveiled Panoptes 65 lenses that, as their title suggests, duvet large-format 65mm cinema digicam sensors.
“Aimed toward a various vary of productions, those lenses lift the hallmarks cinematographers have lengthy relied on and are available to be expecting from Zeiss, mixed with a in moderation balanced aesthetic for the 65mm structure: herbal colours, forgiving pores and skin textures, mild focal point fall-off and a silky bokeh,” Zeiss explains.
Its new set of Panoptes 65 lenses covers 10 focal lengths, starting from 25 to 180mm, every that includes a quick T2.2 aperture. The entire lenses recreation the similar basic design and unified positions for iris and focal point rings, plus most commonly standardized entrance diameters. The 35, 40, 45, 55, 70, 90, 100, and 135mm primes have 95mm entrance diameters, whilst the 25 and 180mm lenses have 114mm entrance diameters.
Lengths vary from 144 to 165 millimeters (5.7 to six.5 inches), and weights are round 1.6 to two.2 kilograms (3.6 to 4.8 kilos).
As Zeiss explains, it has a wealthy historical past of medium- and large-format imaging, each nonetheless and movement image alike. Zeiss has made many lenses for Pentacon Six, Hasselblad 500 sequence, Contax 645 cameras, and extra.
“Famend for his or her gorgeous symbol rendering, Zeiss has regularly complex optical design, lens coatings, and precision production for massive symbol circles. Zeiss advantages from this deep revel in in controlling aberrations, colour, and bokeh at medium structure scale to create gorgeous lenses for the trendy 65 mm cinema structure, turning in a particular, emotionally enticing glance that meets probably the most not easy requirements in top rate huge structure cinematography,” the corporate explains.
Many well-liked cinema cameras have the benefit of 65mm-format protection, together with the Fujifilm GFX Eterna 55, Arri Alexa 265, Blackmagic Design Ursa Cine 17K 65, or even full-frame and S35 cameras. Panoptes 65 lenses, which function a 59.9mm symbol circle, totally duvet all of the cameras above.
Zeiss guarantees well-balanced optical personality with excessive answer, clean distinction, herbal colour, mild focal point fall-off, and silky bokeh. The corporate provides that distortion and chromatic aberrations are minimized.
The Zeiss Panoptes 65 lenses at the moment are to be had to preorder. Lots of the lenses are $20,950, whilst the 25mm and 180mm primes are $25,500. For the ones protecting ranking at house, the whole set of 10 primes would set filmmakers again $218,600. Those are much more likely to be condo choices for many creators, as with many high-end cinema lenses.
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