The Angénieux Optimo EZ series, including the EZ-1 (30-90mm) and EZ-2 (15-40mm), is a pair of versatile zoom lenses designed for both Super 35 and Full Frame/VistaVision formats. These lightweight, compact lenses are ideal for documentary, broadcast, and narrative filmmaking, offering the renowned Angénieux cinematic look with a modern, flexible design. Their modular system allows quick conversion between formats by switching the rear optical group, making them adaptable for multiple production needs.
Features
Dual-format capability: Switchable rear groups for Super 35 (S35) and Full Frame (FF/VV) sensors
EZ-1 focal length: 30–90mm in S35 / 45–135mm in FF
EZ-2 focal length: 15–40mm in S35 / 22–60mm in FF
Fast T-stop: T2.0 (S35) / T3.0 (FF), ensuring excellent low-light performance
Smooth bokeh: 9-blade iris for pleasing out-of-focus rendering
Compact & lightweight: Ideal for handheld, gimbal, and drone use
Consistent color matching: Compatible with other Angénieux lenses for seamless intercutting
User-interchangeable mounts: Available in PL, EF, and other options
Rugged construction: Built for professional use with precision engineering
The Arriflex / Zeiss Variable Prime (Variprime) system offers cinematographers a unique and flexible alternative to traditional prime and zoom lenses.
Key Features and Benefits:
Variable Focal Lengths: Provides a range of focal lengths within a single lens housing, offering the convenience of a zoom while aiming for the optical quality of a prime.
High Optical Performance: Designed by Zeiss, known for their precision optics, the Variprimes deliver excellent sharpness, contrast, and color rendition.
Compact and Lightweight: Relative to carrying multiple prime lenses or large zooms, the Variprime system can be more compact and lighter, aiding mobility on set.
Fast Aperture: Often feature relatively fast maximum apertures, allowing for shooting in lower light conditions and greater control over depth of field.
Consistent Image Characteristics: Maintains consistent image quality, color, and distortion characteristics across its focal length range, simplifying post-production.
“Prime Look” with Zoom Flexibility: Offers the sought-after “prime lens look” (e.g., pleasing bokeh, minimal distortion) while providing the quick focal length adjustments of a zoom.
Arri Signature Prime 18mm T1.8
Arri Signature Prime 25mm T1.8
Arri Signature Prime 35mm T1.8
Arri Signature Prime 47mm T1.8
Arri Signature Prime 58mm T1.8
Arri Signature Prime 75mm T1.8
Arri Signature Prime 95 mm T1.8
ARRI Signature Prime lenses are a series of high-end, large-format cinema prime lenses designed for modern digital cinematography. They are known for delivering a distinct, emotionally engaging image with a “timeless look.”
Key Features and Benefits:
Large-Format Coverage: Designed to cover image sensors up to full-frame large format (up to 46mm image circle), making them compatible with various modern cinema cameras, especially ARRI’s ALEXA LF series.
Wide Focal Range and Fast Aperture: A comprehensive set of 16 primes, ranging from 12mm to 280mm, with a fast T1.8 maximum aperture across most focal lengths, allowing for shallow depth of field and excellent low-light performance.
Organic & Emotionally Engaging Image: Produces a unique aesthetic characterized by warm, smooth skin tones, creamy bokeh, and a pleasing, natural focus fall-off that gives subjects heightened presence.
Subtle & Elegant Flares: Designed to manage flares gracefully, creating a soft glow without being overly distracting.
Minimal Aberrations: State-of-the-art optical design minimizes chromatic aberration, distortion, and focus breathing, ensuring a clean and precise image.
Magnetic Rear Filter Holder: A unique feature allowing cinematographers to easily experiment with diffusion, nets, or other materials behind the lens to customize the look without permanently altering the optics.
Robust and Lightweight Construction: Built with durable machined magnesium lens barrels and aluminum gear rings, making them surprisingly light for their size and suitable for demanding on-set conditions.
LDS-2 Lens Data System: Incorporates ARRI’s next-generation Lens Data System (LDS-2) for high data rates and precise lens information, compatible with LDS-1 and Cooke /i Technology.
Signature Prime 21mm
Signature Prime 29mm
Signature Prime 40mm
Signature Prime 58mm
Signature Prime 95MM
Signature Prime 100mm
IMPERIAL
Signature Prime refers to a line of high-end cinema lenses developed by ARRI, a renowned manufacturer of professional motion picture equipment. These lenses are designed for large-format cinematography, offering a unique aesthetic that balances modern technical performance with a “timeless” and organic visual quality.
Key Features and Benefits:
Large Format Coverage: Designed to cover large-format sensors, including full-frame, with image circles up to 46mm, making them suitable for modern digital cinema cameras.
“Timeless” Aesthetic: Delivers a distinctive, film-like look characterized by warm, natural skin tones, open shadows, crisp blacks, and a smooth, attractive bokeh (out-of-focus areas).
Fast Aperture (T1.8): Most lenses in the series feature a fast T1.8 maximum aperture, allowing for shallow depth of field and excellent low-light performance.
Minimal Aberrations: Engineered for minimal chromatic aberration, distortion, and focus breathing, ensuring a clean and consistent image.
Customizable Looks: Features a magnetic rear filter holder, allowing cinematographers to easily add diffusion or other effects to achieve unique and customized visual styles.
Robust and Lightweight Design: Constructed with durable yet lightweight magnesium and aluminum housings for ease of use on set.
ARRI LPL Mount: Utilizes ARRI’s LPL (Large Positive Lock) mount, an open standard designed for larger format sensors and modern digital cameras.
Integrated Lens Data System (LDS-2): Provides high-rate lens metadata for efficient post-production workflows and compatibility with other ARRI systems and Cooke’s /i Technology.
Arri Mater Prime 16mm
Arri Mater Prime 18mm
Arri Mater Prime 21mm
Arri Mater Prime 25mm
Arri Mater Prime 27mm
Arri Mater Prime 32mm
Arri Mater Prime 35mm
Arri Mater Prime 50mm
Arri Mater Prime 75mm
Arri Mater Prime 100mm
The ARRI Master Primes are a highly acclaimed series of cinema prime lenses, co-developed by ARRI and Zeiss. Renowned for their exceptional optical performance, they are a staple in high-end film and television production.
Key Features and Benefits:
Exceptional Speed (T1.3): A consistent maximum aperture of T1.3 across the entire focal range (12mm-150mm) allows for outstanding low-light performance and the creation of beautifully shallow depth of field.
Unmatched Optical Performance: Delivers superior resolution and contrast, even wide open and in the corners of the frame.
Minimal Distortion: Virtually no geometric distortion, ensuring straight lines remain straight.
Reduced Flare and Aberrations: Advanced coatings (T*XP coating) and aspherical elements dramatically minimize flare, ghosting, and chromatic aberration, resulting in clean, true-to-life images.
Virtually No Breathing: Patented Dual Floating Elements technology ensures that the image angle remains consistent during focus pulls, eliminating distracting shifts in composition.
Consistent Color and Contrast: Master Primes are color-matched across the set, guaranteeing a uniform look throughout your production.
Cinematic Bokeh: Incorporate an iris with at least nine blades, producing smooth and natural-looking out-of-focus areas.
Robust and Consistent Mechanics: Built for demanding production environments with precise mechanics and consistent placement of focus, iris, and zoom rings for seamless operation with follow focus and wireless systems.
Lens Data System (LDS): Integrated PL mount with LDS for transferring lens metadata to compatible cameras, aiding post-production workflows.
Covers Super 35 Sensors: Designed to cover Super 35 sensor sizes, ideal for many professional cinema cameras.
Arri Master Prime 16mm
Arri Master Prime 25mm
Arri Master Prime 35mm
Arri Master Prime 50mm
Arri Master Prime 75mm
Arri Master Prime 100mm
Key Features and Benefits:
Ultra-Fast T1.3 Aperture: Allows for exceptional low-light performance and the creation of an extremely shallow depth of field, a hallmark of cinematic imagery.
Superior Optical Performance: Delivers uncompromising image quality with unprecedented resolution, incredible contrast, and natural skin tones.
Consistent Image Characteristics: Designed with virtually no breathing, contrast shift, or color shift between lenses, ensuring seamless transitions when changing focal lengths.
Robust Build & Industry Standard: Feature a durable construction and utilize the industry-standard PL Mount, ensuring broad compatibility with professional cinema cameras.
Integrated Lens Data System (LDS): Provides real-time metadata (focus, iris, zoom positions) to the camera, streamlining visual effects and on-set data management.
The Leica Summilux-C Set of 8 (18mm, 21mm, 25mm, 35mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm) represents the pinnacle of modern optical engineering, offering a consistent T1.4 aperture across the entire range. These lenses are celebrated for their ability to deliver high resolution and contrast while maintaining a creamy, natural focus fall-off and pleasing skin tones. Designed with a telecentric optical path, they minimize chromatic aberration and focus breathing, making them a favorite for high-end digital cinematography. Despite their large-aperture performance, Summilux-C lenses are remarkably compact and lightweight, with most focal lengths sharing a standardized 95mm front diameter and uniform gear positions for rapid lens changes on set.
Key Features:
Consistent T1.4 Aperture: Provides exceptional low-light performance and shallow depth-of-field control across all eight focal lengths.
Compact & Lightweight Design: Most lenses in the set weigh between 1.6kg and 1.8kg, making them ideal for handheld and stabilizer work.
Telecentric Optical Path: Optimized for digital sensors to ensure light hits the pixels at a straight angle, reducing edge shading and color shifts.
Standardized Mechanics: Uniform focus and iris gear positions along with a 95mm front diameter across the set for fast accessory swaps.
Exceptional Color Rendering: Precision-matched across the set for consistent color and contrast, eliminating the need for extensive grading adjustments.
Titanium Construction: Built with a high-strength titanium housing that is highly resistant to temperature changes and physical wear.
High Optical Performance: Delivers excellent sharpness, contrast, and color rendition across the entire Super 35 frame, even at open aperture.
Fast T1.9 Aperture: Enables shooting in low light conditions and achieving shallow depth of field for a cinematic look with pleasing bokeh.
Superior Close Focus Ability: Features floating elements design, ensuring exceptional image quality even at close focusing distances (0.38m / 15″).
Minimal Focus Breathing: Maintains consistent image composition during focus pulls, providing a more polished and professional appearance.
Well-Controlled Distortion and Aberrations: Minimizes geometric distortion and chromatic aberration for clean and accurate images.
Lightweight and Compact Design: Easy to handle and ideal for various shooting setups, including gimbals and handheld rigs (weight: 1.0 kg / 2.2 lbs, length: 91mm / 3.6″).
Robust and User-Friendly: Features large, easy-to-read calibrated scales, uniform front diameter (95mm) and consistent positioning of focus and aperture rings across the Ultra Prime series for quick lens changes.
Color Matched: Designed to match seamlessly with other ARRI and Zeiss lenses, including the Master Prime series, for consistent color rendition.
PL Mount: Compatible with professional PL mount cinema cameras.
Full-Frame Coverage: Designed for large format sensors.
Consistent T2.1 Aperture: Ensures uniform exposure across the lens set.
LPL Mount: Provides a robust and future-proof connection.
German Engineering: Renowned for quality and precision.
Warm and High-Resolution Image: Delivers a pleasing cinematic look.
Dimensional Pop: Gradual falloff draws focus to the center.
Consistent Size and Speed: Facilitates efficient workflow.
Standardized Mechanics: Uniform focus and iris ring positions.
Leica-inspired Bokeh: Creates painterly out-of-focus areas.
Cinematic large format coverage and high speed: Covers sensors from Super 35 up to full frame and beyond, with most lenses at a fast T1.5.
Consistent performance: Uniform coverage, color rendering, aperture, size, weight, and ergonomics across the entire lens family.
Versatile look and gentle sharpness: Delivers crisp images with an organic feel, ideal for various cinematic styles and pleasing for skin tones.
Aesthetic focus fall-off and elegant bokeh: Creates a smooth transition between in-focus and out-of-focus areas, adding depth to the image.
ZEISS eXtended Data technology: Provides comprehensive lens metadata for efficient workflow in post-production.
Compact and lightweight design: Offers easy and comfortable handling on set.
Standardized design: Consistent 95mm front diameter and uniform positioning of focus and iris rings for quick lens changes.
Robust and reliable: Engineered for professional use in demanding production environments.
