The Zeiss Standard Speed Prime 12mm T2.1 Mk. II is a legendary wide-angle lens that has long been a staple in professional cinematography for its exceptional sharpness and compact form factor. Part of the renowned Standard Prime family, the Mark II version features improved mechanical housing and refined T-star (T*) anti-reflective coatings to minimize flare and enhance contrast. Designed primarily for Super 35mm film and digital sensors, this lens offers a classic, natural aesthetic that avoids the heavy distortion often associated with extreme wide-angle glass. Its small physical footprint makes it an ideal choice for tight interior locations, handheld configurations, and vintage-style POV shots where a precise, distortion-free perspective is required.
Key Features:
Wide 12mm Focal Length: Provides an expansive field of view, perfect for architectural shots and immersive close-ups.
Fast T2.1 Aperture: Offers excellent low-light performance and consistent exposure across the Standard Prime set.
Refined Zeiss T Coatings:* Advanced multi-layer coatings ensure high contrast and minimize ghosting or internal reflections.
Ultra-Compact Design: Extremely lightweight and small, making it perfect for gimbals, drones, and constrained shooting environments.
Minimal Geometric Distortion: Engineered to maintain straight lines even at the edges of the wide-angle frame.
Classic Zeiss Color Science: Calibrated to match seamlessly with the 16mm, 24mm, 32mm, and 50mm Standard Primes.
Robust PL Mount: Features industry-standard mechanical reliability for precise focus pulls and professional camera compatibility.
Cost: 8.800 EUR
Sell Price: 10.000 EUR
Joachim Zunke
zunkejoachim@googlemail.com
+1 3232035855
Los Angeles, California
March 2nd 2026
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The ARRI Signature Prime Set of 6 Lenses (18, 25, 35, 58, 75, and 95mm) represents the pinnacle of modern large-format optics, offering a unique “organic” aesthetic that balances cutting-edge precision with a gentle, natural rendering. Designed to cover sensors up to 46mm, these lenses are engineered with magnesium barrels for a lightweight yet robust build, making them ideal for both studio configurations and mobile camera rigs. The Signature Primes are celebrated for their creamy, smooth bokeh, exceptionally low distortion, and a fast T1.8 aperture across the set, providing cinematographers with a consistent look that features flattering skin tones and a timeless, three-dimensional character that remains sharp without ever feeling clinical.
Key Features:
Large Format Coverage: Specifically designed to cover the full-frame and large-format sensors of cameras like the ARRI Alexa 35, Mini LF, and Alexa 65.
Consistent T1.8 Aperture: Every lens in this 6-lens set maintains a fast T1.8 stop, ensuring uniform exposure and shallow depth-of-field control across all focal lengths.
Detachable Rear Filter Holder: Features a unique magnetic rear filter holder, allowing cinematographers to easily customize the look with vintage glass, nets, or creative filters.
Advanced LPL Mount: Utilizes the Large Positive Lock (LPL) mount for superior stability and communication of LDS-2 metadata for VFX and post-production.
Lightweight Magnesium Design: Engineered for maximum durability and thermal stability while remaining significantly lighter than traditional cinema primes.
Natural Skin Tones and Soft Bokeh: Optimized to produce a gentle, cinematic roll-off and rounded highlights with minimal chromatic aberration.
Virtually Zero Distortion: Advanced optical engineering ensures straight lines remain straight, even at the 18mm wide-angle end.
Cost: USD $95,000
Mahmoud Alnabhan
mahmoudalnabhan11@gmail.com
+971545591943
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Feb 27th 2026
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Includes:
Cooke Panchro FF 18mm T2.2
Cooke Panchro FF 21mm T2.2
Cooke Panchro FF 25mm T2.2
Cooke Panchro FF 32mm T2.2
Cooke Panchro FF 40mm T2.2
Cooke Panchro FF 50mm T2.2
Cooke Panchro FF 65mm T2.4 (Macro)
Cooke Panchro FF 75mm T2.2
Cooke Panchro FF 100mm T2.6
The Cooke Panchro/i Classic FF set is a modern reimagining of the legendary Speed Panchro lenses from the 1920s. This set of 9 primes (18mm to 100mm) is engineered to cover Full Frame sensors while preserving the vintage “Cooke Look”. The set is designed for cinematographers who want the soul of vintage glass combined with the reliability of modern mechanics. Each lens is color-matched to the rest of the Cooke family, ensuring seamless intercutting. Most lenses in this series feature a fast T2.2 aperture, though the longer focal lengths like the 100mm (T2.6) and the 65mm Macro (T2.4) vary slightly to maintain optical performance.
Key Features:
Optimized for image circles up to 46.3mm, making them compatible with ARRI Alexa LF, Sony VENICE, and RED V-Raptor.
Provides a signature warmth and “smoothness” that flatters faces and handles highlights naturally without being overly clinical.
Built-in metadata sensors provide frame-by-frame data (focus, iris, and depth-of-field) to the camera, which is essential for modern VFX and virtual production.
Features Cooke’s Academy Award-winning focus mechanism for smooth, backlash-free movement and expanded focus scales for precision pulling.
Standardized 110mm front diameters and consistent gear positions across the set allow for rapid lens changes without moving follow-focus motors or matte boxes.
The 65mm lens doubles as a macro prime, allowing for extreme close-ups without needing specialized adapters.
Update April 30th 2026:
Added 18mm to the set.
This was originally posted as a set of 8 lenses (21 to 100mm), seller Anthony Pawley sent pictures of an 18mm single to be added to the set and offered a set of 9 lenses.
Edited descriptions and pictures. URL slug wasn’t changed.
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Update April 22nd 2026:
Adam requested to change price to MAKE AN OFFER.
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Cost: TBD
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Anthony Pawley/SCC Mail
anthony@southerncrosscameras.com
+61 414 761 781
Australia
2-27-2026
Includes:
2x Namuk Case
The Cooke S4 series is the definitive “workhorse” of modern cinema. Known for establishing the “Cooke Look,” these lenses provide a smooth, organic aesthetic that is widely considered the most flattering for human faces. They were designed to bridge the gap between technical perfection and artistic character, offering high resolution and contrast without the clinical, “sterile” feel of some modern optics.
Key Features:
The “Cooke Look”: Famous for “creamy” skin tones, a warm color palette, and a gentle transition from sharp focus to a smooth, painterly background (bokeh).
Super 35 Coverage: Designed specifically for the Super 35mm format, making them compatible with almost all professional cinema cameras.
T2.0 Speed: A fast and consistent T2.0 aperture across the set (excluding the 300mm) allows for excellent low-light performance and shallow depth-of-field.
Cam-Style Focus: Features a specialized mechanical design that provides a silky, backlash-free focus pull with 300° of rotation for extreme precision.
Color Matched: Every lens in the set is meticulously calibrated to ensure consistent color and contrast, eliminating the need for heavy grading to match shots.
Optical Control: Superior management of flare, distortion, and spherical aberration, ensuring the image remains clean even when shooting wide open.
Mechanical Reliability: Built with a rugged, scratch-resistant finish and standardized gear positions for quick lens changes on set.
Cost: $50K
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Luca Salvi
+32 499 83 64 45
lucasalvicinematography@gmail.com
2-23-2026
The ARRI Ultra Prime series, co-developed with ZEISS, remains one of the most versatile and widely used sets of cinema lenses in the industry. Known for their “clean” look—marked by high contrast, sharpness, and minimal distortion—they serve as the standard-speed counterpart to the high-speed Master Prime series.
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Key Features and Benefits
Vast Focal Range: Offers one of the widest selections in the industry, ranging from the extreme wide-angle 8R (T2.8) to the 180mm (T1.9) telephoto.
Superior Optical Precision: Delivers high resolution and contrast across the entire Super 35 frame, even when shooting wide open or at close-focus distances.
Floating Elements: Utilizes an internal focus design with floating elements to eliminate “breathing” (image shift when focusing) and ensure sharpness at every distance.
Mechanical Consistency: Most lenses in the set feature a uniform 95mm front diameter and consistent gear positions, allowing for lightning-fast lens swaps without moving matte boxes or follow-focus motors.
Color Matching: Perfectly color-matched to other ARRI/ZEISS lenses, ensuring a seamless look when cutting between different focal lengths or lens series.
Compact & Lightweight: Their relatively small footprint makes them ideal for handheld work, gimbals, and Steadicam configurations.
Technical Snapshot
Feature Specification
Sensor Coverage Super 35
Standard Aperture T1.9 (most focal lengths)
Aperture Range T1.9 to T22
Lens Mount PL Mount (LDS versions available)
Front Diameter 95mm (Standard); 114mm/134mm/156mm (Select Wide/Tele)
Cost : asking price for the UP set is 22k
Santa Monica, California
Benjamin Strang
443-875-5896
strang.benjamin@gmail.com
Prices
Justcinemagear: 27,900 – 24,950 – 19,500
newlifecine: 22,000 –
AI: In the current second-hand market, a used Arri/Zeiss Ultra Prime Set of 5 lenses generally sells for between $28,000 and $33,000 USD.
While individual lenses can vary in price based on focal length (with wider and longer lenses typically fetching a premium), these sets are almost always sold in standard “kits” of five.
The Leica Summilux-C (now under the Leitz Cine brand) represents the pinnacle of high-speed prime lenses for cinematography. This set of 8 lenses is engineered to deliver a “creamy sharpness” that captures subjects with a natural, organic feel while maintaining extreme clarity and technical precision. Originally honored with a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, these lenses are a favorite for high-end feature films and commercials due to their unique combination of speed, compact size, and telecentric optical design.
Key Features:
T1.4 High-Speed Aperture: Offers exceptional low-light performance and ultra-shallow depth of field, allowing for dramatic subject separation from the background.
“Creamy Sharpness” Rendering: Delivers high contrast and resolution on fine details while maintaining a soft, natural, and flattering look for human skin tones.
Patented Focus Mechanism: Features an expanded focus scale in the most critical range (close focus), providing 300° of rotation for high-precision focus pulling.
Telecentric Optical Design: Minimizes chromatic aberration and ensures illumination stays consistent from the center to the extreme corners of the frame.
Compact & Lightweight Build: Averaging just 1.7 kg (3.7 lbs) and 142mm (5.6″) in length, these are among the smallest high-speed primes, making them perfect for gimbals, drones, and handheld rigs.
Zero Breathing: Engineered to eliminate “breathing” (shifts in the field of view) when racking focus, ensuring clean, professional transitions.
Titanium PL Mount: Uses high-grade titanium for a lens mount that is significantly stronger and more thermally stable than standard steel.
Matched Physical Specs: Uniform 95mm front diameters and aligned gear positions allow for lens swaps without needing to move matte boxes or follow-focus motors.
Cost: $120,000
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Asif Limbada
asiflimbada@icloud.com
+1 647 786 6722
2-18-2026
The Kowa 6mm T2.1 Cine Lens is an ultra wide-angle prime designed for Super 35 sensors, delivering expansive coverage with minimal distortion and strong edge-to-edge sharpness. Known for Kowa’s classic optical character, this 6mm lens produces a pleasing balance of contrast and natural color rendition while maintaining a compact, lightweight form factor ideal for handheld, gimbal, and drone work. Its fast T2.1 aperture allows for reliable low-light performance and creative depth control, making it a versatile choice for narrative filmmaking, commercials, music videos, and immersive visual storytelling where dramatic perspective is key.
Key Features:
Ultra wide 6mm focal length for dramatic perspective
Fast T2.1 aperture for low-light performance
Super 35 coverage
Compact and lightweight housing
Minimal distortion for its class
Consistent cine-style focus and iris gearing
Durable all-metal construction
Smooth, precise manual focus control
Cost: 7000 GBP
February 17, 2026
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Lee Patel
lee@lightningmedia.co.uk
+44 (0) 7966 100600
London
Also listed as part of larger 11 lens set. Please visit the following link:
COOKE S7i FF PLUS SET OF 11: 16,18,21, 25,27,32,40,50, 75,100,135
Includes:
Fitting Case
The Cooke S7/i Full Frame Plus set of six lenses provides cinematographers with a versatile range of focal lengths, including the ultra-wide 16mm, the wide-angle 21mm and 27mm, the versatile 40mm “standard” wide, and the powerful telephoto capabilities of the 75mm and 135mm primes. Designed specifically to cover the emerging trend of full-frame cinema camera sensors up to VistaVision, these lenses deliver the legendary “Cooke Look,” characterized by a smooth, round, and organic dimensionality with a soft, pleasing fall-off. Each lens in this set is engineered to provide peak optical performance at full aperture with superior control over flare, distortion, and spherical aberration, ensuring that high-resolution digital sensors maintain a cinematic, skin-tone-friendly aesthetic across the entire focal range.
Key Features:
Full Frame Plus Coverage: Designed to cover sensors up to 46.31mm image circle, including RED V-Raptor, ARRI Alexa Mini LF, and Sony VENICE 2.
Consistent T2.0 Aperture: Fast T2.0 stop across the entire set for excellent low-light performance and consistent exposure when swapping focal lengths.
/i Technology: Equipped with Cooke’s digital metadata system to record vital lens settings like focus, iris, and depth-of-field for VFX and post-production.
The “Cooke Look”: Renowned for high contrast and sharpness while maintaining a natural, warm, and smooth aesthetic that is exceptionally flattering for faces.
Standardized Mechanics: Uniform focus and iris gear positions allow for quick lens changes without repositioning follow focus motors.
Circular Bokeh: Nine-leaf linear module iris assembly ensures beautiful, natural-looking out-of-focus highlights.
Cost: EUR 45.426
Price: EUR 54.000 FOB
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Alexandru Dorobantu/SquadRental
ate@squadrental.com
+40724283005
Rumania
2-16-2026
Also listed as part of larger 11 lens set. Please visit the following link:
COOKE S7i FF PLUS SET OF 11: 16,18,21, 25,27,32,40,50, 75,100,135
Includes:
Fitting Case
The Cooke S7/i FF Plus (Full Frame Plus) series represents the pinnacle of modern large-format cinematography, designed specifically to cover full-frame sensors up to a 46.31mm image circle (including RED V-Raptor/Weapon 8K, ARRI Alexa LF, and Sony VENICE). These primes deliver the legendary “Cooke Look”—a warm, organic aesthetic characterized by smooth focus fall-off, natural skin tones, and a gentle roll-off in the highlights—while providing the clinical precision required for high-resolution 8K digital sensors.
Key Features:
True T2.0 Aperture: Provides consistent speed across almost the entire focal range (except the 300mm), ensuring lighting setups remain unchanged when switching lenses.
The Cooke Look®: Offers a unique, “dimensional” image quality that feels more human and less “digital” than many modern competitors.
Integrated /i Technology: Captures frame-by-frame lens metadata (aperture, focus, depth-of-field, etc.), which is vital for streamlining VFX and post-production workflows.
Award-Winning Focus Mechanism: Features a cam-style focus movement that provides smooth, backlash-free adjustment, with 270° of rotation for high-precision pulls.
Unified Physical Specs: Most lenses in the set share a common 110mm front diameter and standardized gear positions, allowing for rapid swaps without adjusting matte boxes or follow-focus motors.
Comprehensive Focal Range: A massive selection of focal lengths (from 16mm to 300mm) that are color-matched to other Cooke series like the Anamorphic/i and Panchro/i Classic.
Cost: 37,855/ sales: 45,000
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Alexandru Dorobantu/SquadRental
ate@squadrental.com
+40724283005
Rumania
2-16-2026
14mm Canon EF 2.9
24mm canon FD SSC aspherical 1.5
35mm canon FD SSC 2.1
45mm FD-X (yashica) 1.5
55mm Canon FD SSC aspherical 1.3
85mm Canon FD SSC Aspherical 1.3
135mm Canon FD 2.1
Fitting CaseThe Canon FD SSC Aspherical lenses (often referred to as “K-35s in a different housing”) are legendary vintage optics from the 1970s. These lenses represent a pinnacle of glass engineering, being among the first to successfully incorporate aspherical elements into mass production. They are highly sought after by cinematographers for their ability to deliver a “vintage-modern” look: sharp and high-resolution, yet full of character and organic texture.
Key Features:
Aspherical Elements: Reduces spherical aberration and distortion, providing exceptional sharpness even when shot wide open.
S.S.C. (Super Spectra Coating): Delivers excellent color balance and minimizes ghosting/flaring while maintaining a warm, nostalgic “golden” tint.
Full Frame Coverage: Naturally covers large-format sensors (like the Alexa LF or Sony Venice) without vignetting.
Fast Apertures: The “Aspherical” trio (24mm, 55mm, 85mm) allows for incredible low-light performance and shallow depth of field.
K-35 DNA: They share the same optical designs as the Academy Award-winning Canon K-35 cinema lenses, offering a similar look at a fraction of the cost.
Pleasing Bokeh: Features a distinct, smooth out-of-focus rendering that feels more “painterly” than modern clinical lenses.
Cost: 80,000 euro
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luke menges
lukemenges@me.com
London
2-16-2026
