Cine Lens Gift Guide: From Beginner to Professional

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The 2024 holiday season is here! Jabari shares which cine lens to gift the filmmaker in your life, whether they’re searching for their first one, or looking to get the Hollywood look for a fraction of the price.

  • 0:00 Intro
  • 0:24 Investment Lenses: For Aspiring Cinematographers
  • 2:52 Personal Set: For the Working Filmmaker
  • 4:16 Anamorphic Lenses: For the Cinema Purist
  • 5:36 Budget Lenses: Their First Cinema Lenses
  • 7:32 Which to Buy?

Comments

4 Comments

Hugo T.
2 months ago

Are you getting any feedback from Zeiss about when the Nano Primes will be available with RF mounts?  Also, is the delay due to an economic conflict about the electronic transfer of information between the lens and the camera, i.e., is this a problem with Canon?

P.S.  I would be okay with purely mechanical lenses.  The electronic information wouldn't do much for me.

Manzell L.
2 months ago

ZEISS' webpage states that the ZEISS Nano Prime lenses are initially available for Sony E-mount lens mount.  Their brochure for the lenses do state that it will also be avaialble for additional lens mounts in the future using their IMS interchangeable mount system.  However, as of the date/time of this reply, we have not seen any additional information regarding the release date for ZEISS Nano primes in other lens mounts, nor any information specific to the Canon RF lens mount.  Once we receive information regarding a release date or when the lenses are set to be sent to distributors/retailers, we will update our website with the information, along with any avaialble estimated arrival date received by the manufacturer.

Jim O.
2 months ago

Why wasn't the newly-announced Canon hybrid lens included in this report?

Ken A.
2 months ago

Those aren't cine lenses.  Canon calls them 'hybrid' lenses, which are photo lenses with a de-clicked aperture and an improved AF motor.  Look at the 1:00 mark in the video and note that the Canon hybrids don't match any of those qualities:  they're not mechanically matched (they don't even all share the same 67mm filter thread as the zoom has an 82mm), they don't have lens gears, and they don't have matching focus rotation length.  There's more to a being 'cine' lens than that, but these points are the most obvious.  Canon does make cine lenses though, look up Canon CN-E to see them.