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Lenses
The glass that decides what the picture looks like, including the cheap vintage primes worth more than their price.
50 products · 6 groups · 23 makers
Anamorphic
- Atlas Lens Co Orion 40mm T2 anamorphic — The 2x anamorphic indie features actually shoot on
- SIRUI Venus 50mm T2.9 1.6x anamorphic — Full-frame anamorphic, the cheapest there is
- SIRUI Venus 35mm T2.9 1.6x — The wide end of the cheapest full-frame anamorphic set
- SIRUI Saturn 35mm T2.9 1.6x anamorphic — Carbon-fibre anamorphic, full-frame coverage
- Laowa Nanomorph 35mm T2.4 1.5x — Anamorphic small enough for a gimbal
- Laowa Nanomorph 50mm T2.4 1.5x — The Nanomorph normal — still small enough to fly
- Great Joy 35mm T2.9 1.35x — A 1.35x squeeze — anamorphic character at a student price
Cine primes
- Cooke Panchro/i Classic 32mm T2.2 — The Cooke look, in the cheapest Cooke there is
- DZOFilm Vespid Prime 4-lens kit — Full-frame T2.1 primes, PL and EF mounts
- ZEISS CP.3 50mm T2.1 — Full-frame cine prime, interchangeable mount
- Vazen 40mm T2 1.8x — The strongest squeeze made for Micro Four Thirds
- Samyang XEEN CF 24mm T1.5 — Carbon-fibre cine prime, full-frame coverage
- Rokinon Cine DS prime bundle — Geared manual primes — most people’s first cine set
- SIRUI Nightwalker T1.2 cine prime set — Three fast Super 35 primes for the price of one lens
- Meike 25/35/50/75mm T2.1 cine prime set — Four matched primes under what one costs elsewhere
Cine zooms
- Canon CN-E 18-80mm T4.4 — Servo zoom with autofocus — documentary in one lens
- Fujinon MK 18-55mm T2.9 — Parfocal Super 35 zoom, under a kilo, E and X mount
- Fujinon MK 50-135mm T2.9 — The MK set’s long half, same gearing and front
- DZOFilm Catta Ace 35-80mm T2.9 — Full-frame zoom, light enough to hand-hold
- DZOFilm Pictor Zoom 14-30mm T2.8 — The wide Pictor — interiors and car work
- DZOFilm Pictor Zoom 20-55mm T2.8 — A parfocal Super 35 cine zoom at an indie price
- DZOFilm Pictor Zoom 50-125mm T2.8 — The long half of the Pictor pair
- Laowa Ranger S35 28-75mm T2.9 — A light parfocal cine zoom
- Tokina Cinema ATX 11-20mm T2.9 — Wide cine zoom for Super 35
Vintage glass
- Pentax Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 — Warm, radioactive, beautiful wide open
- Nikon AI-S manual prime — Cheap, metal, de-clickable — the budget cine set
- Contax Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.7 — Zeiss rendering for the price of a filter
- Jupiter 9 85mm f/2 — Soviet Sonnar copy — creamy, slightly soft wide open
- Minolta MC Rokkor 58mm f/1.4 — Glowing highlights wide open, pin-sharp stopped down
- Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 — Warm, cheap, and everywhere — a first vintage prime
- Helios 44-2 58mm f/2 — The swirly Soviet prime — a look for the price of a meal
Stills primes
- Canon RF 85mm F1.2 L USM — The close-up lens people buy a body for
- Canon RF 50mm F1.2 L USM — The portrait-adjacent normal
- Sony FE 50mm F1.2 GM — A stop and a half past normal
- Sony FE 35mm F1.4 GM — The prime that lives on an FX3
- Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG DN Art — Close-ups, and the cheapest flattering 85
- Viltrox AF 35mm F1.2 LAB — Autofocus f/1.2 at a third of the price
- Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Zero-D — Ultra wide with no barrel distortion
- Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG DN Art — The reportage prime
- Viltrox AF 56mm F1.2 LAB — The APS-C portrait prime that embarrassed the brands
Stills zooms
- Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II — Long lens coverage without a second unit
- Canon RF 24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM — The RF standard zoom, stabilised
- Canon RF 15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM — Canon’s wide zoom for the C70 and R5 C
- Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II — The standard zoom most FX bodies wear
- Sony FE 16-35mm F2.8 GM II — The wide end of the same set
- Sigma 14-24mm F2.8 DG DN Art — Wide, rectilinear, for interiors and skies
- Sigma 28-45mm F1.8 DG DN Art — The first full-frame f/1.8 zoom
- Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN II | Art — The full-frame standard zoom, half the GM’s price
- Sigma 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM Art — The 18-35’s long partner, same stop
- Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM Art — The zoom that behaves like a set of primes
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