PRIME CIRCLE XT announces Custom Lenses for Canon C300 EF-Mount, PRIME CIRCLE XT lenses are cost effective, comes with Superb optical performances and have Ultra Lightweight design, see some product main features below
PRIME-CIRCLE highlights
- Still photography ZF.2 high-end lenses mets professional cine-style features.
- Superb optical performances for true cinematic images.
- Ultra Lightweight design, engineering and precision grade manufacturing.
- Ergo-Gear, innovative follow-focus gear featuring also handheld ergonomics grip.
- Front Mount with 95mm size mount for professional cinematographers matte-boxes and accessories
- Nikon F-Mount and Canon EF-Mount with the same lens.
- Exclusive SIDE INDEX VIEW (pat.pend.) for easy to read focus/aperture settings – EF Mount only!
- Innovative X-Circle Cine-Lock (pat.pend.) with improved locking mount for cine-style focus work.
- X-Circle Side Index View and Cine-Lock features for Nikon F-Mount coming soon! (pat.pend.)
- Front Mount with circular engraved micro-lines for superior flare and reflection control.
- Full coverage Full-Frame 24×36 with ZF.2 18mm f/3,5
- Side Code Barrel with engraved lens size – immediate lens coding for production crew reports
- PRIME-CIRCLE is designed by a cinematographer on the field to improve shooting quality!
- Cine-Style aperture ring de-clicked and dampened
- Dedicated matte-box with sliding compensating base MAT-BOX) coming soon!
- Custom Flight – Cases in several solutions.
- New 2,8/15mm coming soon.
Press Release
In the last years the HDSLR revolution opened a new choice for the beloved and worldwide diffused Canon EF Mount and later Nikon F lens. Great quality lenses never seen on the video market appears becoming a creative source for filmmakers and videomakers. Everything is changed in the video lens world!
The EF Mount jumped to a second life, and becomed day after day the new “indie” film camera mount, and started the massive digital cinematography age, mixing photography and cinematography in a media thats converging day after day into something we maybe understand better in the next decade.
The PRIME CIRCLE XT project taked off into this innovative vision of shooting movies with an HDSLR and now with a evolved EOS C300 and not so far away with a powerful C500. Nikon is facing seriously to the HDSLR opening the “sensor race”……such a great time! Real cost effective lenses was missing in this new wave of filmmaking or digital storytellers: still-photography lenses, not performing mechanically for filmmaking or real expensive cinematography exotic primes lens.
PRIME CIRCLE is converging the two concepts: great still-photography lenses with the technical vision of cinematograhpy primes to offer a new dimension in shooting moving images.
PRIME CIRCLE XT starts from the ZF.2 lenses built by the most prestigious worldwide manufacturer for still photography lenses
and cine-modded to PRIME CIRCLE to reach improved functionality and shooting ergonomics. The optics has incredible sharpness, contrast and color matching and a magical “bokeh” to design the “emotional” drive into the story: incredible optics design to transfer emotions on the big screen! Your sensor feel more cinematic with this wonderful set of lenses.
PRIME CIRCLE XT lenses has an ultra-lightweight ergo-focus gear for follow-focus, featuring also an extra-grip ergonomic ring for shooters using the camera “on the run” in hand-held focus mode, a Front Mount 95mm standard ring-mount for matte-boxes and cine-style accessories, plus an aluminum cap with clear graphics displaying the lens size and f/aperture.
The PRIME-CIRCLE Front Mount is designed to match exactly the ZF.2 Lens and the circular grooves offers the best solution to prevent internal reflections and flares when using large flat surface optical filters in matte-boxes: a solution used in expensive cinematography primes lenses.
The PRIME-CIRCLE Front-Mount is designed to offer full-frame 24X36 coverage with ZF.2 18mm f/3,5.
The PRIME CIRCLE exclusive X-Circle Bayonet Mount features Side Index View (pat.pend.) for focus and aperture scales on the side of the lens barrel and the sophisticated EF Cine-Lock Bayonet (pat.pend.) for cine-style locking of the lens on the camera.
A real important step ahead to cinematographers demanding for precise follow-focus work with F-Mount and EF Mount cameras.
The PRIME-CIRCLE XT are custom mounted ZF.2 lenses offering “in-house” assembling by professional and passionate technicians. The XT Custom Series also offers a Side Code Barrel displaying with clear graphics the lens size for immediate coding of the lens mounted on the camera!Another solution inspired by cinematography primes!
On movie production sets the lens size has always to be reported into the camera shooting log form, that’s why the lens size is displayed clearly on the side of the PRIME-CIRCLE XT lens barrel. Aperture ring de-click and dampening for a wonderful “shift on the fly” manual exposure control!
Prime-Circle XT offers double choice X-Circle (pat.pend.) bayonet: interchangeable F-Mount and EF Mount in the same lenses set.
An aluminum custom cap with enhanced graphics for front lens size coding and rear professional lens cap is supplyed with the lens.
PRIME CIRCLE XT Custom Lens are available in this focal lengths: 3,5/18mm (Full-fRAME 24×36)), 2,8/21mm, 2,0/25mm, 2.0/28mm, 1,4/35mm, 1,4/50mm, 1,4/85mm, 2,0/100mm Makro, 2,0 50mm Makro
Several different XT PRO Kits will be available with PRIME-CIRCLE custom flight-cases (also hand baggage size) for tough protection during transportation.
An innovative matte-box (MAT-BOX), that covers the 18mm/3,5 angle of view on Full Frame 24X36, featuring Sliding Compensation of ZF.2 lenses will be available soon.
PRIME-CIRCLE XT Custom Lens can be ordered now, delivered worldwide after 3 to 4 weeks.
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