Illumina/ELITE Superspeed Set
7mm, 9.5mm, 12mm, 16mm, 25mm T1.3 PL Mount
$ 50.00 to $ 100.00
Most people aren’t familiar with Illumina lenses, which is totally fair.
They aren’t the million-lenses-per-year behemoths of Canon and Nikon, nor are they the storied perfectionists at Cooke or Angenieux. They aren’t the German glass martinets at Zeiss and they aren’t part of the Chinese ‘cinevization’ trend of re-housing still glass.
What they are indeed is this: a workhorse set of s16-sized cinema lenses that are as fast as they are hearty. They sit somewhere in between a set of Mark II and Mark III Zeiss superspeeds; stout, contrasty lenses with a wide variety of applications. They cut nearly interchangeably with Mark II superspeeds and are lightyears beyond older glass. Like Mark II’s, they flare in a reliable fashion and are extremely light and small in comparison to s35/FF glass. Focusing and aperture-wise, geared, smooth steel at the end of the rig will always beat a rubber Rube Goldberg machine sitting on 15mm rods.
We include the 7mm ELITE lens as a matter of choice: the 7mm is really the widest s16 lens you can get without distortion and cuts fantastically with the Illuminas, so much so that we decided to package it with the other 4 rather than the Illumina 8mm. Being able to get just a hair wider makes all the difference sometimes. It’s also as heavy as a CP.2 at just 2/3rd’s the size, which should give you an idea of what this thing is made of: glass, glass and more glass.
If you’re shooting primes on a s16-sized imaging area, the Illuminas are the way to go, hands down.
They aren’t the million-lenses-per-year behemoths of Canon and Nikon, nor are they the storied perfectionists at Cooke or Angenieux. They aren’t the German glass martinets at Zeiss and they aren’t part of the Chinese ‘cinevization’ trend of re-housing still glass.
What they are indeed is this: a workhorse set of s16-sized cinema lenses that are as fast as they are hearty. They sit somewhere in between a set of Mark II and Mark III Zeiss superspeeds; stout, contrasty lenses with a wide variety of applications. They cut nearly interchangeably with Mark II superspeeds and are lightyears beyond older glass. Like Mark II’s, they flare in a reliable fashion and are extremely light and small in comparison to s35/FF glass. Focusing and aperture-wise, geared, smooth steel at the end of the rig will always beat a rubber Rube Goldberg machine sitting on 15mm rods.
We include the 7mm ELITE lens as a matter of choice: the 7mm is really the widest s16 lens you can get without distortion and cuts fantastically with the Illuminas, so much so that we decided to package it with the other 4 rather than the Illumina 8mm. Being able to get just a hair wider makes all the difference sometimes. It’s also as heavy as a CP.2 at just 2/3rd’s the size, which should give you an idea of what this thing is made of: glass, glass and more glass.
If you’re shooting primes on a s16-sized imaging area, the Illuminas are the way to go, hands down.
• ELITE 7mm: t1.3-t16, CLOSE FOCUS: 10” • ILLUMINA 9.5mm: t1.3-t16, CLOSE FOCUS: 10” • ILLUMINA 12mm: t1.3-t16, CLOSE FOCUS: 10”
• ILLUMINA 16mm: t1.3-t16, CLOSE FOCUS: 10” • ILLUMINA 25mm: t1.3-t16, CLOSE FOCUS: 10” • ELITE 7mm Superwide t1.3 • Illumina 9.5mm T1.3 • Illumina 12mm T1.3 • Illumina 16mm T1.3 • Illumina 25mm T1.3
Illumina/ELITE Superspeed Set
7mm, 9.5mm, 12mm, 16mm, 25mm T1.3 PL Mount
$ 50.00 to $ 100.00
Most people aren’t familiar with Illumina lenses, which is totally fair.
They aren’t the million-lenses-per-year behemoths of Canon and Nikon, nor are they the storied perfectionists at Cooke or Angenieux. They aren’t the German glass martinets at Zeiss and they aren’t part of the Chinese ‘cinevization’ trend of re-housing still glass.
What they are indeed is this: a workhorse set of s16-sized cinema lenses that are as fast as they are hearty. They sit somewhere in between a set of Mark II and Mark III Zeiss superspeeds; stout, contrasty lenses with a wide variety of applications. They cut nearly interchangeably with Mark II superspeeds and are lightyears beyond older glass. Like Mark II’s, they flare in a reliable fashion and are extremely light and small in comparison to s35/FF glass. Focusing and aperture-wise, geared, smooth steel at the end of the rig will always beat a rubber Rube Goldberg machine sitting on 15mm rods.
We include the 7mm ELITE lens as a matter of choice: the 7mm is really the widest s16 lens you can get without distortion and cuts fantastically with the Illuminas, so much so that we decided to package it with the other 4 rather than the Illumina 8mm. Being able to get just a hair wider makes all the difference sometimes. It’s also as heavy as a CP.2 at just 2/3rd’s the size, which should give you an idea of what this thing is made of: glass, glass and more glass.
If you’re shooting primes on a s16-sized imaging area, the Illuminas are the way to go, hands down.
They aren’t the million-lenses-per-year behemoths of Canon and Nikon, nor are they the storied perfectionists at Cooke or Angenieux. They aren’t the German glass martinets at Zeiss and they aren’t part of the Chinese ‘cinevization’ trend of re-housing still glass.
What they are indeed is this: a workhorse set of s16-sized cinema lenses that are as fast as they are hearty. They sit somewhere in between a set of Mark II and Mark III Zeiss superspeeds; stout, contrasty lenses with a wide variety of applications. They cut nearly interchangeably with Mark II superspeeds and are lightyears beyond older glass. Like Mark II’s, they flare in a reliable fashion and are extremely light and small in comparison to s35/FF glass. Focusing and aperture-wise, geared, smooth steel at the end of the rig will always beat a rubber Rube Goldberg machine sitting on 15mm rods.
We include the 7mm ELITE lens as a matter of choice: the 7mm is really the widest s16 lens you can get without distortion and cuts fantastically with the Illuminas, so much so that we decided to package it with the other 4 rather than the Illumina 8mm. Being able to get just a hair wider makes all the difference sometimes. It’s also as heavy as a CP.2 at just 2/3rd’s the size, which should give you an idea of what this thing is made of: glass, glass and more glass.
If you’re shooting primes on a s16-sized imaging area, the Illuminas are the way to go, hands down.
• ELITE 7mm: t1.3-t16, CLOSE FOCUS: 10” • ILLUMINA 9.5mm: t1.3-t16, CLOSE FOCUS: 10” • ILLUMINA 12mm: t1.3-t16, CLOSE FOCUS: 10”
• ILLUMINA 16mm: t1.3-t16, CLOSE FOCUS: 10” • ILLUMINA 25mm: t1.3-t16, CLOSE FOCUS: 10” • ELITE 7mm Superwide t1.3 • Illumina 9.5mm T1.3 • Illumina 12mm T1.3 • Illumina 16mm T1.3 • Illumina 25mm T1.3
