We've made a change to one of our Brilliant² Tray Mount Close-Up Lenses. The +1 Diopter Tray Mount Close-Up Lens now fits in one 4x5.65" matte box slot. By using a higher refractive index glass we wer

The tests that I scheduled for mid-January will have to be delayed until March. This is a drag as it means we have shorter nights but I’m afraid there is no way to avoid this delay. cheers Geoff Boyle

Gary Adcock did some test shots with our Rota-Streak filters and they're in his review on PROVIDEO COALITION: https://www.provideocoalition.com/lindsey-optics-brilliant%C2%B2-rota-streak-filters/ Dwig

If you're interested in tabletop or macro cinematography, you might want to look at a new video made using our Brilliant Macro Attachment Lenses in combination with a Canon Compact-Servo 70-200. This

I guess the subject says it all 😊 These are comparisons that we shot in early November 2018 in Brussels and compare the images from Various Cooke lenses when shot at Full Frame 3:2 on a Venice. It’s i

Our house in Malibu Lake survived the Woolsey fire. However, nearly everything around it burned; our out structures, 7 houses below and 8 houses above. I am finally able to return to the house today w

I have a project that we would like to accomplish the look of a sniper scope from a few hundred yards away looking into a room. Without looking though one, I'm recalling the look of a binocular which

Hello Does Tiffen have an official office in the UK? Looking to get some filters for a teaching day with students. Shooting full frame. Thanks Jonathon Sendall DP, London UK

Hi There Does anyone have a handle on where to rent an endoscopic lens like an innovision 6000 or any other type of endoscopic lens in New York? i need one for a shoot next week in town. Thanks as alw

Hi all, Getting a lot of questions about these so I thought I'd post this here. It took a year and a half and various copies to put this set together but here it is: The Mamiya 645 lens set consists o

I’ve been looking into sources for zoom lenses that have been coated for InfraRed shooting - or how difficult it would be to coat lenses for it. We did a shoot recently using Panasonic LT’s with the I

I have a Canon CN-E 24mm and the focus-marks on the lens are adrift by between 4mm and 10mm (ie depending on where the lens is focused, the rotation-distance on the barrel between actual sharp and mar

We've just introduced our first streak filters, which are the Brilliant² Rota-Streak filters. We've put our new streak filters into the same geared rotating filter tray that we use for our Brilliant²

Hi All- Does anyone know of or have a source for the behind the lens glass filters that were designed for the cooke 18-100mm zoom? I already tried ZGC and Tiffen with no luck. I have the holder but ju

I just recently purchased a Phantom HD Gold and am looking to adapt it for EF mount lenses. No electronics, only manual lenses. I have found an adapter that will adapt a PL mount to EF, but it include

Hey CML, I’m curious if anyone has been using the Angenieux EZ1 30-90 and EZ2 15-40 T2 zooms. There’s surprisingly little footage online. I thought there’d be more interest in them but maybe the Sigma

Hey CMLers - I'm looking for old rental-house catalog lens listings - Clairmont, Otto-Nemenz, Panavision, etc. If anyone has some stocked away from the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s (even older is golden),

Hey Guys and Gals, Does anyone know of any good machine shops in Los Angeles capable of CNC milling a camera accessory I'm looking to create? Thanks! Best, Lee Peterkin

Hi everyone, A while back when the Alexa LF was announced, Steven Morton posted that the flange distance of the LPL-Mount should allow for an adapter to old Nikon stills glass. Has anyone embarked on

Having started to get over the hell of the camera tests I find I need more pain so I’m looking at lens tests in January. I originally intended to test only FF T1.4 or so lenses, however, this excludes