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

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

Hi cml- i'm shooting a tabletop job next week and i've got some tricky constraints. i need to keep an object sharp about 20" from camera but i also need to hold action from around 9" away from the len

CML Glass- I own a vintage Cooke-Varitol 20-100mm lens that Joe Dunton converted to a 40-200 rear-element anamorphic lens in the early 1980’s. It’s labeled as a prototype “patents applied for” lens. I

I shot some concert footage at a show last night using a FS7, metabones ef-e Mk4 and a Canon 70-200 mk2. It was on the shoulder as we were not permitted tripods in the pit! On reviewing the rushes thi

If Metabones E-EF Speed Booster makes a 70mm T2.8 into a 50mm T2, is the resulting Depth Of Field calculated as 50mm T2? Brian Wengrofsky Director of Photography New York City

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

https://vimeo.com/287701353 Received this combo from Arri and wanted to feel it out. This is not really a test as it is more of a taking the lenses out on a spin. It was shot with only natural light h

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

I don’t normally repost press releases, there are lots of other places that do that! However… The range, featuring a T2.3 stop, will offer 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm, 135mm and 180mm lenses; the 50

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

1.4 … do we mean the original High Speed Zeiss T1.3’s ? These were INTENTIONALLY designed to be Low Contrast Wide open … since it was assumed that they would be used in Low level, Contrasty Lighting s

I have done a lot of work shooting IR. There is a fundamental issue with zoom lenses that in most cases make them unsuitable for use with infra red illumination. It comes back to the fact lenses are d

Well, without commenting on the specifics of that post, I DO feel the need to respond to the sexism in the rant. If a woman does well or gets ahead in this business, she probably f***k’d someone to ge

Hi All! Anyone have thoughts on the Zeiss High Speed 1.4 ? This lens have been offered to me for a project but I never have used it. Some friends have told me that is best to use at T4 or T5.6, if ful

Hi all, Am new to using PL mount extenders and was wondering if anybody has any advice on using them. Will be using them on the new Atlas Orion Anamorphics. Main question i guess would be, can I use e

Hi all... I need a short range lighter zoom for a shoot with no time to really test. I’ve used the Optimos DPs and was quite happy, but not sure we can get them so might just be Optimos. Any thoughts

We test a MK lenses zoom from FUJI. You can see video at https://vimeo.com/242824919 Test is published at Cameraman magazine nº 95 (Spanish at the moment) I hope it is interest of you Regards Alfonso