Hi Art. We have never spoken or chatted but I have been a long time follower of your CML posts. Your extensive knowledge has been a great help to me in my quest to learn anything optical . So thanks f

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 thought there would be a flood of messages about this but no… My first reaction was one of horror, not Cooke! But it’s not a problem 😊 Les Zellan (Chairman), Robert Howard (Chief Executive Officer)

Hi CML Group, I have a job coming up that we are shooting with the Canon CN-E Primes We need a pair of zoom lenses for a few shots that need to match the Primes. We are considering these 3 Canon Zooms

Info from an article just read.. Perhaps this may add to the solution.. Physicists solve 2,000-year-old optical problem by Bob Yirka , Phys.org (a) Geometry of the problem and notation used for the di

A Mexican scientist has found a solution to the spherical aberration problem, that even Newton (or Wasserman & Wolf) couldn't figure out: https://petapixel.com/2019/07/05/goodbye-aberration-physicist-

Hello everyone. The other day I was asked if I know the proper pronunciation of the Hoge Lens. I have never heard of this before much less know how to pronounce it. I can't find much information about

It's finally here! Long nights and hours of screening are finally done! Marco Werner and I created a unique lens shootout between modern glass and famous vintage lenses, shot on our RED DSMC2 MONSTRO

Hi all, I'm having conversations with a director for shooting a series of dream sequences. I've suggested that one of the elements we can rely on is tilt-shift lenses. I will do tests with him, howeve

Hi All, I’ve got some old split Diopters that have got 1-2mm chips on the critical dividing edges that I hoped I might have taken out by grinding the whole edge down by 2mm or so. Does anyone have exp

Hi guys, I've already asked some of you guys but since nobody could help me (Duclos, TLS, Gecko) i'm asking here. Anybody know where i can get a rear glass element for an old Zeiss B-speed 18mm T1.4 l

Have you ever known this kind of diopter clamp-on?

https://www.provideocoalition.com/quick-look-signature-primes/ Art Adams Cinema Lens Specialist Our Burbank office has moved! You can now find us at 3700 Vanowen Street, Burbank, CA 91505. ARRI Inc. 3

I was struck whilst we were doing the FF lens tests how the highlights of some lenses varied a lot so I decided to look a bit closer. When I was setting up the tests, I was bearing in mind the Various

We've just announced our new Brilliant² 1 Stop Rota-Pol Polarizer for 4x5.65 matte boxes. https://www.lindseyoptics.com/polarizers/brilliant-1-stop-rota-pol-circular-polarizer-4x5-65-138mm/ When you'r

Looking for advice and experiences regarding using diopters to soften backgrounds outdoors. NOT to do closeups on a product. The DP is planning to use two full frame RED 8K Monstros, but they are expe

Hello all, On my current show we’re using uncoated Zeiss Super Speeds. Can anyone explain the process of removing the coating from a lens? I’m told it takes several weeks. Andy Hoehn First Assistant A

Hi All, Does anyone have info on what lenses Bradford Young used on When They See Us? Looks like a mixture of anamorphic and spherical. Thanks, Stuart Brereton DP, LA

https://twitter.com/garretharkawik/status/1140723236080095232?s=21 This post on Twitter asks whether a lens with significant vignetting can show increased DOF at the darker edges of the image. I can s

I want this now 😊 https://petapixel.com/2019/06/13/this-software-can-undistort-faces-at-the-edges-of-wide-angle-photos/ cheers Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS EU based cinematographer +31 637155076 www.gboyle.nl