Lenses: My Likes, Dislikes, and the Return of the Cooke Speed Panchro
Every lens has a feel and a purpose. Some reproduce the world perfectly, some imperfectly. They all have their...
A Season of New Cinema Lenses for Filmmakers
Are we right in the middle of a cinema lens revolution? I am talking about cinema lenses priced for...
Lightweight Zeiss lens for professional film productions
Imagine a zoom lens covering everything from 21 to 100mm, made for the Super 35 format, and which is...
A 50mm Sony for shooting video
The Planar T* FE 50mm F1.4 ZA is what Sony calls a quintessential wide-aperture 50mm “normal” lens. With a...
Zeiss: aspherical lenses for mobile video
The new accessory lens kit for the iPhone, jointly developed by Zeiss and ExoLens, is the first aspherical lens...
Zeiss VR ONE Plus: from virtual cinema to a drone’s “cockpit”
Zeiss introduces their new VR ONE Plus Virtual Reality Headset at E3, and confirms that this second-generation mobile VR...
360º Video Report #6 – Annette Tindall – Zeiss VR ONE Head Mounted Display
Zeiss have being making high-end lenses and optics for over 160 years. What they don’t they don’t know about...
Zeiss Lens Gears: turn camera lenses into cinema lenses
With Zeiss Lens Gears you can turn camera lenses into cinema lenses in a flash. This is one of...
New 18mm Zeiss Batis for Sony E-mount
The new Zeiss Batis 18mm f/2.8, which Zeiss calls 2.8/18, expands the family of full-frame lenses for Sony cameras...
Location Interview Lighting Tips: HMI Lights & Looking into the Lens
I recently shot a series of location interviews that will be used as the narrative backbone for a client’s...