Prime Circle Lense

[Ben Scott]

Fair enough. Just seems odd that a lens everyone wants to try but nobody seems to have had their hands on aside from your good self has sold 20 full kits to a top rental house despite nobody knowing if there's a market for them - you think all parties involved would be shouting from the rooftops and incentivise people to go check them out.

[Francesco Bonomo]

Fair enough. Just seems odd that a lens everyone wants to try but nobody seems to have had their hands on aside from your good self has sold 20 full kits to a top rental house despite nobody knowing if there's a market for them - you think all parties involved would be shouting from the rooftops and incentivise people to go check them out.

Ben, I totally understand the skepticism, and I'm sure the parties involved (i.e. rental houses) will indeed have a chance to show those lenses properly when they arrive. I don't have a horse in this race, I'm not even in the market for buying lenses (I usually rent), I was just writing about my (too short) first-hand experience. I'm sure there will be plenty of tests and videos online once they start shipping them.

I apologize again for not wanting to name the "big" one I'm referring to, it's not like I've signed a NDA or something, it's just that I don't want to put myself in a position where I may cause problems to them. I hope you understand.

[Ben Scott]

To be honest I hope they're everything you say they are so it's a case of me moaning that I can't get my hands on them to test them than being sceptical ;)

[Peter.G]

Has anyone had their hands on these yet? any feedback?

-P

[Evin Grant]

I played with them briefly at NAB. Meh, not real cinema primes just pimped ZFs. Better to go with CP.2s or Standard Speeds.

[Marlon Torres]

Aren't ZF's and CP2s optically identical?

[Nick Morrison]

Aren't ZF's and CP2s optically identical?

Yes the optics are the same, but CP2s are supposed to get the "best" glass at the factory...and they have many more iris blades (14 as opposed to 9?)...so the BOKEH on CP2's is much rounder.

I'm not a huge fan of super neat round bokeh, but there you have it.

[Karolien Mennes]

Price lists as received today from Prime Circle. Sorry about the size...I was constrained by the upload size limit. Let me know if there's a way to get around that or you can PM me with your e-mail address and I'll send the originals.

Maybe this is a better example, ith prices in all currencies.

http://lockcircle.com/primecircle_xt/buy/

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[KETCH ROSSi]

Here, so you avoid the need to go thru all the steps outside REDUSER just to find out pricing, I have not tested this lenses, and even so I sen them briefly din't even piked them up as I was carrying load of stuff when I came across, and then never got back to it, I do believe that for the price this could actually serve some one well, just need ot see image quality they produce and if the markings are properly done.

[Karolien Mennes]

Here, so you avoid the need to go thru all the steps outside REDUSER just to find out pricing, I have not tested this lenses, and even so I sen them briefly din't even piked them up as I was carrying load of stuff when I came across, and then never got back to it, I do believe that for the price this could actually serve some one well, just need ot see image quality they produce and if the markings are properly done.

Contact your Italian collegue Filippo Chiesa, he knows the creator and the lenses...