News has broken of a new rehoused lens set hitting the market! Ancient Optics – hot on the heels of their Kowa Full Frame primes and Canon FD 50-300mm zoom lens project – have teamed up once again with the team at GL Optics to rehouse the Minolta SR Rokkor lenses for use in cinema projects.
IronGlass Amber PL Set Review | Soviet Lenses on Steroids!
If you’ve watched the review above, you should now be pretty familiar with what IronGlass Amber PL Set is all about, but for those who want to know more, here is some additional info about each lens in my set in case you are not familiar with them. My set consists of 6 lenses:…
MY TOP 3 GO-TO “Vintage Lenses For Video”
I’ve reviewed so many vintage lenses in the last few years, but which ones do I actually use on daily basis? The video above and info below should finally answer this question. My top 3 most used vintage lenses are: Helios 44-2 58mm F2 Canon FD 50mm F1.4 Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 35mm F2.4 I…
WIN 1 of 3 COOL-LUX Focus Gear Sets | CLOSED
It has been a while, but VFLV giveaways are back with something special. I’ve teamed up with COOL-LUX to bring you an opportunity of owning a set of COOL-LUX FOCUS GEARS. If you aren’t familiar with these 360 degree follow focus gears, check out my in-depth review here. There are 3 sets to be WON….
SANKOR 16F Anamorphic Lens REVIEW
I’ve very excited to finally share this post with you guys. Some time ago I came across an Instagram user SAMAMORPHIC, who produces some of the most beautiful, atmospheric and dreamy anamorphic content. Eventually we got taking and I found out that Sam uses a Sankor 16F (an anamorphic lens that is new to me)…
ILLUMINA (LOMO) Super35 High Speed Cine Lenses
A fellow filmmaker & my go to guy when it comes to info on Russian lenses, Tomasz Wolski aka Film Cyfeowy has recently written a wonderful article for the Polish Filammking Magazine “FilmPro” (check out their Website & Facebook). The article is about Illumina MK-II Cine lenses from LOMO, a legendary producer of film cameras…
Vintage Lenses For Video | HOW IT STARTED
Back in a day when I used to do only photography, I wouldn’t touch anything other than Canon EF lenses, L series whenever possible. The only non-Canon lens I had and still have is my lovely Sigma 15mm fisheye. When I first started using DSLRs for video, the only additional lens I bought was Canon…
