Blog / Resources / Cinematography VMI Publishes Lens Comparison Videos Cinematography, Lenses FINALLY, THE FILMS ARE READY! In a break from traditional demos, VMI invited 40 camera department professionals to come and shoot their own tests across full frame lenses from Cooke, Gecko, Tribe and Sigma on either Sony Venice or ARRI Mini LF. No agendas. No hard selling. Just creative people doing what they do best. See all three films and judge for yourself MAIN FILM: Complete Film with 14 scenes shot with each lens groupset labelled. BLIND FILM: Complete Film with 14 scenes, each in a random order without labelling the lenses. Lenses labelled at the end of each scene. BTS Film: Behind the scenes highlight sequence Absolutely fantastic event, looking forward to the next one. Jasper Alyn Stephens, DP Blind Labelled Film. This is the unlabelled film, where the lenses are masked until the end of each scene – See which you prefer and try and guess which lens is which! Four Full-Frame Lens Sets Four lens sets were chosen with aspirations to the ‘vintage and ‘character’ party, which are reasonably accessible, price-wise and in what we are sure will be popular additions to VMI stock. Sigma Classic Prime Cooke Panchro Classic S3 FF Tribe Blackwing T-tuned Gecko-Cam G35 Vintage ’66 All are now available to hire from VMI. Related articles Ana-more-phic, Navigating Full Frame Anamorphics Cinematography, Lenses Pairing a full-frame sensor with dedicated full-frame anamorphic glass allows cinematographers to utilise their camera’s full resolution without wasting sensor area or cropping away valuable field of view. The visual … Read more Scorpios Offer the Ultimate Hybrid Look Cinematography, Lenses “Incredibly clean. They (Scorpio FFAs) have very little distortion and they’re Full Frame anamorphics.” Paul Cameron ASC By smudging the lines between anamorphic and spherical, manufacturers ServiceVision have created a … Read more Braving the Bloom of Canon V35s, a Conversation with Robin Fox Cinematography, Lenses, Lighting DOP Robin Fox has shot documentaries, commercials, and last year his first feature film. The project was for the Wilkinson Sword and Atlassian Williams F1 Team’s “Partners in Smooth” campaign, … Read more
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