Fujinon lenses caters for budding cinematographers

Cinema lenses are designed to achieve a shallow depth-of-field and a beautiful bokeh. But to do this they are typically large, heavy and expensive. The MK series brings cinema capabilities to lower-cost movie production using E-Mount digital video cameras with APS-C sensors.

MK lenses address the problem that most interchangeable lenses are designed primarily for shooting still images and prone to focus shift and optical axis shift while zooming.

Simon Becker, national sales manager at Fujinon, said, “The rapid growth in popularity of content produced by emerging cinematographers and corporate users has expanded the use of cinema and digital photographic cameras. This has boosted demand for high-performance cinema lenses, which are ideal to achieve a shallow depth-of-field and bokeh.” 

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The FUJINON MK18-55mm T2.9 (MK18-55mm) is a standard zoom lens with the focal length of 18-55mm will be released in March.

A FUJINON MK50-135mm T2.9 (MK50-135mm) is also in development to give coverage over the frequently-used focal length range from 18mm to 135mm.

The lenses feature three rings to enable manual and independent adjustment of focus, zoom, and iris (aperture), all with the gear pitch of 0.8M (module). The focus ring can rotate fully up to 200 degrees for precise focusing.

MK lenses features:

• Advanced edge-to-edge optical performance and low distortion.
• Integrated colour temperature with other FUJINON CINE lenses in the HK / ZK / XK series to simplify colour grading.
• T2.9 speed across the entire zoom range which facilitates the increasingly popular style of bokeh effect with shallow depth-of-field. This also eliminates the need to re-adjust lighting, thereby contributing to shortening shooting time.
• The front focusing group of lens elements and the zooming group of lens elements are driven independently from one another to suppress focus shift while zooming which eliminates the need to re-focus after zooming in or out. The optical and mechanical approach means there is no time lag as seen in an electrical control system.
• The use of the front inner-focusing system controls lens breathing (change of angle of view during focusing), to achieve smooth focusing
• The lenses have a macro function that allows shooting close-up to broaden the range of scenes that can be covered with one lens.
  • MK18-55mm: Minimum Object Distance*8 of 0.38m (wide end)
  • MK50-135mm: Minimum Object Distance of 0.85m (wide end)