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If you haven’t checked out this month’s issue of @theicgmag (available to read for free on their website), you’re missing a great article on vintage lenses and their popularity among filmmakers practicing at the highest level of the

Congratulations to Darius Khondji AFC, ASC on his Oscar nomination for Bardo! Filmed on Alexa 65, Bardo required a diverse collection of optics to translate Alejandro Innaritu’s vision to such a large sensor. We always strive to optimize covera

Zero Optik may be best-known for rehousing a wide variety of vintage photo and cine lenses, but our very first product was a PL-mounted pinhole lens and inspired the very name of this company. When it debuted in 2016, our pinhole lens was a response

Much has been made of Canon’s 1960’s rangefinder glass, particularly the 50mm f/0.95 “Dream Lens” but a set of vintage rangefinder primes that has flown under the rehousing radar until now is Leica’s Summicron-M series f

In the realm of vintage full-frame lenses, 100mm f/2.0 primes are not hard to come by. Canon offered a beautiful example as early as 1959 and Nikon’s 105mm f/1.8 was a staple among photojournalists throughout the 1980’s. In most instances

One of Zero Optik’s founding principles is the pursuit of outlandish lens projects. We started with an all-metal PL-mounted pinhole lens, built high-speed 65mm-format primes, and converted lightweight catadioptric (mirror) telephotos into tiny

We’ve been quiet on social media the last several months while we build out our new manufacturing facility and develop another slate of exciting lens projects to share later this year. We had to break that radio silence today because two specta

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