Ancient Optics
Ancient Optics is a cinema lens manufacturer with a focus on vintage optics. The company preserves and curates legendary optical designs for the modern cinematographer. Its extensive testing protocol insures all its lenses have the unique optical characteristics the company wishes to bring to the community. Ancient Optics’ most recent projects – Petzvalux, Statera, Tamashii, and Series 65 – provide filmmakers with new and exciting tools to create their images.
ARRI Rental
ARRI Rental’s in-house lens program began with the Prime 65 series, launched with the ALEXA 65 camera in 2015. Featuring a sensor the same size as a 65mm film frame, lenses that covered the format were in short supply, which led to ARRI Rental developing further solutions.
Subsequent collaborations with top cinematographers resulted in the Prime DNA series, also for 65mm, comprising diverse vintage optics in new lens housings. Their immediate success led to a DNA LF series for large format.
Next, ARRI Rental developed the ALFA anamorphics, again evolving a detuned look through direct collaborations with leading DPs. Having acquired the capability to manufacture new housings for the DNA LFs, ARRI Rental used the same techniques to re-engineer vintage Moviecam lenses, transplanting the 1970s glass into modern lens casings.
The most recent addition to ARRI Rental’s offering is the HEROES collection, which offers small sets of quirky optics that supplement the main lens set on a production. HEROES launched with the LOOK lenses, featuring a look dial for on-set detuning, and T.ONE lenses, with a super-fast aperture of T1.0.
Cooke
It is no secret that Cooke lenses have been revered among cinematographers since the company was founded in 1893. This was pioneered by the legendary vintage Speed Panchro series, which became the lens choice for Hollywood from the 1920s through to the 1960s. The craftsmanship of the glass was so admired that the Panchros have been re-housed for successive generations. 
Fast forward to today, and you’ll see Cooke’s lens line-up to fulfil every filmmaker’s need. As well as PL glass, this now includes lenses for mirrorless cameras with the SP3 series. The SP3s are inspired by the original Speed Panchro but reimagined and optimised for full-frame mirrorless sensors. 
Innovation is in the Cooke DNA, which is especially apparent with the S8/i FF series: a spherical lens precisely tuned for digital sensors but with all the character of ‘The Cooke Look’. Cooke continues to develop today, without compromising on integrity.  
Leitz
With their expansive offering of Leitz Cine lenses, Ernst Leitz Wetzlar offers cinematographers more options for looks and formats than almost any other manufacturer. With seven different sets of primes and a pair of full frame zooms, Leitz has you covered. 
The Leitz ELSIE prime lenses offer a unique character for a wide range of productions through a blend of subtle field curvature and gradual falloff with dynamic flares wide open. The Leitz HUGO series offers the most compact T1.5 full frame lenses available with the character of Leica’s iconic M photography glass. The 25-75mm and 55-125mm Leitz ZOOMs complement all Leitz lenses for a complete shooting package. For industry-leading performance, the Leitz PRIMEs T1.8 bring edge-to-edge clarity and detail with gorgeous, soft skin tones.
Recent titles using Leitz lenses include: Horizon: An American Saga, Only Murders in the Building, Lee, The Substance, and Nowhere.
One Stop Films
One Stop Films have always believed that cinematography plays one of the most pivotal roles in storytelling through film. We have searched far and wide, globally to source the best vintage and rare glass for cinematographers to have the right look in order to realise theirs and the director’s vision. One Stop has a huge range of spherical and anamorphic lenses to suit any project for both full frame and super 35.
In 2024, we have added to our collection the Olympus OMs, Konica FF, Cooke FF Anamorphic SF 1.8x, Petzvalux tunable FF, LVX V2 full flare FF and Coral 1.5x Anamorphic. It’s an evolutionary process, and we’re constantly researching and adding to our glass library. 
We welcome DPs to come into One Stop Films and explore our lenses for upcoming projects, with some of the most beautiful optics that will open up a vast expanse of creative choices.
We are committed to the language of cinematography. 
Panavision
Panavision’s rental inventory includes a wide range of legacy and vintage lenses dating back to the 1950s that are available nowhere else, each offering its own unique optical qualities. Vintage anamorphic options include the 1.3x-squeeze Ultra Panavision 70 and Ultra Panatar and the 2x-squeeze B Series, C Series and E Series. Vintage spherical lens series include Super Panavision 70, 65 Vintage and Sphero 65 — all of which offer 65mm-format coverage — as well as Panavision’s Standard Primes, Super Speeds, Ultra Speeds and the legendary Primos, which were introduced in the 1980s. The spherical H Series incorporates vintage glass within modern housings, and the PVintage lens series updates the ever-popular Super Speeds and Ultra Speeds with modern mechanics for greater efficiency on set. Additionally, Panavision’s recently introduced Ultra Panatar II and VA lens series offer vintage-inspired attributes in modern designs built to meet the demands of today’s production and post workflows.
Pixipixel
Whatever the creative and technical requirements of a shoot, rental house Pixipixel has an extensive range of lenses available from its branches in London and Manchester.
The latest additions to its vintage glass selection include the Iron Glass Soviet Rehoused MKII and Olympus OM Zuiko lenses, including all 17 focal lengths in the OM series.
The Olympus OM lenses are unique among vintage lenses for their combination of compact size, uniform f/2.0 apertures, and consistent performance, covering full frame and offering distinct aesthetic qualities comprising vintage and modern – sharp with plenty of contrast with very pleasing bokeh and flares.
These new additions complement Pixipixel’s range of rehoused vintage glass such as the Canon K35s, Nikon AI-S, Mamiya 645s, Kowa Anamorphics, and soon-to-arrive Minolta Rokkor lenses.
Pixipixel’s camera/lighting credits include Netflix’s series Geek Girl and Supacell, Emmy-nominated film Scoop, BAFTA-nominated series Top Boy, Extraordinary, Such Brave Girls, Dreaming Whilst Black, and Heartstopper.
ZEISS
ZEISS cinematography lenses have been advancing the film industry for more than 80 years and have received numerous honours, including three Scientific and Engineering Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Today, around the world, filmmakers choose ZEISS lenses for their productions.
The ZEISS cine lens portfolio includes the Nano Prime, Compact Prime CP.3 and CP.3 XD, Cinema Zoom CZ.2 as well as Supreme Prime and Supreme Prime Radiance – all full frame lenses. The Lightweight Zoom LWZ.3 covers Super 35.
The ZEISS CinCraft ecosystem offers lens data-related services and products for visual effects and virtual production. CinCraft Scenario is a flexible real-time camera tracking system for use in various environments indoors and outdoors, both for live and post application and incorporating lens data for streamlined calibration. CinCraft Mapper provides frame-accurate lens distortion and shading data for compositing and matchmoving.
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