Individual Lenses for Hire:

Pancolar 80 – Classic portrait lens!

Pancolar 80 – Classic portrait lens!

Zeiss Pancolar 80mm f1.8 – Classic portrait lens

A truly classic portrait lens. Perhaps the classic?

The 80mm f1.8 Pancolar is a coveted and much loved closeup lens with excellent performance and a wonderful look. Capable of throwing your background beautifully out of focus to isolate the subject and achieve the fabled ‘3D effect’, or ‘Zeiss pop’ for which the manufacturer has become famous. Stunning bokeh. Great micro-contrast. Pretty hard to find.

Our two manifestations of this divine lens have recently had their delicate aperture mechanisms totally rebuilt, gears serviced and lubed with synthetic helicoid grease, glass cleaned, and focus collimated by senior ‘Lens Doctor’ Eddie Houston, so they really are as awesome as the glorious day they descended from heaven.
“A real legend” - MFLenses.com

Supplied with M42/EOS mount adapter for 5D/7D/C300/Scarlet/BMPC4K

£25 day / £100 week

Pancolar 80mm f1.8

 

 

Zeiss T* 28mm f2 ‘Hollywood’

Zeiss T* 28mm f2 ‘Hollywood’

Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 28mm “Hollywood” f2.0

From the movies, through the stills era, and back again.
This superior lens design has ruled for over 40 years & counting!

The “Hollywood” nickname comes from the original manifestation of this optical formula – a Zeiss cinematography lens. For us mortal folks, it was also manufactured for Contax, Nikon, Pentax and the Rollei SL35 system as far back as 1970. Consisting of 9 elements in 8 groups, the 2/28 design implements a floating element, resulting in better closeup performance. Minimum focus is 25cm. Excellent flare rejection. Fast too.

A great workhorse in a useful focal length that for some reason has proved tricky for designers. There just aren’t that many truly great 28mm lenses out there. It’s OK though. There is this one.

Made in West Germany, with T* multicoating, natürlich.
Supplied with ‘Rayqual/CameraQuest’ mount adapter for 5D/7D/C300/Scarlet.

£25 day / £100 week

Zeiss T* Distagon f2.0 “Hollywood”

1972 Takumar 15mm Rectilinear!

1972 Takumar 15mm Rectilinear!

SMC Takumar 15mm f/3.5 (Rectilinear ASPHERICAL)
Very rare. Very beautiful. VERY WIDE angle. NOT fisheye.

Chief designer Prof. Erhard Glatzel designed this super-wide distortion-free miracle as a ‘distagon’ prototype for Zeiss in 1972, but it was too expensive for mass production. Only Asahi Takumar had the technology to produce the required floating aspherical element back then, and they built just 400 examples to prove it. This is one of them.

Tests have shown its performance to be superior to Leica & Zeiss 15mm optics. Revered by everyone from architechtural to astronomical photographers, it is now proving itself as a lens with great cinematic qualities on the Canon 5D. Asahi are said to have shared their legendary Super-Multi-Coating formula with Zeiss, which became T*, in return for this design. Please don’t break it or I will have to kill you…

More history & technical spec of this fascinating lens.
With inbuilt UV, Skylight, Yellow & Red filters.

Flightcased with ‘Rayqual/CameraQuest’ mount adapter for 5D/7D/C300/Scarlet.

£60 day / £240 week

 

 

Individual Lenses – Full Price List

Individual Lenses – Full Price List

Most of our lenses are included as part of a set, so we don’t usually split them up.
If an individual lens is available, it may be hired at the following day / week prices.
Be aware though, it’s usually more expensive this way, and your lens may still become unavailable, if it is subsequently booked by someone else as part of a set.

Lenses shown in black are not in a set, so have no restrictions on availablity.

  • 15mm Asahi Takumar f/3.5 ‘Rectilinear’ _______________________ £60 / £240
  • 18mm T* Zeiss Distagon f/4.0 ________________________________ £30 / £120
  • 20mm Zeiss mc Flektogon f/2.8 _______________________________ £25 / £100
  • 24mm Kiron Kino f/2.0 _______________________________________ £15 / £60
  • 25mm T* Zeiss Distagon f/2.8 ________________________________ £30 / £120
  • 28mm Kiron Kino f/2.0 _______________________________________ £15 / £60
  • 28mm T* Zeiss Distagon f/2.0 ‘Hollywood’ ____________________ £25 / £100
  • 28mm T* Zeiss Distagon f/2.8 ________________________________ £15 / £60
  • 28mm Asahi Pentax f/3.5 ‘Perpective Shift’ ____________________ £20 / £80
  • 35mm T* Zeiss Distagon f/1.4 ‘Superspeed’ ___________________ £40 / £160
  • 35mm MIR f/2.0 ______________________________________________ £15 / £60
  • 35mm Zeiss mc Flektogon f/2.4 _______________________________ £20 / £80
  • 35mm T* Zeiss Distagon f/2.8 _________________________________ £20 / £80
  • 50mm T* Zeiss Planar f/1.4 ‘Superspeed’ ______________________ £20 / £80
  • 50mm SMC Pentax f/1.7 ______________________________________ £15 / £60
  • 50mm Zeiss mc Pancolar f/1.8 ________________________________ £15 / £60
  • 60mm T* Zeiss Makro-Planar f/2.0 ‘Macro’ ____________________ £20 / £80
  • 80mm Zeiss mc Pancolar f/1.8 ________________________________ £25 / £100
  • 85mm T* Zeiss Planar f/1.4 ‘Superspeed’ ______________________ £25 / £100
  • 85mm Jupiter f/2.0 ___________________________________________ £15 / £60
  • 135mm T* Zeiss Sonnar f/2.8 _________________________________ £20 / £80
  • 135mm Zeiss mc Sonnar f/3.5 ________________________________ £15 / £60
  • 200mm T* Zeiss Tele-Tessar f/3.5 ____________________________ £20 / £80
  • 300mm T* Zeiss Tele-Tessar f/4.0 ____________________________ £20 / £80

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