SIRUI just launched their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for their new 40mm T1.8 1.33X S35 AF Anamorphic lens. We took this interesting lens for a spin and came up with some solid thoughts about it. A video with some footage samples will be added in the next few days, so please mark this link and come back for additional visual information. It seems there is a new market niche that companies are starting to compete in – autofocus anamorphic lenses. BLAZAR was the first to announce their plan of launching an autofocus anamorphic lens (in case you missed it, watch our APEX review here), but most likely SIRUI will be the first company to bring such a lens to the market. Whoever “the first” may be, apart from being mentioned in books dealing with “anamorphic lenses on a budget”, we as customers, don’t care as long as we get an affordable option that can deliver as advertised. In this regard, BLAZAR did really well with their APEX AF anamorphic lenses (35mm and 50mm), meaning, the sample products that we received seemed to be very promising for S35, 1.33x anamorphic lenses. But what about SIRUI, can their new lens compete? SIRUI Prime Cine Anamorphic lens. Credit: CineD SIRUI 40mm T1.8 AF anamorphic lens By now, we have gotten used to SIRUI coming up with “family names” for their lenses. The last one that we reviewed was the spherical Aurora 85mm lens (review here). However, this SIRUI lens will be the first that...
Published By: CineD - Today