XEEN Lense 85 mm
Professional Cinema Lense . The Samyang XEEN 85mm T1.5 PL is a fast full-frame cinema prime lens ideal for portraits and selective focus in cinematic productions.
This fast T1.5 PL-mount lens excels in low-light and creates stunning bokeh</str</strong>ong> with its 11-bladed iris. <span class="citation-141">Its internal focus design and </span>unified cinema gears ensure a seamless workflow and <strong>minimal focus breathing for precise control.
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Description
The Samyang XEEN 85mm T1.5 PL Full Frame lens is a robust and optically superior prime lens, meticulously engineered for the rigorous demands of professional filmmaking, particularly excelling in portraiture and shots requiring selective focus. Boasting an exceptionally fast T1.5 aperture, it is perfectly suited for challenging low-light conditions and excels at creating strikingly shallow depth of field.
The lens incorporates an 11-bladed iris, which forms a beautifully rounded aperture for natural-looking highlights and creamy, smooth bokeh. A core design principle is its internal focus mechanism, ensuring the lens’s physical length remains constant during focusing, virtually eliminating focus breathing—a crucial advantage for precise rack focusing without image shift.
Designed for ultimate efficiency on any set, this lens integrates seamlessly into established professional workflows. It features cinema-standard unified focus and iris gears, meaning their positions are consistent across the entire XEEN series, allowing follow focus units and motors to remain in place when swapping lenses, thus saving valuable production time. With a generous 200° focus throw, it facilitates incredibly precise and repeatable focus pulls.
This lens, perfect for those who rent prime lens 85mm, is a highly sought-after tool for professional productions. Furthermore, the lens’s advanced multi-coated optics guarantee consistent color rendition, high contrast, and exceptional clarity, delivering stunning resolution capable of meeting the demands of 8K capture. Its durable, high-quality construction ensures unwavering reliability in the most challenging production environments. For filmmakers and production houses in the Middle East, this is a top choice for cinema lens rental in Dubai.
<h3 data-sourcepos="24:1-24:29">Optical & Performance
- Focal Length: 85mm
- Maximum Aperture: class="citation-135 citation-end-135">T1.5 – Exceptionally fast for superior low-light performance and beautiful shallow depth of field.
- Iris Blades:</strong> 11 – Creates a rounded aperture for natural highlights and smooth, creamy bokeh.
</div> - Minimum Focus Distance:</strong> Approximately 1.12m (3.67 feet) – Suitable for tight shots and portraits.
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tation: 200° – Provides a long, precise throw for accurate and repeatable focus pulls.
- Focus Breathing: Minimized due to internal focus design, ensuring consistent perspective during focus changes.
- Optical Coatings: Advanced multi-coatings (e.g., X-Coating) for excellent contrast, glare prevention, and controlled flares.
- Color Consistency: Factory-standard color matching across the XEEN series for seamless integration into lens sets.
- Resolution Support: Capable of delivering stunning clarity for up to 8K video capture.
Design & Compatibility
- Lens Mount: PL Mount – A professional positive-lock cinema standard, ensuring secure attachment.
- Sensor Coverage: Designed to cover Full Frame sensors (24x36mm), including compatibility with Vista Vision and 8K sensor formats.
- Front Diameter: 114mm – A common cinema standard, allowing for quick attachment of matte boxes and other accessories without additional adapters.
- Filter Thread Size: N/A (designed for use with a matte box).
- Focus & Iris Gears: Cinema-standard, unified gear positions across all XEEN lenses, streamlining accessory setup (e.g., follow focus, motors).
- Focus Scales: Dual-sided, clearly marked in feet (and often meters) for easy reading from either side of the camera.
- Iris Ring: De-clicked and smooth for seamless, stepless aperture adjustments during recording.
- Construction: Robust, durable build (often metal or carbon fiber for the CF series) designed to withstand professional production environments.
- Weight (approx.): ~1.36 kg (3.0 lbs) for the original XEEN series (weight may vary slightly by specific mount or XEEN sub-series).
FAQ
1. Why is the Samyang XEEN 85mm T1.5 a good lens for making movies?
The XEEN 85mm T1.5 is a professional cinema lens made for making high-quality videos. Its most important features are a fast T1.5 aperture that makes it great for low-light situations and creates beautiful bokeh, a constant physical length thanks to its internal focus mechanism, and very little focus breathing. It also has unified gears that are standard in the film industry, so it works perfectly with follow focus systems. This makes it very useful on set.
2. Will this lens work with my camera?
The Samyang XEEN 85mm T1.5 has a PL mount, which is a standard professional cinema mount that you can find on high-end cameras like ARRI and RED. With the right adapters, though, it can work with a lot of other camera systems, such as Canon EF, Sony E, and Micro Four Thirds mounts.
3. What sets a T-stop apart from an f-stop?
An f-stop is a theoretical way to measure how well a lens can gather light. It is based on the lens's focal length and aperture diameter. A T-stop (Transmission stop), on the other hand, is a better way to measure how much light actually passes through the lens and hits the sensor. T-stops are better for filmmaking because they give a more accurate and consistent exposure across different lenses and brands.
4. What effect does the 11-bladed iris have on the quality of the image?
The 11-bladed iris is an important part of making high-quality movie images. It makes sure that the aperture stays perfectly round, even when it is stopped down. This makes for beautiful circular highlights (called "bokeh balls") and a smooth, creamy blur in the areas that are out of focus. This makes the picture look better and more natural.
5. What do "unified focus and iris gears" mean?
This means that the focus and iris gears are in the same place on all XEEN series lenses. Because the gear positions are the same, cinematographers can switch out an 85mm lens for a 50mm or 35mm lens without having to move their follow focus units or lens motors. During a fast-paced production, this saves a lot of time and work.
6. What kinds of shows does this lens work best for?
The Samyang XEEN 85mm T1.5 is a great lens for a lot of different types of professional video work. It works best for portraits, interviews, and any shot where you want to blur the background and focus on your subject. It works great for projects that shoot in 4K, 6K, or even 8K because it can take high-resolution pictures.
7. Is it possible for me to rent this lens for my next project?
Yes, a lot of people rent this lens for movies in Dubai and other big production centers. It is a reliable and popular tool for professional cinematographers who may not want to buy the lens outright because it is well-built, has great optical quality, and has useful features. If you need to rent an 85mm prime lens for a specific shoot or project, this is the best choice.
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