Canon 8-64 Zoom

Commonly known as the “Hurt Locker” lens, the s16 8-64 is Canon glass at it’s best: extremely robust, incredibly reliable and consistent from end-to-end. Being able to throw a single lens on a camera and just “go” makes a day shoot or even a commercial short cruise; no need for a swing-away mattebox, no hunting for donuts, no time lost jumping from prime to prime. There is a reason these were the workhorses of 90’s TV: tight schedules, antsy talent, timecode jamming between mags, sudden cloud patches… …anything can turn a cake shoot into a hectic scramble, so turning one variable into a constant makes a big difference. Contrast-ier at the barrel end with a predictably tapered fall-off, this super versatile lens on lets A Cam go from wide to medium from the same mark, while also letting B Cam grab inserts or b-roll. And being able to go from t2.4 to COMPLETELY closed means that you can salvage a shot when the ND’s are lost in the bottom of the bag. We’ve shot whole features on this lens