Illumina/ELITE Superspeed Set

Most people aren’t familiar with Illumina lenses, which is totally fair. They aren’t the million-lenses-per-year behemoths of Canon and Nikon, nor are they the storied perfectionists at Cooke or Angenieux. They aren’t the German glass martinets at Zeiss and they aren’t part of the Chinese ‘cinevization’ trend of re-housing still glass. What they are indeed is this: a workhorse set of s16-sized cinema lenses that are as fast as they are hearty. They sit somewhere in between a set of Mark II and Mark III Zeiss superspeeds; stout, contrasty lenses with a wide variety of applications. They cut nearly interchangeably with Mark II superspeeds and are lightyears beyond older glass. Like Mark II’s, they flare in a reliable fashion and are extremely light and small in comparison to s35/FF glass. Focusing and aperture-wise, geared, smooth steel at the end of the rig will always beat a rubber Rube Goldberg machine sitting on 15mm rods. We include the 7mm ELITE lens as a matter of choice: the 7mm