Beautiful single coated optics. Control contrast and flare with the single coated aspheric front element. One creative vision, multiple choices. 

High resolution single coated modern optics featuring free form design for visual acuity matching the human eye. Fast T1.5 lenses with sensor coverage well beyond full frame. Keep your subject right where you left it with our virtually zero breathing optical design. Precision and versatility for the future. 

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The Tokina 18mm T1.5 Cinema Vista ONE Prime Lens with different mount options;  PL, EF, E, MFT and with focus scales marked in feet provides an image circle that more than covers full-frame sensors and is designed to provide sharp images even when recording images at 8K resolution. This is an 18mm focal length lens, and it shares the same form factor, lens gear position, focus rotation, and front barrel diameter as the other Tokina Cinema Vista prime lenses. This makes on-set lens changes a fast and efficient operation. It features a maximum T stop of 1.5, useful when shooting in low-light situations or when you want to capture that exceedingly shallow depth-of-field look.

The 9-bladed iris provides round out-of-focus highlights for a natural-looking bokeh. The lens barrel features approximately 300° of rotation from close focus to infinity; this gives you a high degree of precision when pulling focus. The lens is designed to minimize focus breathing, and features geared manual focus and iris rings. Markings on both sides of the lens barrel make it readable from either side of the camera.

Features

 

• The 18mm T1.5  prime lens is capable of focusing images on a sensor with full 8K resolution and features a 46.7 mm image circle, which covers standard-sized full-frame sensors.

• The use of a 9-blade iris produces a smooth round appearance to out-of-focus specular highlights. The iris also produces a pleasing bokeh, referring to natural-looking out-of-focus areas of the image. The iris is manual and features smooth movement without click stops for smooth exposure adjustments while recording.

• The lens has markings on both sides of the barrel, making it easy to read focus and aperture settings from behind or from either side of the camera.

• The lens shares the same front lens diameters and gear positioning on the focus and iris rings as the other lenses in the series, making lens switching quick and convenient. Additionally, the focus ring features approximately 300º of smooth rotation to help facilitate consistently accurate focusing especially when pulling focus during a shot.

• Designed to minimize variations in the angle of view while focusing, a phenomenon known as focus breathing. This feature is extremely important while pulling focus, especially on static shots, where focus breathing is more noticeable.

• The lens features a 114mm front diameter to accommodate industry-standard matte box sizes.

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The Vista One is a modification of the Vista range . The front element receives a proprietary single coating technology applied to both the concave and convex surfaces of the front element. The fragile wavefront design of the Vista series allow for a pleasing flare that is taken to more extreme limits in the single coated Vista One series.

The flare is heavily diffused with a strong blue colour inclusion at wider apertures and secondary and tertiary flares coming in a green colour that is normal for the Vista series. The green colour is easily rendered to a white colour in post allowing for a strong blue flare to remain after post production.

If higher kelvin light sources are used such as HMI then the flare turns white while still maintaining detail. The look of the flare is retained up to T5.6 which is relatively unique as most single or uncoated lenses will often lose their characteristic when stopped down just one or two stops.

Many single or uncoated lenses lose significant resolution in the white points of the image to the point of recording no information on the sensor in certain areas of flare. The Vista One retain resolution and detail even in the strongest flare making them more versatile and giving more freedom in creative choices.

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