Name: NiSi ATHENA PRIME 40mm T1.9 Cine Lens with Filter Holder, Leica L
Brand: NiSi
SKU: IAATH40L
Price: 1079.20 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.8 (6 reviews)

NiSi ATHENA PRIME 40mm T1.9 Cine Lens with Filter Holder, Leica L

NiSi ATHENA PRIME

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Discover the NiSi ATHENA PRIME 40mm T1.9 Cine Lens. Leica L mount, full frame, T1.9 aperture, and superior build. Shop now for unmatched image quality.

How can you elevate your filmmaking to the next level  The answer lies in the NiSi 40mm ATHENA PRIME Full Frame Cinema Lens T1.9 (L Mount), the latest addition to our ATHENA cinema lens lineup. This lens is meticulously engineered to enhance your cinematic creations with its state-of-the-art design and exceptional optical performance. Seamlessly integrating with the original Athena Prime series, this lens offers the same remarkable features, consistent weight, and synchronized focus and iris ring positions. This ensures a harmonious user experience across the range, making it a valuable addition to any filmmaker's toolkit. The NiSi 40mm ATHENA PRIME lens is designed to deliver unparalleled image quality, thanks to its superior micro-contrast control and minimal chromatic aberration. The result  Crisper, more detailed images that truly bring your creative vision to life. With a large aperture of T1.9, this lens offers stunning background separation and soft, captivating bokeh. This makes it the perfect tool for creating atmospheric shots with a distinct sense of depth. Designed with precision to minimize focus breathing, this lens ensures a consistent field of view as you adjust focus. This is an indispensable feature for filmmakers who demand seamless focus pulls and a uniform visual style throughout their work. The compatibility and uniformity in design with the rest of the Athena Prime series mean no more time wasted rebalancing your gimbal when changing lenses. Each lens in the series matches in weight and size for effortless transitions. The Athena Prime Lens Series (E mount) is equipped with a drop-in filter mount, providing a more flexible workflow and creative control for filmmaking. This feature allows filmmakers to easily add ND filters, polarizers, or other filters to achieve their desired look without having to attach filters to the front of the lens. This also makes it easier to swap filters quickly and efficiently, saving time and reducing the risk of lens damage. The 40mm ATHENA PRIME also boasts a 77mm filter thread, 80mm clamp on size and matching aperture and focus rings across the series. This simplifies the use of additional lens accessories. The focus ring, featuring 300 Degree of rotation with fluorescent focal scales, allows for unmatched precision in focus pulls, ensuring sharp, dynamic shots even in low-light conditions. Ideal for a wide range of cinematic projects, from feature films and documentaries to music videos, the NiSi 40mm ATHENA PRIME Full Frame Cinema Lens T1.9 (L Mount) is a versatile, high-quality tool that offers unmatched image quality, flexibility, and creative freedom. Step into the future of filmmaking with NiSi, where your vision knows no bounds. The 40mm ATHENA PRIME lens offers a 46mm Image Circle for Full-frame Coverage and a focal length of 40mm in the NiSi Athena range, covering super wide angle to portrait focal lengths. This allows you to capture a wide variety of subjects. The lens also features a fast Aperture T 1.9 and soft bokeh for beautiful background separation. Designed with micro-contrast control and ultra-low chromatic aberration, these lenses offer unparalleled image quality with finer image details. The Athena Prime lenses have been designed to minimize focus breathing, ensuring that the change in field of view when adjusting focus from the minimum focus distance to infinity is extremely small. The L mount models also feature a drop-in filter slot and 300 Degree Focus Rotation with fluorescent focal scales for precise focus pulls. In conclusion, the NiSi 40mm ATHENA PRIME Full Frame Cinema Lens T1.9 (L Mount) is a powerful tool that offers superior image quality and creative flexibility, making it a must-have for any serious filmmaker.

Love these lenses, this makes my second Athena Prime. I'm running them on my C70 with DJI Focus Pro for making it autofocus, the footage is ??

Great lens + great price = happy customer!

Amazing lens for the value. Paired it with a C70 and the DJI Lidar system. Love the colors and sharpness of this lens. I was hesitant at first, since the brand is new to the market- but I'm considering another focal length soon.

Great quality lens

Great budget lens, currently using with the DJI lidar/focus pro system. Unsure if this is chromatic aberration - subject outlines with pink color were noticeable when filming low-light with blue (240) 300w key.

Budget lens

This lens is cinematic and sharp. I love it. The best budget lens by far. I done shoot short film and music videos for quite a while. And over the years I experienced many lens. The image quality from this lens is amazing. I shout in the red Komodo and the drop in filter turns your red camera into the perfect compact cinematic solution. I recommend this lens

Nisi Athena 25mm

I've been hunting for some sharp glass for a good while. This small set of primes are just what the production doctor ordered!

Sharp glass

As an independent owner-operator, I'm always lusting after some of the top-shelf gear that I may never get to own. I've been looking far and wide for a solid cine lens set. I considered IRIX, Dulens, DZO, Meike, and Canon CN-E, but ultimately settled on these for their combination of low price, tiny weight, and bright aperture. 

At the end of the day, these are fantastic and I'm delighted with the choice. The entire set is sharp, fast, light, and consistent. The coverage is excellent, easily hitting full-frame and beyond with very little vignetting. The small size makes them convenient in a variety of setups, and ultimately they are just a ton of fun to use. The one drawback is how far they protrude behind the PL mount, which makes them incompatible with most drop-in filter systems. However this is a small price to pay in exchange for getting near-ARRI-level performance at 95% lower price and 50% smaller size and weight. Also, the Breakthrough Cinema DFM adapter *does* supposedly work with these, so I'm interested to try that out.  

In any event, I expect to keep this set for a very, very long time. At this price, the set is absolutely unbeatable. It provides s a very clean, neutral look which can be easily manipulated in post. I might go chase some vintage looks in the future, but I doubt I'll ever get rid of something this reliable, usable, and overall just FUN to shoot with as these. 

ONE THING TO BE AWARE OF, however. When I first got these lenses, I was shooting on the Canon R5 C. These lenses delivered very similar performance to what I was previously getting out of my native RF glass, what I called my "Mini Cine" kit. Those lenses are also extraordinary and largely overlooked. In fact, if you turn on the automatic corrections in camera, the RF set delivers an almost identical image to the Athenas, just that the RF glass is a little bit softer. In fact, the Athenas are SO sharp that on the Canon R5 C it was a bit too much, and made things look really harsh in some cases. This can be mitigated in post, or even in-camera if you aren't shooting RAW. But there's something in the nature of Canon's sensor or OLPF stack which was making for some unpleasant over-sharpness in some cases. But I recently added a RED V-Raptor to the arsenal, and the Athenas produce a much less harsh image on the Raptor. It's still sharp, but much more smooth and much more pleasant. The point is, just be aware that your camera's sensor can play a part in how the image comes back. You can manipulate things in post, of course, but for those who like to get a good image quickly without much manipulation, make sure to check your sharpness settings etc. Just do some tests, do your homework, and these lenses will reward you. I absolutely love them.

NiSi ATHENA PRIME 40mm T1.9 Cine Lens with Filter Holder, Leica L

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