Name: NiSi ATHENA PRIME Cine Add-On 3-Lens Kit with 40mm T1.9, 18mm and 135mm T2.2 Lens, without Filter Holder, Sony E
Brand: NiSi
SKU: IAATHAKENF
Price: 3699.00 USD
Availability: BackOrder
Rating: 4.8 (6 reviews)

NiSi ATHENA PRIME Cine Add-On 3-Lens Kit with 40mm T1.9, 18mm and 135mm T2.2 Lens, without Filter Holder, Sony E

NiSi ATHENA PRIME

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NiSi ATHENA PRIME Cine Add-On 3-Lens Kit without Filter Holder, Sony E

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Capture stunning visuals with the NiSi ATHENA PRIME Cine 3-Lens Kit. Featuring sharp image quality, T1.9-T2.2 aperture, and robust build. Shop now!

Discover the NiSi ATHENA PRIME Add-On Cinema Lens Kit, a comprehensive expansion to our ATHENA collection, featuring the latest 18mm T2.2, 40mm T1.9, and 135mm T2.2 lenses. These lenses are meticulously crafted for full-frame coverage and beyond, offering a dynamic range of cinematic possibilities. This Add-On Kit is designed to enhance your ATHENA PRIME set, broadening your creative scope with its versatility and superior optical performance, suitable for capturing everything from expansive landscapes to detailed portraits. Each lens in this Add-On Kit is engineered to deliver exceptional image quality, maintaining the ATHENA series' commitment to superior visual storytelling. They offer maximum micro-contrast control and ultra-low chromatic aberration, resulting in images of unparalleled clarity and detail. The varying apertures, ranging from T1.9 to T2.2, coupled with their characteristic soft bokeh, add depth and emotional resonance to your visual narrative. Designed with the filmmaker's needs in mind, these lenses feature minimal focus breathing, ensuring a stable field of view across focus adjustments, which is crucial for consistent and engaging storytelling. The uniformity in iris and focus ring positions with the rest of the Athena range allows for quick, intuitive operation, an advantage in fast-paced shooting conditions. This Add-On Kit not only expands your range of cinematic expression but is also designed for practicality on set. The uniform filter thread across the lenses and the matched aperture and focus rings simplify the use of additional accessories. The focus ring's 300 Degree rotation and fluorescent focal scales provide precise focus control. The kit comes encased in a durable hard case designed to accommodate these three lenses plus an additional lens for future expansion (total 9 lenses), ensuring your equipment remains protected and portable. The NiSi ATHENA PRIME Add-On Cinema Lens Kit is your gateway to expanded creative freedom, offering unmatched quality and versatility to elevate your filmmaking to new heights. Experience the enhanced cinematic capabilities with the NiSi ATHENA PRIME Add-On Cinema Lens Kit, where every shot is an opportunity to showcase unmatched quality and creativity. The 46mm Image Circle ensures Full-frame Coverage, and the focal lengths range from 18/40/135mm in the NiSi Athena range, covering super wide angle to portrait focal lengths. The fast Aperture T 1.9 / T2.2, along with the soft bokeh, ensures 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 a consistent field of view regardless of the focal length or aperture setting. All NiSi Athena Prime lenses are similar in weight, eliminating the need for rebalancing on a gimbal when switching between Athena lenses. All lenses share the same size and 77mm filter thread, and both aperture and focus rings are matched across the range. The 135mm is a larger size and is not weight matched. The 300 Degree Focus Rotation with fluorescent focal scales ensures precise focus pulls.

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 Cine Add-On 3-Lens Kit with 40mm T1.9, 18mm and 135mm T2.2 Lens, without Filter Holder, Sony E

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