Schneider Cine-Xenar III 50mm Lens for PL Mount, Feet

SKU: SR502CXRFT MFR: CX-1072028
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Key Features

  • Capture stunning visuals with this Schneider 50mm Cine-Xenar III lens.
  • Achieve cinematic excellence with the T2.0 aperture for beautiful bokeh.
  • Enjoy robust build quality, designed for demanding film production sets.
  • Experience precise manual focus with geared rings for smooth adjustments.
  • Get optimal image quality with this prime lens, perfect for Super 35 format.
  • Ensure compatibility with PL mount cameras, a standard in cinema lenses.
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Schneider Cine-Xenar III Specifications

  • Lens Mount

    PL-mount

  • Focal Length

    50mm

  • Aperture

    T2.0 to 16

  • Close Focus

    14" (35.56cm)

  • Horizontal Angle of View

    ANSI Super 35: 27.4deg.
    DIN Super 35: 26.5deg.
    Normal 35: 24.3deg.
    Image Circle: 1.24" (31.5mm)

  • Lens Gears

    Focus: 0.8 pitch, 123 tooth
    Iris: 0.8 pitch, 118 tooth

  • Filter Thread

    M100 x 0.75

  • Total Length

    7.1" (180.34mm)

  • Front Lens Diameter

    4.1" (104.14mm)

  • Weight

    3.51lbs (1.59kg)

  • UPC Code

    00605228108769

About Schneider Cine-Xenar III

Let the Schneider Optics Cine-Xenar III 50mm Lens elevate your digital cinematography with its precision engineering and high-quality optical performance. Designed to cover a Super 35mm frame, this lens is an essential tool for filmmakers seeking professional-grade equipment that ensures consistency across shots. As part of the Cine-Xenar III series, this 50mm lens boasts the same optical and mechanical excellence as its counterparts, allowing for a seamless transition when changing lenses during a shoot.

Crafted with a telecentric imaging design, the lens maintains sharpness and even illumination across the entire frame, which is crucial for capturing the finest details in your scenes. The uniform dimensions and strategically positioned focus and iris gears enable quick and effortless adjustments, ensuring that your workflow remains uninterrupted.

The focus ring on the Cine-Xenar III 50mm Lens offers a broad rotation angle of 270 degrees, providing cinematographers with fine control over focusing, which is especially beneficial for achieving precise focus pulls. With an aperture range of T2.0 to T16, this lens allows for versatile shooting in various lighting conditions, from bright exteriors to dimly lit interiors.

Optical coating on each lens element enhances light transmission and reduces reflections, resulting in improved contrast and color fidelity. The exquisite 18-blade iris creates a beautifully natural and smooth bokeh, adding an artistic touch to your footage by rendering out-of-focus areas with a pleasing aesthetic quality.

This robust lens comes equipped with a PL mount, the industry standard for professional cinema cameras, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of equipment. The focus scale is marked in feet, catering to the preferences of many cinematographers and facilitating accurate focus measurements on set.

Incorporate the Schneider Optics Cine-Xenar III 50mm Lens into your filmmaking arsenal for a reliable, high-performance experience that captures your vision with clarity and cinematic beauty.

Schneider Cine-Xenar III Features

  • Optical: The lens easily covers a Super 35mm film frame with an image circle of 31.5mm
  • Optical: The lens can be used with 2K/4K/5K Cinema cameras
  • Optical: The lens features a Telecentric design, which provides even illumination across the digital sensor and avoids darkening in the corners of the image
  • Optical: The 18-blade iris forms a round shape, this round iris shape causes out of focus highlights, such as candle flames or bright light sources, to appear round in shape
  • Optical: The design of the lens adds a pleasing Bokeh to the image, lending a more naturalistic feel to the image
  • Optical: The lens exhibits virtually no breathing when changing focus, minimizing distractions to the audience
  • Optical: All lenses in the range feature an advanced optical coating, to increase light transmission and provide excellent contrast
  • Optical: The Lens has color matched to a standard at the factory and so you do not have to buy a matched set and can build your lens set over time. The matched color also means that you do not have to worry about a color shift when switching lenses
  • Mechanical: The lens close focus to 14" from the sensor plane
  • Mechanical: The focus ring features 270 degrees of rotation, allowing for precision focus adjustments
  • Mechanical: This lens shares the same dimensions with all the other lenses in the Cine-Xenar III series, which means a minimum of adjustment and down time when swapping lenses
  • Mechanical: The iris and focus gears are in the same position on each lens in the series, making lens changes quicker because you do not have to reset the follow focus or iris motors for each lens
  • Mechanical: Focus scales are available in either feet or meters and can be interchanged

Key Features

  • Capture stunning visuals with this Schneider 50mm Cine-Xenar III lens.
  • Achieve cinematic excellence with the T2.0 aperture for beautiful bokeh.
  • Enjoy robust build quality, designed for demanding film production sets.
  • Experience precise manual focus with geared rings for smooth adjustments.
  • Get optimal image quality with this prime lens, perfect for Super 35 format.
  • Ensure compatibility with PL mount cameras, a standard in cinema lenses.