Launched off of a kickstarter and offering what we all wanted in 2014, affordable cine lens optics, Veydra announced their shutdown over the weekend. While we're currently overwhelmed with choices in the "affordable cine lens" marketplace, back in 2014 that just wasn't the case. You could buy affordable still lenses that laboriously adapt them for cine use by de-clicking and putting on focus rings, or you could find the money for real cinema lenses. For the newly popular MFT format with it's smaller flange focal distance, that didn't make a lot of sense. Thus we were all excited by the successful Kickstarter, that lead to a successful lens line, for Veydra. Repeatable focus with gears! Designed natively for MFT! Affordable! They were good as well! Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 3 September, 2019