TRIBE7, a lens company, was co-founded by cinematographer Bradford Young, ASC, and lens designer Neil Fanthom. The company is known for their BLACKWING7 lens series, which are custom-tuned cinema lenses inspired by vintage optics. TRIBE7 lenses are designed to provide a distinctive aesthetic, offering options for personalizing characteristics such as contrast, flare, and focus fall-off. This caters to filmmakers seeking a unique visual language. The company combines precision engineering with artistic flexibility, ensuring that their lenses are utilized in commercial, narrative, and experimental cinematography. TRIBE7 has released the BLACKWING series of full-frame cinema lenses, featuring three distinct optical configurations designed around controlled distortion characteristics. The ARRI PL-mount lenses are available in S-Tuned, T-Tuned, and X-Tuned variants, each offering different optical properties for cinematographic applications. Company background and design philosophy TRIBE7 was established through a collaboration between Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Bradford Young, ASC, and motion picture lens technologist Neil Fanthom. The BLACKWING series employs modular distortion control, with each lens variant calibrated for specific optical characteristics including sharpness, contrast, spherical aberration, roll-off, edge halation, and field curvature. The lenses have been utilized on various productions and are compatible with full-frame cinema cameras such as the RED V-RAPTOR [X] 8K VV, ARRI ALEXA Mini LF, Sony VENICE, and Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K. TRIBE7 BLACKWING. Credit: TRIBE7 Technical specifications All BLACKWING lenses share common mechanical features, including a 14-blade aperture, 270-degree barrel rotation for focus control, 0.8 MOD focus and iris gears, and a consistent 114mm front diameter across the series. T-Tuned series...
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