The DZOFilm Arles 100mm Prime Cine Lens draws its name from the picturesque town of Arles in southern France, a cherished source of inspiration for the artist Vincent Van Gogh. Renowned for its abundant sunlight and vibrant colors throughout the seasons, Arles catalyzed van Gogh's departure from conventional artistic styles. DZOFilm's Arles Prime series, with its T1.4 fast apertures, captures the dynamic interplay of light and shadow, igniting fresh possibilities for artistic expression and cinematic creativity.
Unparalleled Spatial Visual Impact
The Arles series covers Vista Vision sensors with a 46.5mm image circle, providing greater light transmission for enhanced depth and dimension in your visuals. This results in broader, more immersive images with rich detail. The T1.4 aperture and unique field curvature design offer exceptional focus control, creating a three-dimensional visual experience with smooth transitions between in-focus and out-of-focus areas. The specially calibrated blue coating ensures natural color reproduction, delivering a modern yet distinct look that enhances the immersive quality of the imagery.
High-Speed Prime for Ultimate Visual Quality
With a T1.4 ultra-wide aperture, the Arles Prime delivers abundant light intake, excelling in low-light and complex shooting conditions. It creates a stunningly dreamy shallow depth of field, precisely highlighting every narrative detail. At a wide-open aperture, the lens ensures even brightness transitions and a clear rendering of intricate light and shadow details. It supports high frame rate shooting without compromising image quality, producing smooth and exquisite cinematic footage.
Crafted Precision for Immaculate Clarity
Using advanced multi-layer nano-coating technology, the Arles series features a specially calibrated blue coating to minimize reflections and effectively reduce stray light and ghosting. This ensures stable and controllable flares. The entire series incorporates a protective coating on the front lens element to resist dust and dirt accumulation, providing high light transmission and consistent optical clarity. The internal lens structure utilizes sandblasting and anodizing techniques to create a micro-level anti-reflective coating with ultra-low reflectivity, reducing diffuse reflections. Even when shooting directly against the light, the lenses deliver clean and sharp images. The color temperature is around 5000K, faithfully reproducing vivid, true-to-life colors and presenting a natural, neutral visual style.
Cinematic Depth with Painterly Rendering
The Arles Prime boasts 16 aperture blades, delivering delightful circular bokeh and ensuring smooth transitions between in-focus and out-of-focus areas. At maximum aperture, it presents a soft low-contrast look. At the same time, a slight swirling bokeh on the periphery adds a distinctive characteristic to the image, enhancing the emotional depth of each frame. The built-in floating lens elements substantially minimize aberrations during focusing transitions from infinity to close-up, improving optical performance. Its minimal breathing immerses viewers in each frame, amplifying the emotional impact of the scenes.
Exquisite Optics Superlative Performance
The Arles Primes achieve remarkable image quality through rigorous optical design, ensuring consistent high resolution while meeting the demands of high-end cinematography. With micron-level precision manufacturing, this lens maintains a lightweight and compact form while effectively correcting spherical aberration and coma, reducing onion-ring bokeh, and minimizing wide-angle distortion and astigmatism. The entire series uses low-dispersion optical materials to precisely suppress chromatic aberration, resulting in exceptional optical performance.
