The Sunlight Series delivers the sought-after anamorphic look to a wider audience while maintaining professional-grade quality.
Spanning a versatile 40mm to 135mm, the Laowa Sunlight Series empowers filmmakers to adapt to a vast range of creative needs. With a over 3x zoom range combined, these lenses effortlessly transition from capturing breathtaking wide landscapes to framing intimate close-up portraits. This unprecedented flexibility eliminates the need for frequent lens swaps, streamlining workflows on set and allowing filmmakers to focus on capturing the perfect moment.
The Laowa Sunlight Series features a carefully calibrated parfocal design, guaranteeing that focus remains consistent throughout the entire zoom range. This crucial feature enables filmmakers to execute dynamic shots with confidence, from impactful crash-zooms to gliding dolly zooms, without the interruption of refocusing. This empowers filmmakers to enhance their creative storytelling and captivate their audience.
SUNLIGHT Zoom features a maximum aperture of T4.5, providing excellent low-light performance and depth of field control, allowing you to shoot with high image quality even in dimly-lit environments.
Achieving a consistent, classic widescreen look is effortless with the Sunlight Series' constant 2x squeeze. This ensures that the distinct anamorphic character is maintained across the entire focal range, eliminating unwanted distortions and providing filmmakers with a reliably cinematic image, every time.
The Laowa Sunlight Series elevates cinematic artistry with its captivating oval bokeh, a hallmark of true anamorphic lenses. Enhanced by the precise 2x squeeze ratio and meticulous optical design, this distinctive bokeh effect renders out-of-focus highlights into elongated, elliptical forms, creating a dreamy, organic depth that draws viewers into the heart of the scene. This immersive quality adds a touch of magic, transforming ordinary shots into visually stunning experiences.
In addition to blue, amber, and silver glare versions, a new clear flare is also included.
Even with strong point light sources, there's no noticeable glare, resulting in a cleaner, more elegant image.
The Laowa Sunlight Series invites viewers into the heart of the story with exceptional close-focus capabilities. With a minimum focusing distance of just 0.61m (40-80mm) or 0.78m (70-135mm), these lenses empower filmmakers to capture sharp, immersive close-up shots with remarkable detail. This capability enhances storytelling in tight or intimate setups, allowing audiences to connect with the characters and emotions on a deeper level.
Because it is cinematic! Everything you shoot can now be cinematic with a golden aspect widescreen ratio of 2.4:1. The expanded field of view also reveals additional details and information about the scene.
Professional Cine Housing
Each lens comes with a native PL mount, and for added convenience, we also offer interchangeable mounts for Canon RF, Sony E, Nikon Z and L mount.
Name | Sunlight 2X FF Anamorphic Zoom Series |
Format | FF |
Focal Length | 40-80mm / 70-135mm |
Aperture Range | T4.5 –T22 |
Angle Of View | 71.5°×33.4°~39.6°×17.1° / 44.7°×19.5°~24.1°×10.2° |
Lens Structure | 23 elements in 15 groups / 22 elements in 14 groups |
Aperture Blades | 10 |
Focus Throw | 305° / 302° |
Distance Scale | Metric & Imperial (Dual Scale) |
Aperture Throw | 32.7° |
Zoom Throw | 100° |
Squeeze Ratio | 2X |
Flange Distance | PL=52mm |
Geer Mod | 0.8 Mod |
Min. focusing Distance | 0.61m (2ft ) / 0.78m (2ft7in) |
Focus Type | Manual (MF) |
Filter Thread | Ø95mm |
Front Diameter | Ø105mm |
Dimensions | ~Ø110.4mm*242mm |
Weight | ~2.8kg / ~2.6kg |
Flare Color | Amber / Silver / Blue/ Clear |
Mounts | Arri PL (Optional: Sony E, Canon RF, Nikon Z, L mount) |
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