Camera Test Department

One of the truest measures of Affiliated Equipment’s ongoing commitment to our customers is our no fee all access three bay Camera Test Department. Always available, just give us a call and book your spot.

Revolution Lens $1500.00 per day. Discountable.

Cine Magic International’s Revolution modular lens system, whose built-in image orientation optics allow 360-degree live panning of the snorkel while never losing the level horizon. Includes mini PL lenses from 9.8 to 60mm. Additionally, the Revolution system fits any PL mount lenses and also offers a “dual swivel” module, which allows a second pan axis, freeing cinematographers from the rigid 90-degree orientation of other snorkel lenses.

Angenieux Optimo 24 – 290 $950.00 per day. Discountable.

With an extremely fast aperture speed of T2.8 and impressive contrast and color reproduction, the Angenieux Optimo 24-290 zoom lens offers a superior level of optical performance across the entire range. No ramping, no breathing, 327° focus rotation with over 25 witness marks.

Lambda Head $350.00 per day. Discountable.

The LAMBDA is a NODAL SWING HEAD ideally suited for cameras fully equipped with long lenses, mattebox and extra large film magazines.

Providing a high level of operational flexibility, this Fluid Head can be easily fitted to a wide range of supports including tripods, dollies, cranes and camera cars. The mounting can be inverted in under-slung position for low line positioning and allow the camera to be moved all the way to the ground and provide for accurate images which normally cannot be obtained with other traditional supports.

The balance system is designed so that the camera may swing on its center of gravity and rotate 360° on its vertical axis. No springs or similar counter reaction elements are required to set the head in a fixed tilt position and fluid pan and tilt movements have the same identical feel. The lens focal distance can be kept constant by presetting the fore and aft horizontal sliding plate.

Carl Zeiss Ultra Primes $1200.00 per day. Discountable.

Based on the latest in design methods, optical glass, and findings on suppression of reflexes and stray light, Carl Zeiss and its partner ARRI have introduced a new generation of fast prime lenses for 35 mm film, the Ultra Primes.

Ultra Prime lenses come with large, easy to read calibrated scales, uniform diameters and position of focus and aperture drive rings, and uniform position of exit pupil. Ultra Prime lenses are particularly robust and easy to service. The optical performance is superb, even wide open. Floating elements keep the optical performance up all the way to the close-focusing limit. Distortion is well controlled and so is breathing, especially with the wider angle lenses, where it counts most.

Cooke S4 lenses $1200.00 per day. Discountable.

The Cooke S4 Prime Lenses were designed and developed in close technical collaboration with Clairmont Camera and Otto Nemenz in Hollywood. The S4 lenses represent a major advance in fixed focal length lenses for 35mm format professional cinematography.

Carl Zeiss / Arriflex Lenses or Super Speeds $520.00 per day. Discountable.

The Carl Zeiss/Arriflex Lenses or Super Speeds provide maximum aperture of T1.3 versus most standard lenses with a T2.1.