NiSi Optics AUREUS PRIME Full Frame T1.4 Cinema Lens Kit (PL Mount)

About: NiSi Optics AUREUS PRIME Full Frame T1.4 Cinema Lens Kit (PL Mount)

NiSi Aureus Prime Full Frame T1.4 Cinema Lens Kit (PL Mount) – Unrivaled Cinematic Precision

Designed for the demands of modern cinematography, the NiSi Aureus Prime Full Frame T1.4 Cinema Lens Kit delivers an exceptional combination of speed, optical clarity, and creative versatility. This five-lens set, featuring 18mm, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm focal lengths, is engineered for full-frame cameras and offers a fast T1.4 aperture, ensuring breathtaking performance in low-light conditions while producing stunning depth and cinematic bokeh. Aureus deliver exceptional image quality across the entire aperture range, from T1.4 to T22, ensuring ultra-high resolution and fine detail preservation from center to edge.

Full-Frame Coverage and Immersive Depth

With a 46mm image circle, these lenses provide full-frame coverage, maintaining edge-to-edge sharpness with no vignetting. The T1.4 aperture not only enhances exposure flexibility but also produces smooth, natural out-of-focus highlights, creating an immersive and dimensional visual experience. Whether capturing a dramatic close-up or an expansive wide shot, the Aureus Prime series ensures every frame is rendered with stunning clarity and precision.

Advanced Optical Engineering

The optical design of the Aureus Prime lenses is meticulously crafted to minimize chromatic aberration and distortion, delivering ultra-low dispersion performance that preserves true-to-life colors and crisp detail. Advanced coatings reduce ghosting and flares while maintaining high contrast and deep, rich blacks. Even when shooting wide open at T1.4, these lenses exhibit minimal optical imperfections, ensuring filmmakers can achieve a clean and professional image in any lighting scenario.

Virtually Zero Focus Breathing and High Resolution

One of the standout features of the Aureus Prime series is its virtually zero focus breathing, which allows for smooth focus transitions without unwanted shifts in composition. The lenses maintain exceptional resolution across the entire aperture range, from T1.4 to T22, ensuring fine details remain sharp from center to edge. The combination of high resolution, minimal breathing, and superior contrast control makes these lenses a powerful tool for professional filmmakers seeking both precision and artistic expression.

Smooth Focus and Beautiful Bokeh

With a 300° focus rotation, the lenses offer smooth and precise focus pulls, ensuring exceptional control for cinematographers who demand accuracy in critical focus adjustments. The lenses also maintain a manual aperture structure with 11 aperture blades, delivering beautifully smooth bokeh and natural out-of-focus transitions.

Neutral Color and Cinematic Tonality

The color reproduction of the Aureus Prime lenses is neutral and accurate, making them an ideal choice for productions requiring seamless color matching across multiple shots. Enhanced micro-contrast capabilities allow for greater depth in shadows and more natural tonal transitions, giving footage a cinematic quality that stands out in both digital and film workflows.

Broad Compatibility with PL-Mount Systems

The Aureus Prime series features a flange distance at infinity ranging from 16.1mm-19.8mm across the five focal lengths, ensuring broad compatibility with all PL-mount cameras and an extensive range of PL adapters. This design allows seamless integration with cinema rigs, mirrorless setups, and professional video systems, including adapters with built-in drop-in filter options, giving filmmakers even greater creative control. Whether used with industry-standard ARRI, RED, Sony VENICE, or Blackmagic URSA cameras, or adapted to other platforms, the Aureus Prime lenses provide unmatched versatility for any production environment.

Optically Matched with Athena Prime Series

Aureus Prime is designed to pair effortlessly with NiSi’s Athena Prime series, sharing a similar optical character and rendering style. This allows filmmakers to mix lenses from both sets without noticeable differences in image quality, ensuring a consistent visual aesthetic across a production. With matching color profiles and minimal optical variances, cinematographers can switch between different apertures without sacrificing uniformity in their final footage.

Ergonomic Design and Professional Usability

Functionality and ease of use are at the core of the Aureus Prime design. The glow-in-the-dark focus and aperture ring markings enhance readability in low-light environments, making on-set adjustments seamless. The dual-scale focus rings, available in both feet and meters, offer flexibility for different production needs and can be swapped based on user preference. With uniform focus and aperture ring positions across the set, lens changes are quick and intuitive, allowing cinematographers to work efficiently without unnecessary delays. The lenses are crafted with a compact and lightweight design, maintaining consistency across the entire set. Consistent size, weight, and front diameter for hassle-free rigging and lens changes.

Interchangeable Rear Filter System

For added creative control, the interchangeable rear filter system provides filmmakers with expanded options for shaping their image. This rear-mounted filter system allows for easy customization without the need for additional front-mounted filters, maintaining a streamlined and balanced setup.

Robust Construction, Lightweight Design

Built for professional-grade durability, the Aureus Prime lenses feature precision-engineered metal housings designed to withstand the rigors of production environments. Despite their solid construction, the lenses remain compact and lightweight, making them ideal for handheld, gimbal, and drone work. The 90mm front diameter and 86mm filter thread ensure compatibility with industry-standard matte boxes and accessories, further enhancing their versatility on set. The NiSi Aureus Prime T1.4 Cinema Lens Kit features a consistent front diameter of 90mm across all focal lengths, allowing seamless compatibility with matte boxes and other rigging accessories. Each lens includes an 86mm filter thread, providing added flexibility for screw-on filters.

Despite their robust construction, all lenses in the Aureus Prime series weigh just 1300g, balancing durability and portability for handheld, gimbal, and stabilized shooting setups.

Crafted for Professional Storytelling

From high-budget feature films and television productions to independent films and documentaries, the NiSi Aureus Prime Full Frame T1.4 Cinema Lens Kit is a powerful and reliable tool for filmmakers who demand the best in optical quality and performance. Each lens in the kit has been meticulously crafted to meet the highest professional standards, ensuring filmmakers can capture every moment with clarity, depth, and artistic intent.

Included in the kit are five carefully matched prime lenses, all featuring a T1.4 maximum aperture, along with a durable hard case for secure storage and transport. Designed to push the boundaries of modern cinematography, the NiSi Aureus Prime series is a game-changer for filmmakers looking to achieve breathtaking visual storytelling.

Uncompromising Quality for Cinematic Excellence

With unrivaled sharpness, smooth focus transitions, and exceptional low-light performance, the NiSi Aureus Prime Full Frame T1.4 Cinema Lens Kit is the ultimate choice for those who refuse to compromise on quality. Capture every frame with cinematic excellence—elevate your storytelling with NiSi Aureus Prime.

Features

• Fast T1.4 Aperture for Stunning Low-Light Performance – The ultra-fast T1.4 aperture enables filmmakers to shoot in extreme low-light conditions while maintaining high image quality, rich contrast, and excellent depth of field control for beautiful cinematic bokeh.
• Full-Frame Coverage with a 46mm Image Circle – Designed for full-frame cinema cameras, these lenses ensure edge-to-edge sharpness without vignetting, delivering professional-grade clarity and detail in every frame.
• Zero Focus Breathing – The near-elimination of focus breathing ensures that focus pulls are smooth and natural, with no noticeable shifts in composition—perfect for professional cinematographers looking for seamless transitions.
• Superior Optical Design for Minimal Chromatic Aberration – Advanced optical engineering with ultra-low dispersion elements minimizes chromatic aberration, distortion, and color fringing, preserving true-to-life colors and crisp details even at the widest apertures.
• 300° Focus Rotation for Precision Control – A long 300° focus throw provides cinematographers with precise manual focus control, ensuring smooth and accurate focus pulls for demanding shooting scenarios.
• Consistent Build and Weight Across the Set – The entire lens set features a uniform front diameter of 90mm and consistent weight distribution (1300g per lens), allowing seamless compatibility with matte boxes, follow focus systems, and rigging setups.
• Versatile PL Mount Compatibility – Flange distance at infinity ranges from 16.1mm-19.8mm across the set, ensuring seamless integration with all PL-mount cameras.  Fully compatible with a wide range of PL adapters, including those with drop-in filter options, expanding creative flexibility.
• Neutral and Accurate Color Reproduction – Designed to deliver true-to-life colors with a natural tonal range, the lenses ensure seamless color matching across different shots, making them ideal for professional productions requiring uniform color consistency.
• Durable, Lightweight Metal Construction – Crafted from precision-engineered metal, the robust yet lightweight design makes these lenses ideal for handheld, gimbal, and drone applications without compromising durability.
• Interchangeable Rear Filter System for Creative Flexibility – The built-in rear filter system allows for quick customization with ND, diffusion, or specialty filters, enabling filmmakers to achieve their desired look without requiring additional front-mounted filters.
• Interchangeable Focus Scale (Feet or Meters) for Versatile Use – The focus scale is set up in feet by default but can be easily swapped to meters using a tool (sold separately), allowing cinematographers to work with their preferred measurement system for precise focus adjustments.
• Optimized for Modern Cinematic Workflow – Designed to pair seamlessly with NiSi’s Athena Prime lenses, the Aureus Prime series shares a similar optical character, allowing filmmakers to mix and match without compromising image quality or consistency across a production.
• Complete Kit with Five Prime Lenses and a Hard Case – The NiSi Aureus Prime Kit includes five meticulously matched focal lengths—18mm, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm—all featuring a fast T1.4 aperture. The set comes in a durable, hard case for secure transport and storage, ensuring professional filmmakers have a versatile and protected lens set for any production.

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