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Even though we work with images on a rectangular canvas, lenses project their images in a circular shape. All of the lenses designed for a particular format or imager size will roughly project the same size circle, or at least a minimum circle to cover the rectangular imager within the diameter of that circle. This …

After the very positive feedback for the Ultimate Camera Database I built in 2017 I decided to build on that success and offer even more data – this time for cine lenses. I am regularly confronted with questions like “What‘s the close focus distance of a lens?”, “What’s the front diameter of lens XY so …

As part of my daily job as a rental technician I had clients ask regularly for rather specific details about the cameras they want to use and I always kept spreadsheets with the most important specs for certain cameras. But the lists would eventually get lost or were in the wrong place when on the …