Expand your Canon CN-E 45-135mm T2.4 LF Cinema Zoom Lens EF Mountcine-style lens choices with the full-frame CN-E 45-135mm T2.4 LF Cinema EOS Flex Zoom Lens. This EF-mount lens is color matched to the rest of the EOS cine line, featuring a warm look with natural skin tones and accurate color rendition. The 45-135mm Flex Zoom and its 20-50mm counterpart both boast a fast T2.4 maximum aperture across their entire focal ranges, enabling low-light capture with the ease of a zoom lens.

Interchangeable EF and PL lens mounts make it easy to use the Flex zooms with a variety of cine-style cameras. Coated glass elements reduce chromatic aberration and block flares and ghosting, making this 3x zoom ideal for 4K to 8K cine-style HDR capture. An 11-blade iris produces soft, cinematic bokeh, and consistent .08-MOD gear placement and front diameter size suit the Flex zooms for use with industry-standard matte boxes and accessories.

Covers up to Full-Frame Sensor Size    T2.4 Constant Aperture, 11-Blade Iris    EF Mount    Canon EOS Cinema Color-Matching    114mm Front Diameter / 3'4" Close Focus    0.8 MOD Cine Gears, 114mm Front Diameter    Luminous Focus Marks in Feet & Meters

These zoom lenses produce the warm color balance and beautiful skin tones that are consistent across the Canon cinema line. Each lens is ideal for 4K-8K HDR capture with a tonal range that reproduces natural-looking images with reduced chromatic aberration and minimal flaring and ghosting.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Does Canon encodes the distortion data as well? Is it XD lens data?

A: Quoting the canon page on the lens data for the Canon CN-E 45-135mm T2.4 LF Cinema EOS Zoom Lens , "The Flex Zoom series lenses are compliant with a wide range of communication standards thanks to the versatile lens-to-camera communication function including Cooke /i Technology™ (PL mount) and EF mount. This will enable you to display or record lens metadata as well as utilize camera functions such as aberration correction, peripheral illumination correction and focus guide function with compatible cameras."

Q: 2. Are canon prime lenses available in focus metric system?

A: Lens markings on this lens are in feet. However, focus markings can be switched to metric labeling if you send the lens to Canon for modification.

Q: 3. Will this lens work on a Canon crop sensor 60D?

A: Yes. It will work on any full frame or aps-c canon camera.

Q: 4. How compatable is this lens with the 5D mark IV for stills?

A: This lens can be used for stills. However it will be completely manual, you will have to manually control the focus and adjust the Iris on the lens. You will not be able to control the lens on your camera.

Q: 5. All these lenses can be used with the red cameras? and the blackmagic cameras?

A: This is an EF mount lens. As long as the camera has an EF mount, it will work. With RED cameras you need to select an EF mount and with Blackmagic you will need to make sure the camera has an EF mount. So that we may best assist you finding the proper product for your needs feel free to email us directly at askbh@bhphoto.com.

Q: 6. Are the mounts interchangeable between the EF and the PL version?

A: Yes, the Canon CN-E 20-50mm T2.4 LF Cinema EOS Zoom Lens (EF Mount) features the ability to change the mount. "Interchangeable EF and PL lens mounts make it easy to use the Flex zooms with a variety of cine-style cameras."

Q: 7. What kind of horizontal distortion does this lens render on full frame around the top and bottom of the frame? Does it have barrel distortion, bulge distortion, pincushion distortion, or wave/ wiggle distortion? Do lines stay straight horizontally?

A: All extreme wide lenses exhibit some level of barrel, chromatic, and rectilinear distortion. If you wish to avoid these negatives while using wide lenses, do not get too close to your subject and cause barrel distortion or tilt and cause leaning lines. This Canon CN-E 14mm reduces all wide angle distortions to an absolute minimum. This is in keeping with the fact that this lens is meant for the Hollywood market where only the best will do. Final note: Wide and tele lenses have characteristics unique unto themselves. In the beginning of their camera career, people often look at these characteristics as negatives to be overcome. In time, the user knows what to look for and then exploits these characteristics to storytelling advantage.

Q: 8. do they make an anamorphic filter to fit the cn-e 35mm t1.5? THANKS!

A: You are in luck for yes they do make an anamorphic attachment that can be used with this lens. Letus35 AnamorphX-PRO 1.33x Adapter with Lens Support B&H # LEANXPRO13K1 $2,794.95. This will give you a 2.39 image with a 16x9 sensor. If your camera has a 4x3 sensor, get the Letus35 AnamorphX-PRO 1.8x Adapter with Lens Support B&H # LEANXPRO18K1.$3,599.95. This will result in a more oval bokeh and stronger flares.

Q: 9. What is the image circle?

A: Canon does not provide image circle specifications for the Canon CN-E 20-50mm T2.4 LF Cinema EOS Zoom Lens. However, They do say it has 8K Optical Performance and it is designed for Full Frame Cameras.

Q: 10. Does the 35mm CN-E lens have auto focussing?auto focus?

A: CN-E lenses are manual focus only