I met with Seth Emmons from CW Sonderoptic (Leica’s affiliate company for cinema lenses) about their exciting, new large format Leica Thalia lenses. The Thalia’s are a line of high-end spherical cine primes with extra-large 60mm diameter image circles. This is more than enough to cover ARRI’s ALEXA 65 and virtually any other digital format in use today. This includes RED’s 8K VistaVision, full format stills (36mm x 24mm) and, of course, all 3- and 4-perf Super 35 digital sensors as well.

In this Tech Talk, Rainer Hercher from CW-Sonderoptic joins me for a discussion of Leica's new cinema products for NAB 2016. They've added the 40mm focal length, highly prized by many DPs, to the Summicron-C lens set.