ARRI Enso Prime Core Set - Imperial, LPL Mount

ARRI Enso Prime lenses are named after, and inspired by, a circular Zen symbol. In Zen calligraphy, painting an enso is a meditative practice that trains your mind to exist fully in the moment. You are engaged with your surroundings, but your thoughts are untroubled by anything beyond the act of creation.

This is an ideal state of mind on set, and it is only possible if you have complete trust in your tools.

Collaborating with a leading Japanese optics house, ARRI designed the Enso lens series to deliver incredible image quality across a huge range of focal lengths, from 10.5 to 250 mm (350/500 mm with Ensö Extenders). Combining German engineering with Japanese optical excellence, Ensos are a fusion of two cultures - adaptable and reliable, yet elegantly simple and pure of purpose.

Building on what ARRI has learned from feedback about its Impression Filters for Signature lenses, Enso Vintage Elements incorporate significant advantages. They come in more powerful strengths, producing images that are sharper in the center and therefore easier to focus, but with a stronger detuned effect at the edges of frame.

They have encoded chips that convey metadata about shifts of focal length, T-stop, and focus to the camera, and from there to on-set monitors and postproduction.

Focus scale changes caused by the Elements can be compensated for automatically with the ARRI Hi-5 hand unit, even if crews decide not to use the included lens shims.

ARRI Enso lenses are equipped with the LPL (Large Positive Locking) lens mount. A wider diameter and shorter flange focal depth allow LPL lenses to be small and lightweight, with a fast T-stop and pleasing bokeh—a combination of features that would not be possible with the old PL lens mount. Careful testing is required when using Enso Vintage Elements with third-party LPL mounts.

Features:

• 14 primes from 10.5mm to 250mm (350/500mm with Enso Extenders)
• Different looks via external lens tuning with Enso Vintage Elements
• Compact, lightweight, and flexible lenses designed for long ROI
• 1:4 magnification ratio for exceptionally close focus
• New Enso look, which is sharp and true, yet gentle and natural

NOTE: This Core set includes (6) focal lengths (out of what will eventually be a 14-lens range, pending further product releases).