CLAVIUS Richard Gale

Wide angle medium close up of a woman in an old American building in front of an American flag is holding a cup. Shallow background with vintage bokeh.
Wide angle detail shot of a hand holding a pencil and writing in a note book. The Clavius lens is creating an old cinema look.
Side shot of two women facing each other in an old building. Sun rays are falling through the window into the hazy room. Unsharp bokeh reveales the characteristics of the Clavius prime lens.
A woman is looking up from a red lit concrete basement facing a soldier. She is holding s document. The Clavius lens is dissorting the picture slightly.
Wide angle low key shot of three men are talking in an old wooden furnished conference room.
An old man with a hat and glasses is smoking a cigarette. The baroque church window in the background is unsharp due to the open aperture of the Clavius vintage lens.
Medium close up shot of a woman holding a land line phone. The sun is visible due to the dusty background. The unsharp elements in the background show chromatic aberration typical for the Clavius cine primes.
TecH Specs
LensTCFøWeightSensor Mount
22mm230cm1432,8kgFFPL
28mm235cm951,79kgFFPL
38mm233cm951,49kgFFPL
58mm250cm951,21kgFFPL
88mm2100cm951,46kgFFPL
The 22mm focal length is a combination of the 28mm lens and the wide angle attachment lens. The attachment lens can be used on any optic.

A lens set is build out of just one lens? In 2017, Gale designed this set by using the famous Helios-44 58mm primes as the base for all lenses and incorporated a series of built-in wide angle and telephoto attachments to create additional focal lengths. 

All lenses maintain the Helios’ beautiful swirl bokeh and flares. However you can take your creativity another direction, we have interchangeable aperture inserts to give your footage anamorphic bokeh, but with the ease of shooting spherical. The series covers a full-frame image circle and all feature 270° focus rotation and 95mm front diameters.

Shot on The Lenses
Feature Films

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