We manufacture high-quality cinema lenses for the motion picture industry. For optimal quality, we use Zeiss and Leica glass. They are housed in a bespoke mechanism which is exclusively handmade in Finland.
Whitepoint Optics
We manufacture high-quality cinema lenses for the motion picture industry. For optimal quality, we use Zeiss and Leica glass. They are housed in a bespoke mechanism which is exclusively handmade in Finland.
With over thirty years experience in filmmaking, along with lens design and repair, we provide a unique service by offering our expertise in Art direction and custom-made lenses.
Our lenses offer a unique bokeh that no other lens can match. This is thanks to our tailor-made lenses with full round iris. The optics covering Full Frame sensor, RED Vista Vision and ARRI Alexa 65 sensors. Image circle is 82mm.
We emphasise on providing the best lens to get the right look and feel for your story. After all, we believe that the lens to a DoP is much like the paint brush to the artist.
The first W. series in production uses the Hasselblad medium format glasses. It was these pioneering lenses that were used by the Apollo mission, resulting in space photography that has changed the way we see the world and ourselves.
The focal lengths of the lenses range from 21 – 500mm, catering from to Super35 to the Arri Alexa 65 (TS70 lenses only), Red Vista Vision, Sony Venice and other large format and full format imaging sensors without vignetting or distortion. WPO ts70 series image circle is 82mm and WPO HS 46mm. The lenses are available in PL, EF and E-mount.
The set comes as prime or additional Tilt-Swing mechanism (max. 9 degrees) which is simple to lock and release. The front diameter of the lenses throughout the set maintains the same consistency making it ideal for accessory use (114mm). The set offers a sharp yet pleasingly balanced and smooth look that is only possible from using handmade legendary glass.
30mm
T3.5 – 22
Close Focus: 0,35m
Length: 155mm
Weight: 2.75kg
40mm
T4 – 32
Close Focus: 0,35m
Length: 151mm
Weight: 2.63kg
60mm
T3.5 – 22
Close Focus: 0,45m
Length: 120mm
Weight: 1.74kg
80mm
T2.8 – 22
Close Focus: 0,65m
Length: 115mm
Weight: 1.54kg
100mm
T3.5 – 22
Close Focus: 0,80m
Length: 121mm
Weight: 1.52kg
120mm
T4 – 32
Close Focus: 1m
Length: 147mm
Weight: 1.85kg
50mm, 150mm, 250mm and 500mm available late 2018.
21mm
T2.5 – 16
Close Focus: 0,35m
Length: 200mm
Weight: 2.85kg
28mm
T2.8 – 22
Close Focus: 0,35m
Length: 156mm
Weight: 2.73kg
42mm
T2.5 – 16
Close Focus: 0,45m
Length: 125mm
Weight: 1.85kg
56mm
T2 – 16
Close Focus: 0,65m
Length: 120mm
Weight: 1.65kg
70mm
T2.5 – 16
Close Focus: 0,80m
Length: 126mm
Weight: 1.65kg
84mm
T2.8 – 22
Close Focus: 1m
Length: 155mm
Weight: 1.95kg
35mm, 105mm, 175mm and 350mm available late 2018.
Test footage shot on RED Monstro 8K and RED Helium 8K. Dop Peter Salovaara Gaffer Dan Sykes.
Released in the early 1960s, Super Baltars immediately established themselves as the optics of choice for major motion pictures and television. The Godfather I and II were both shot with Super Baltars, as was Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and the iconic TV series Star Trek.
The original optical prescriptions and blueprints used to make the original Baltars and Super Baltars were rescued from certain death in a landfill by a B&L optical engineer named Bill Peck when the company got out of the photo and cine lens business.
Optical Designer Brian Caldwell has then used years to re-manufacture the lenses to their exact original formula. The look matches the iconic Super Baltars as accurately as humanily possible.
These amazing optical cells are now engineered in high precision mechanical housing by Whitepoint Optics.
Since the glass is brand new it´s now possible to build a matching copy if more sets are needed or if the lens element is damaged.
The NEO Super Baltar lenses have a beautiful organic image with plenty of vintage character.
20mm
T2.3
25mm
T2.3
C35mm
T2.3
LWD35mm
T2.3
50mm
T2.3
75mm
T2.3
100mm
T2.3
152mm
T3
229mm
T4.4
Chief Optics Technician
+358 44 9780700
Managing Director
+358 50 5151110
Product Manager
+358 400 818412
Cinematographer,
Lens Development
Visual Director
+358 400 994540
Sales Director
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Legendary Cinema Lenses Designed and Produced in Finland
Whitepoint Optics is developed by the Whitepoint Production Company based in Helsinki.
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