KOWA ANAMORFICAS

KOWA ANAMORPHIC LENSES

The Kowa Prominar Anamorphic lenses come from Japan and were manufactured around the 70s. With more than 40 years old, they are very delicate and it is usual to work with restored sets. For this, there are specialized houses that modify the lenses by replacing its mechanical parts and housing with more robust ones, as well as improvements in its focus ring and marks, maintaining the original lens sets.

It is a very rare set in Spain and includes 4 focal points: 40mm T2.3, 50mm T2.3, 75mm T2.8 and 100mm T3.4. Thanks to its remodeled housing, all lenses have a front diameter of 80mm. We take into account that they are anamorphic lenses with a very low weight (900g minimum and 1.36Kg maximum) and this favors hand-held camera shots with stabilizers.

The image style of the Kowa Anamorphic stands out for offering little-contrasted images that provide the following features: ease of achieving the characteristic anamorphic flare, the way to break the unfocused backgrounds with an oval bokeh and the geometric distortions that occur at the edges of the frame.

This lens set offers a spherical lens-like construction with an anamorphic front that compresses the image by a factor of 2x.

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