Arles Zooms have the depth, character I associate with some of the best prime lenses.
There is something genuinely magical about the Arles Zooms. It’s that feeling when you come back from a shoot, sit down in front of a big screen and start watching the footage–and you realize that every frame worked. Every shot looks the way you hoped it would, or even better. The magic of these zooms is in their rendering. They have the depth, character and optical refinement I normally associate with some of the best prime lenses.
Łukasz Glewicz
Cinematographer
Arles Zooms deliver the same organic, pleasing look of the Arles line.
For DZOFILM Arles Zooms, I’ve been blown away by their balanced weight distribution and impressive focal range in such a compact size for full–frame cinema lenses. They deliver the same organic, pleasing look I’ve come to expect from the Arles line. Working in a verite–driven documentary environment, I don’t always have the luxury of using primes. The ability to cover a focal–length range of eight individual primes with a two–lens zoom set is a remarkable technical achievement.
Michael Richard Martin
Cinematographer
Solid, parfocal cine zooms for sensible money.
25–180mm covers everything you need for full-frame run-and-gun documentary shooting, with a decent T2.6 aperture. The warmer tones match the Vespid 2s perfectly, making them a great companion. Solid, parfocal cine zooms for sensible money.
Woody James
Cinematographer
Arles Zooms have a perfect balance between high quality image and practicality.
As someone that does a lot of documentary and outdoor filmmaking, most of the time on my own, cine zooms can become very useful and suited to my style of shooting and the kind of projects I work on. I've often said that a good cine zoom allows you to shoot anything from interviews, sport, documentaries and even drama or commercials. The Arles Zooms is like that, manage to strike a very good balance between high quality image and practicality.
Florent Piovesan - Of Two Lands
Cinematographer
The Arles Zooms are the Swiss Army Knife of lenses.
The Arles Zooms are the Swiss Army Knife of cinema lenses. You get that signature Arles look and character that I already love from the primes, but now with the speed, flexibility, and convenience of a zoom. Whether I’m moving fast on a production, reframing a shot without changing lenses, or just trying to keep my setup simple, I don’t feel like I’m sacrificing the image to get that versatility. They give me the cinematic look I want with the flexibility I actually need on set, and that makes them the kind of lenses I can see living on my camera for almost any production.
Armando Ferreira
Cinematographer
