Canon CN-E18-80mm T4.4 L IS KAS S Cine Lens

The Canon CN-E18-80mm T4.4 L IS KAS S is a game-changing cine lens that unites the worlds of professional videography and casual filmmaking. It’s designed with the functionality and versatility to meet the demands of the modern filmmaking scene, blending high-performance optics, user-friendly features, and the durability expected from Canon's Cinema EOS lens lineup. This comprehensive overview delves into its design, performance, and professional features. The lens utilizes the widely compatible Canon EF mount, making it suitable for a wide range of cameras from Canon’s DSLRs to their Cinema EOS series, and compatible EF-mount Super 35mm cameras.

Engineered to cover Super 35mm and APS-C sensor formats, this lens is versatile across many shooting scenarios, from independent films to commercial shoots. It offers consistent exposure across the entire zoom range without the need for aperture adjustments during zooms, facilitating smooth exposure transitions and depth of field control. A broad 18-80mm zoom range makes it suitable for a variety of scenes, from wide landscapes to medium telephoto shots conducive to interviews and close-ups. A 9-Blade Iris produces aesthetically pleasing out-of-focus areas with a natural bokeh, enhancing the visual appeal of your footage. The parfocal design with minimal focus breathing maintains focus on a subject while zooming and minimizes the breathing effect, thereby upholding image consistency and reducing distractions in your footage.

Compatibility with Servo Lens Controllers allow for precise, remote control over zoom, focus, and iris, catering to broadcast or cinema production settings that require remote operation. The optional control grip enhances ergonomics, especially for handheld shooting, by offering convenient and intuitive control over zoom, focus, and iris directly from the handgrip. Image stabilization and autofocus support provides enhanced image stabilization, essential for hand-held shooting, and autofocus functionality suitable for EF mount camera systems. Its 180° rotation for focus offers a broad range of focus control, allowing for precise focus adjustments, especially useful in film production environments. Weighing approximately 1.2kg including the servo unit, this lens is notably lightweight for a cinema lens, contributing to its suitability for handheld and gimbal-based shooting.

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An affordable compact cine-servo lens bringing high-end features to a wider audience.
A revolution in video production. The large-format Canon CN-E18-80mm T4.4 L IS KAS S brings high-end quality cine-servo features like super-smooth servo zoom and focus at an affordable price point.

Professional cine optics for videographers
From movies and documentaries to weddings and corporate videos, the Canon CN-E18-80mm T4.4 L IS KAS S (Compact Cine Servo Lens) is designed to answer the needs of professional shooters and advanced amateur videographers. With a powerful 4.4x optical zoom and 18-80mm focal length, the lens is an ideal all-purpose lens, weighing only 1.2kg but including precise servo zoom and focus functions for a smooth professional look and feel in all your shots.

All the advantages of EF mount compatibility
Designed to work with compatible Canon EF mount video cameras, the Canon Compact Cine Servo Lens takes advantage of the huge range of Canon EF mount functions, including image stabilization and auto focus. Powerful Dual Pixel CMOS AF means you can quickly and accurately focus with a single push of a button, while continuous AF lets you track your subject without losing focus. Peripheral illumination correction helps maintain an even illumination across the entire frame, while the lens and camera will remain in constant communication, from lens metadata acquisition for easier post-processing to even allowing you to select a ‘T’ number or ‘F’ number on your camera’s display.

Beautiful bokeh
One of the hallmarks of great video is depth of field, helping draw the eye and focus the viewer’s attention on your subject. Achieving a distinctive, out-of-focus bokeh effect for your videos is simple – the Canon Compact Cine Servo Lens employs a 9-blade iris, resulting in points of light rendered in a pleasing bokeh that will make your work stand out.

Reduced focus breathing
Using still photography lenses for video projects means ‘focus breathing’ can be an issue. Focus breathing is the subtle distortion of perspective that takes place as a lens zooms in and out, but as a dedicated videography lens, the Canon Compact Cine Servo Lens has been engineered to reduce focus breathing and keep distortion to a minimum.

4K-quality optics
The Canon Compact Cine Servo Lens is built to be future-proof. Canon engineers have ensured its resolving power is accurate, from the middle of the lens to the edge, while its modulation transfer function (MTF) has been optimised for the requirements of 4K cameras. With reduced chromatic aberration and colour balance matched perfectly to other Canon Cinema EOS lenses, the Canon Compact Cine Servo Lens provides incredible image quality whether you’re shooting in 4K or HD.

Optional ZSG-C10 detachable servo grip
Designed exclusively for the Compact Cine Servo Lens, the optional Canon ZSG-C10 zoom grip creates whole new shooting opportunities, allowing super-smooth remote activation of the zoom servo and one-shot AF. Connected to the lens body via a 20-pin cable, the ZSG-C10 can be operated while mounted on the lens barrel (for comfortable shoulder-mounted shooting), or detached from the lens and used handheld. The ZSG-C10 includes an easy-to-control rocker switch, start/stop record button, one-shot autofocus button and an adjustable grip angle for optimal comfort.