NiSi ATHENA PRIME Rewind Full Frame Cinema Lens Kit with 5 Lenses 14mm T2.4, 25mm T1.9, 35mm T1.9, 50mm T1.9, 85mm T1.9 + Hard Case (PL Mount)

The NiSi ATHENA PRIME Rewind Full Frame Cinema Lens Kit (PL Mount) is a complete five-lens set designed for filmmakers who want a cohesive blend of vintage character and modern optical performance across a full range of focal lengths.

This kit includes 14mm T2.4, 25mm T1.9, 35mm T1.9, 50mm T1.9, and 85mm T1.9 primes, providing comprehensive coverage from ultra-wide to telephoto—ideal for everything from expansive establishing shots to intimate close-ups. All lenses are built for full-frame cameras, ensuring consistent image quality and coverage across professional cinema systems.

Part of the Rewind series, each lens delivers a unique dual-look rendering, combining vintage-inspired aesthetics—such as distinctive bubble bokeh and warm, cinematic flares—with the clarity, sharpness, and reliability of modern lens design. This allows filmmakers to achieve a stylized, filmic look while maintaining technical precision.

Engineered for professional workflows, all lenses feature 0.8 MOD gears and a long 300° focus rotation, enabling smooth and precise focus pulling. The uniform 80mm front diameter across the set ensures seamless compatibility with matte boxes and accessories, speeding up lens changes on set.

Optically, the lenses are designed to maintain minimal focus breathing and low chromatic aberration, ensuring consistent and clean visuals throughout focus transitions. The lenses also include dual measurement markings in both feet and meters, supporting international production environments.

For protection and transport, the kit comes with a durable hard case, keeping all five lenses secure and organized whether in storage or on location.

Combining a complete focal range, consistent build, and distinctive cinematic rendering, the NiSi ATHENA PRIME Rewind Full Frame Cinema Lens Kit is an excellent all-in-one solution for filmmakers seeking both creative character and professional reliability.

Product Features in Detail

The NiSi ATHENA PRIME Rewind Full Frame Cinema Lens Kit
The NiSi ATHENA PRIME Rewind Full Frame Cinema Lens Kit is a purpose-built set of five prime lenses designed for filmmakers and cinematographers who want the ability to shift between vintage-inspired character and modern optical precision within a single lens system. Featuring deliberate optical design adjustments that simulate film-era characteristics, the Rewind set offers a uniquely versatile creative tool for narrative, commercial, and documentary production.

Two Cinematic Looks from One Lens Set
The defining feature of the ATHENA PRIME Rewind is its ability to deliver two distinct optical personalities. Wide open at T1.9, the lenses produce a warm, vintage character with amplified aberrations, softened resolution, and enhanced foreground and background blur complete with halo effects on highlights. As the aperture is stopped down, these characteristics progressively diminish. By T2.8, cinematographers reach a balanced sweet spot between stylisation and sharpness, and by T5.6 to T8, the lens behaves close to a modern, clinically clean cinema lens. This gives directors of photography an intuitive creative dial, allowing them to adjust the visual feel of every shot without swapping glass or adding filtration.

Signature Bokeh and Flare Character
At wide apertures, the Rewind lenses produce distinctive bubble bokeh with bright edges and darker centres in out-of-focus highlights, most pronounced on the 35mm and 50mm focal lengths. This effect fades controllably by around T4.0, giving filmmakers precise control over background rendering. Flare intensity is significantly increased over the standard Athena Prime, delivering warm-toned flares that add atmosphere and energy to backlit scenes, practicals, and direct light sources. Combined with retained barrel distortion across all focal lengths, the Rewind set creates an organic, analogue visual texture that sets it apart from modern corrected optics.

Color Consistency and On-Set Flexibility
Despite its vintage optical character, the Rewind maintains color rendering that is highly consistent with the standard ATHENA PRIME set. This means cinematographers can freely intercut between Rewind and standard Athena lenses without requiring extensive color correction in post-production. Unlike the Tuned variant, which shifts toward yellow-green tones, the Rewind preserves neutral, natural colour fidelity, making it a practical and versatile choice for productions that require both character and clean footage within the same project.

Comprehensive Focal Range and Professional Build
The kit includes five prime lenses covering focal lengths from 14mm ultra-wide to 85mm portrait: 14mm T2.4, 25mm T1.9, 35mm T1.9, 50mm T1.9, and 85mm T1.9. All lenses provide full-frame coverage with a 46mm imaging circle, supporting the latest large-format cinema cameras. The set features matched weight and physical dimensions across all focal lengths, enabling seamless lens changes without gimbal rebalancing or matte box adjustments. Each lens includes a 300-degree focus ring with fluorescent focal scales for precise focus pulls in low-light conditions, along with a rear filter mount for gel and creative filter use.

Minimal Focus Breathing and Retained Character
The Rewind lenses deliver minimal focus breathing, ensuring a stable field of view during focus adjustments — an essential feature for professional pull-focus work in narrative and commercial production. Importantly, while aberrations and softness are amplified for the vintage look, chromatic aberration levels remain unchanged from the standard Athena Prime, meaning filmmakers gain stylistic character without the undesirable fringing artifacts that often accompany older lenses.

A Complete Creative System
Whether shooting intimate character-driven drama, stylised commercial content, or atmospheric documentary work, the NiSi ATHENA PRIME Rewind Cinema Lens Kit provides filmmakers with an unprecedented level of creative flexibility. The ability to transition from vintage warmth to modern clarity within a single lens set eliminates the need to carry multiple lens systems on set, reducing both cost and complexity while expanding the visual language available to every project. Supplied in a purpose-built hard case, the Rewind kit is ready for professional production from day one.

One Lens. Two Cinematic Personalities
The Rewind delivers a film-inspired vintage character wide open, then transforms into a clean, modern cinema lens when stopped down, giving filmmakers two distinct looks from one lens set.

Vintage Character with Modern Control
Through deliberate optical design, the Rewind simulates film-era lens characteristics including amplified aberrations, reduced resolution at wide apertures, and enhanced softness for an authentic vintage look without relying on actual old glass.

Adjustable Stylization via Aperture
Vintage character is strongest at T1.9, progressively diminishes through T2.8 (a balanced sweet spot), and by T5.6–T8 the lens behaves close to a modern cinema lens, providing a creative “dial” for cinematographers.

Distinctive Bubble Bokeh
At wide apertures, the Rewind produces signature bubble bokeh with bright edges and darker centres in out-of-focus highlights, most pronounced on the 35mm and 50mm, and controllable as it fades by approximately T4.0.

Warm, Expressive Flares
Flare intensity is significantly increased over the standard Athena Prime with a warm color tone, adding cinematic character to backlit scenes and practical lighting setups.

Color Consistent with Standard Athena Prime
The Rewind’s color rendering closely matches the standard Athena Prime, making it easy to intercut or mix both lens sets on set without post-production color correction.

Comprehensive 5-Lens Focal Range
Full-frame coverage from 14mm ultra-wide to 85mm portrait, with a 46mm imaging circle supporting all full-frame cinema cameras and larger format sensors.

300° Focus Ring with Fluorescent Scales
Precision focus pulls are made easy with 300 degrees of rotation and fluorescent focal markings for visibility in low-light shooting environments.

Matched Weight and Size Across All Lenses
Seamless lens swapping without the need for gimbal rebalancing, rig adjustment, or matte box reconfiguration, saving valuable time on set.

Rear Filter Mount for Creative Flexibility
Built-in rear filter slot allows for quick gel and filter changes without disturbing the front of the lens, maintaining a streamlined workflow.

Minimal Focus Breathing
Ensures a consistent field of view during focus adjustments, critical for cinematic pull-focus work and professional video production.

Retained Barrel Distortion for Organic Feel
All Rewind lenses preserve barrel distortion, contributing to the organic, analogue character that distinguishes them from clinically corrected modern optics.