Laowa Ranger S35 17-50mm T2.9 Cine Lens (Lite, PL Mount)
Introducing the highly anticipated Ranger S35 Compact Cine Zoom Series, featuring the 11-18mm T2.9, 17-50mm T2.9, and 50-130mm T2.9 lenses. With an impressive total zoom range of over 11X, this series sets a new benchmark for the s35 market. Notably, each lens weighs a mere 745g to 865g, ensuring unmatched portability and versatility for productions of all sizes. Experience the freedom of lightweight excellence with this remarkable lens set, perfect for on-the-go shooting.
This game-changing set offers parfocal design, ensuring precise focus control while zooming, complemented by a constant large T2.9 aperture for capturing in dim lighting or bokeh-ish backgrounds. These parfocal lenses are also built with extremely close focusing distances and minimal focus breathing, the set simplifies the creation of cinematic masterpieces. Filmmakers enjoy unparalleled flexibility, easily adapting to a gimbal, car rig, or handheld setups with this incredibly lightweight lens set, to experience the creative control for one’s storytelling needs.
Widest and Lightest Cine S35 Zoom lenses
The Ranger s35 Compact Cine Zoom Series has the widest 105.3° AoV in the super 35 cine zoom lens market. Each lens is around 800g/ 1.76lbs which reduces so much weight for the set-up and makes shooting much easier. It is favorable for filmmakers to travel around shooting from landscape to people with this compact lens set.
Constant T2.9 aperture
The Ranger s35 lenses deliver consistent exposure up to T2.9 throughout the versatile zoom range. The large aperture facilitates effortless operation in low-light environments, ensuring seamless performance even in dimly lit conditions, and you can capture bokeh-ish backgrounds and add a taste of aesthetic to your story.
Parfocal design
The s35 Ranger maintains precise focus with their excellent parfocal design. The subject would stay sharp and in focus whenever zooming in or out.
Well-controlled with almost no focus breathing
The s35 Ranger Series features virtually imperceptible focus breathing, guaranteeing seamless focus transitions and preserving the frame of your shots. Filmmakers can confidently deliver their stories without any visual disruptions, ensuring an immersive cinematic experience.
An extremely close focusing distance
Laowa excels at engineering lenses with exceptional close focusing distances, even for zoom lenses. Having 36,35, and 75cm minimum focusing distance respectively, you can capture all the explicit details of any subject and tell your story in various framing.
Exceptional image quality
With their high optical performance, the Ranger lenses deliver exceptional image quality and natural color rendering. Whether you're shooting wide open or at a close focus, these lenses maintain sharp, contrast, and accurate color reproduction, allowing you to capture stunning visuals every time.
Offering more than 11X zoom range
With an impressive and expansive zoom range from 11mm to 130mm, these lenses provide limitless creative freedom. Filmmakers can perform different zoom effects and the 11X zoom ratio creates an even more dramatic tension to the scenes. The Ranger s35 sets a new benchmark in the cine zoom lens market, delivering the widest range available while maintaining a compact size.
Lightweight and compact
The Ranger S35 lenses revolutionize convenience and mobility, weighing in at just ~800g (1.76lbs) each. Its remarkably light and compact design ensures it is the ideal companion for a wide range of shooting setups. Whether mounted on gimbals, shoulder rigs, car rigs, or handheld configurations, these lenses offer unparalleled versatility. Filmmakers now enjoy exceptional flexibility in shooting across various production types, without compromising on quality or convenience.
Professional cine housing
As the ultimate set for productions of all scales, the Ranger s35 series is built with professional cine housing. All 3 lenses have a 77mm filter thread and an 80mm outer diameter, filmmakers can directly use the set with screw-in filters or a matte box. There are dual scales with feet and meters displayed on the lenses. The 0.8 mod gears and threads for mounting lens support and other utilities ensure compatibility and ease of use for professional filmmakers.
Native PL mount and 6 additional mounts available
The lenses come with a native ARRI PL mount and we offer additional user-interchangeable bayonets including Canon EF, Canon RF, Fuji X, Sony E, Nikon Z and L mount for filmmakers to use on various cameras.
Lens Specifications (17-50mm)
Lens Name | Laowa Ranger S35 Compact Cine Zoom Series |
Focal Length | 17-50mm |
Aperture Range | T2.9-22 |
Format | Super 35 |
Image Circle Diameter | Ø31.5mm |
Angle of View | 80.6°-32.2° |
Lens Structure | 22 elements in 18 groups |
Aperture Blades | 11 |
Focus Throw | 270° |
Zoom Throw | 100° |
Aperture Throw | 42° |
Min. Focusing Distance | 35cm/ 13.78’’ |
Focus Indicator | Metric & Imperial (Dual Scale) |
In-focus Driving Mode | Manual (MF) |
Max. Magnification | 0.22X |
Gear Mod | 0.8 Mod |
Dimensions for Filter Thread | Ø77mm |
Front Diameter | Ø80mm |
Dimensions | Ø80*117mm/ 3.15’’*4.61’’ |
Weight | Standard: ~865g/~1.9lbs Lite: ~775g/~1.7lbs |
Mounts | ARRI PL (Optional: Canon EF, Canon RF. Sony E, Nikon Z, Fuji X, L Mount) |
What's in the box
- Laowa Ranger S35 17-50mm T2.9 Cine Lens (Lite, PL Mount)
- Barcode: 73728
- UPC Barcode: 6940486708646
- Supplier Code: RANL1750PL