BLACKWING7 Tuning Overview

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Every BLACKWING7 lens is hand-built in Germany in cooperation with a long-established and well-respected optical manufacturing firm. A proprietary production tuning process allows the optical performance of each lens in the range to be uniquely configured—tuned or toned— to their owner’s wishes and creative style. Three pre-set tonalities are available:

 

S STRAIGHT (Standard)

S-tuned BLACKWING7 lenses have a profile founded on lens designs from the first half of the 20th Century, such as the 1936 Kodak EKTAR 45 mm f/2, and the 1950 Wray UNILITE 50 mm f/2. Lenses have a simple one-layer coating and a smooth roll-off to their sharpness characteristic.

 

T TRANSIENT (Middle)

T-tuned BLACKWING7 lenses have a profile which further softens the roll-off to the edge of the frame, and provides increased edge detail halation. T lenses are designed to capture a slightly softer, artistic image, with a higher degree of light reactivity and flaring characteristics are harder and more prominent than with the S-tuned version.

 

X EXPRESSIVE (Extreme)

X-tuned BLACKWING7 lenses exaggerate the image roll-off to the edge of the frame, to the point where only low frequency performance is evident in the outer thirds of the frame. X-tuned optics have further exaggerated edge detail halation and a minor degree of spherical aberration and focal plane curvature, which exaggerates the effect of shallow depth of field. X-tuned lenses are designed for filmmakers who light aggressively and expect their lenses to offer luminous characteristics, especially with  hard lighting.