Super 35 Format And Lens

[4knewave]

Do you need specific lens's when shooting super 35? I know Cooke S4's cover the format but does that mean like Zeiss 35mm Superspeeds wont?

Does that also affect you on the Red Camera? For instance if your shooting 2.1 or the new 4.5k do you have to get specific Super 35 lens. If your shooting 2.1 will a basic 35mm Nikon SLR work on the Red?

Haven't worked with those formats but was reading about lens and how the S4's cover the Super 35mm format.

 

[David Mullen ASC]

Most 35mm cine lenses cover Super-35 fine, including any modern lenses like Cooke S4's. A few older zooms have some fall-off in the corners, but even the old Cooke 20-100mm zoom covers Super-35 (barely) -- especially if the final image is widescreen (16x9, 1.85, etc.) so the corners of 4x3 4-perf Super-35 are cropped out.

I'd check any really wide-angle older lenses though to make sure.

4.5K on the RED camera is Super-35 in area.

A Nikon prime is designed to cover Full-Frame 35mm (36mm x 24mm) so will definitely cover Super-35 (24mm x 18mm for 4-perf). Unless it's a Nikon made for the DSLR's with APS-C sensors, but even those are Super-35 in size so should cover. And even those DSLR Nikon primes may also be designed to cover FF35, I'm not sure.