DZOFilm Pavo 100mm 2x Anamorphic T2.4 PL & EF Mount (S35) Neutral

Completing a Pavo B set takes one lens and no new accessories. The DZOFilm Pavo 100mm 2x Anamorphic T2.4 PL & EF Mount Neutral joins the 32 and 55 mm with the same 95 mm front for the matte box and the same M86 filter thread. Its 0.8 MOD gears line up with theirs, so swapping to it leaves the follow-focus geometry untouched. No lens in the six-lens kit is longer, and it handles tight singles and product close-ups from further back. At a chess tournament, it frames a player weighing a move from behind the spectators' rope.

The 2x anamorphic squeeze is constant and the 31.5 mm image circle is sized for Super 35. Optics count 14 elements in 13 groups, as on the 55 mm; 16 iris blades keep defocused highlights evenly oval. At T2.4 it is a little over a third of a stop slower than the T2.1 Pavos: a single third-stop step of light or ISO from a wide-open 55 mm. In a leather-goods spot, a handbag on a plinth holds sharp while LED fixtures far behind dissolve into large ovals.

With its neutral coating, the lens tints nothing: a horizontal streak takes the colour of its source. A bartender flaming an orange peel sends an orange line across the frame; a white spotlight, a white one. Such streaks are the exception. The cylindrical group sits after the focusing elements, holding back stray light, and hands-on reviews found it takes a hard source aimed into the lens, usually the sun, to trigger one. Focus reaches 0.95 m from the sensor plane, enough for a technician's pipette over a sample tray to fill a biotech insert.

The factory mount is PL; an EF bayonet with its rear cap comes packed alongside, together with screws, a screwdriver and shims. DZOFilm's swap procedure leaves the shims unused, and built-in back focus corrects 0.2 mm each way, lens mounted. The focus ring travels 270° over metric markings. DZOFilm's online table and its manual list different iris throws, 69° and 76°, so map the iris motor on the lens itself. There is no electronic interface. Behind a Marlin 1.6x Expander (sold separately), the lens covers full frame, VistaVision included, as a 160 mm near T4. Commercially: one long anamorphic for any PL or EF camera, with a route onto larger sensors.