DZOFilm Vespid Prime 100mm T2.1 PL Mount (VV/FF)

Long-lens framing has a different discipline than wider coverage: it must hold faces, products and distant details without making the image feel clinical. DZOFilm Vespid Prime 100mm T2.1 PL Mount (VV/FF) gives cinematographers that compressed telephoto perspective with Vista Vision / full-frame coverage from a 46.5 mm image circle. On large-format cameras it supports interviews, beauty close-ups, branded content, table-top shots and narrative inserts where background separation matters as much as sharp subject detail.

The optical formula uses 9 elements in 7 groups, with APO-type correction across the Vespid line to keep colour fringing under control on highlights, skin edges and reflective objects. A T2.1 to T22 aperture range lets crews move from low-key interiors to controlled studio lighting without changing focal length. The 16-blade iris keeps out-of-focus highlights round, so product packaging, practical lights and night backgrounds can remain smooth rather than nervous. A close-focus distance of 0.7 m from the sensor plane makes the lens useful for tight hands, props and detail cutaways, not only classic portrait distance. Reduced focus breathing also helps rack-focus moves stay controlled in dialogue and product shots.

For ACs and camera operators, the mechanics are fully manual and predictable. The focus ring rotates through 270°, giving enough travel for measured pulls between eyes, hands and foreground objects. The iris ring has an 83° rotation, helpful for exposure trims during commercial or documentary takes. Standard 0.8 MOD cine gears allow follow focus units and lens motors to engage directly, while the PL mount keeps the lens at the expected cinema flange depth for PL-mount cinema cameras and PL-adapted bodies.

The 100mm focal length also has a practical role inside a Vespid Prime set. It matches the series’ manual control philosophy and image character, so a crew can move from 35 mm or 50 mm coverage to a tighter shot without a drastic change in contrast, bokeh shape or accessory placement. For EU production companies, rental houses and in-house content teams, this full-frame cine prime lens brings a clean telephoto angle to controlled interviews, music videos, commercial inserts, corporate films and multi-camera productions.