Review of Recent Zoom Lens Developments for 35 mm Cinematography at Panavision

A series of high performance zoom lens objectives developed by Panavision over fifteen years, which are very popular in the motion picture (cine) industry, are described. Various aspects of four cine zoom lenses, including; definitions, development, specification, construction, aberrations and tolerances, are discussed.This paper was originally presented at the 2nd International Conference on Optical Design and Fabrication, ODF2000 which was held on November 15-17, 2000 at the International Conference Center, Tokyo, Waseda University, Japan.