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Manufacturer description #1

December 8, 2018 - KIPON announced ELEGANT series lenses, world-first full-frame lenses for new Nikon Z mount and Canon R mount cameras from third-party.

After 6 years non-stop learning for how to make high quality lenses, KIPON accumulated rich experience now. The reason why we use ELEGANT to name this lineup is because we want to transfer exactly how we develop these lenses from design to manufacture. They are consistent with our inertial thinking and philosophy about developing products in our company.

Manufacturer description #2

2022 version lenses manufactured more precisely, with tighter tolerances and highest optical performance. According to our production plan, whole set of lenses (24mm - 35mm - 50mm - 75mm - 90mm) will be available before the end of Sep 2022. A lens hood will be supplied with the 2022 version lenses.

From the editor

A family of lenses with practical focal lengths and a moderately fast speed of F/2.4, designed for Canon EOS R series / Nikon Z series 35mm full-frame cameras. The idea of ​​creating this family was, of course, borrowed from LEICA, which released the Summarit-M F/2.5 series lenses in 2007 and the Summarit-M F/2.4 series lenses in 2014. But if LEICA managed to create compact and lightweight lenses with simple optical formulas, well suited for street or travel photography, then Kipon has only a simple optical design out of all three components of success, and the lenses are not the lightest and are definitely not compact. But at least they do look elegant. However, we should also thank LEICA for this, since it was their design of the lens barrel that was clearly borrowed here.

All lenses have a "dumb" mount with no electrical contacts, so aperture control, let alone focusing, must be done manually. Focal length of the lens, maximum speed and selected aperture are not transmitted to the camera. But at least the lenses have convenient, useful focusing distance and depth of field scales. The rotation angles of the manual focusing ring range from 90° with the 90mm lens to 120° with the 24mm and 35mm lenses.

All lenses have 6 aperture blades, except for the 90mm, which has 10. In principle, this is not very critical, since it is assumed that you will take pictures with a blurred background only at F/2.4 when the aperture is fully open and perfectly round.

All lenses use the same size filters (49mm), which is very convenient. From 2022 onwards, all lenses come with bayonet-type lens hoods: most lenses have petal-shaped hoods, and only the 90mm has a round hood.

The Elegant 24/2.4 lens was also released in a version with the LEICA M mount. We decided to record it in the database separately.

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