ARRI Enso Prime Core Set (Available as FT or M Scale)

Overview
ARRI introduces its new Ensō Prime lens series, designed for corporate and commercial content creators and owner-operators at earlier stages of their careers. These lenses are compact, lightweight, and versatile, delivering exceptional images in almost any conditions. The Ensō lenses can be tuned with Ensō Vintage Elements to achieve different looks, combining German precision engineering with Japanese optical excellence.

One standout feature of ARRI Ensō lenses is their close focus capability, with a 1:4 magnification ratio on most focal lengths. The lenses offer a sharp and true yet gentle and natural look, but can be altered with Ensō Vintage Elements for a different aesthetic. The kit includes interchangeable optics that attach magnetically to the back of the lenses, providing external lens tuning options that go beyond conventional filters. Ensō lenses are designed to be reliable in any shooting environment, allowing users to focus on creativity without technical worries.

Summary
Focal Length:
105mm
18mm
24mm
32mm
47mm
75mm
Lens Mount: LPL Mount
Included in box
K0.0052483 ARRI Ensō Prime Core Set (F) Includes

KK.0049811 ARRI Enso Prime Kit 18, 24, 32 (F)

1x K2.0048082 ARRI Enso Prime 18/T2.1 F

1x K2.0048086 ARRI Enso Prime 24/T2.1 F

1x K2.0048090 ARRI Enso Prime 32/T2.1 F

1x K2.0050482 ARRI Enso Prime Set Case 18, 24, 32

KK.0049813 ARRI Enso Prime Kit 47, 75, 105 (F)

1x K2.0048094 ARRI Enso Prime 47/T2.1 F

1x K2.0048098 ARRI Enso Prime 75/T2.1 F

1x K2.0048101 ARRI Enso Prime 105/T2.1 F

1x K2.0050483 ARRI Enso Prime Set Case 47, 75, 105

KK.0049815 ARRI Enso Vintage Elements Kit

1x ARRI Enso VE 100P / VE 200P / VE 350P / VE 100N / VE 200N / VE 350N

1x ARRI Enso Creative Adapter + Retaining Rings

1x ARRI Enso VE Shim Set

1x Adjustable Torque Screwdriver

1x ARRI Enso Retaining Ring Tool

1x ARRI Enso Vintage Elements Case

K0.0052482 ARRI Ensō Prime Core Set (M) Includes

KK.0049812 ARRI Ensō Prime Kit 18, 24, 32 (M)

1x K2.0048083 ARRI Ensō Prime 18/T2.1 M

1x K2.0048087 ARRI Ensō Prime 24/T2.1 M

1x K2.0048091 ARRI Ensō Prime 32/T2.1 M

1x K2.0050482 ARRI Ensō Prime Set Case 18, 24, 32

KK.0049814 ARRI Ensō Prime Kit 47, 75, 105 (M)

1x K2.0048095 ARRI Ensō Prime 47/T2.1 M

1x K2.0048100 ARRI Ensō Prime 75/T2.1 M

1x K2.0048102 ARRI Ensō Prime 105/T2.1 M

1x K2.0050483 ARRI Ensō Prime Set Case 47, 75, 105

KK.0049815 ARRI Ensō Vintage Elements Kit

1x ARRI Ensō VE 100P / VE 200P / VE 350P / VE 100N / VE 200N / VE 350N

1x ARRI Ensō Creative Adapter + Retaining Rings

1x ARRI Ensō VE Shim Set

1x Adjustable Torque Screwdriver

1x ARRI Ensō Retaining Ring Tool

1x ARRI Ensō Vintage Elements Case

About the ARRI Enso Prime Core Set (Available as FT or M Scale)
ARRI introduces its new Ensō Prime lens series, to embrace corporate and commercial content creators and owner-operators at earlier stages of their careers. Small, portable, and versatile, Ensō lenses deliver exceptional images in almost any conditions. The beautifully smooth and balanced native look can be tuned with Ensō Vintage Elements, which attach to the back of the lenses, allowing many different looks to be achieved with a single, cost-effective lens set.

Ensō lenses combine German precision engineering with Japanese optical excellence. Simplicity and purity of purpose were guiding design principles and inspired the name Ensō, after the circular Zen calligraphy symbol. Creating an Ensō with a single brushstroke is an expression of nowness that requires emptying one’s mind of distractions and fully committing to the creative flow. ARRI Ensō lenses embody this philosophy by instilling the confidence to put aside technical concerns and focus on capturing the moment. Whether on a conventionally lit set or on fast-moving, lower-tier productions shot by small crews with minimal lighting, Ensō lenses can be relied upon to produce engaging, well-controlled images. It is this complete dependability in any shooting environment, combined with ARRI’s legendary build quality and climatic tolerances, that gives users the freedom to forget about technical worries and respond to their surroundings with unfettered creativity.

Close focus is a stand-out feature of ARRI Ensō lenses, with an impressive magnification ratio of 1:4 on most focal lengths, equivalent to 10” close focus on the 32 mm, which is only 3.7” from the front element. This facilitates beautiful close-up work, for example on product or food shoots, and the minimized breathing means focus racks have no discernible impact on framing. Stunning bokeh and fall-off round out the lenses’ emotive focus characteristics. Great care has been taken to balance the many optical parameters defining the native Ensō look, which is sharp and true, yet gentle and natural. But for projects that require a different look, ARRI provides the Ensō Vintage Elements— interchangeable optics that attach magnetically to the back of Ensō lenses. Far exceeding the scope of conventional filters, they offer quick and easy external lens tuning that incrementally shifts the look and feel of images. Building on what ARRI has learned from feedback about its Impression Filters for Signature lenses, Ensō Vintage Elements incorporate significant advantages. They come in more powerful strengths, producing images that are sharper in the center and therefore easier to focus, but with a stronger detuned effect at the edges of frame. They have encoded chips that convey metadata about shifts of focal length, T-stop, and focus to the camera, and from there to on-set monitors and postproduction. Focus scale changes caused by the Elements can even be compensated for automatically with the ARRI Hi-5 hand unit, whether crews decide to use the included lens shims or not.

The full kit of six Vintage Elements comes as standard with ARRI’s core set of six Ensō lenses. It includes three positive Elements of different strengths, producing smeary, soft-edged bokeh in the background and Petzval-like image swirl at the corners of frame. The three negative Elements have the opposite effect; out-of- focus background highlights have diffuse centers and bright outlines that overlap to create an edgier, more intrusive feel. The kit also includes an Ensō Creative Adapter, which lets users invent their own unique Elements for personalized external lens tuning. It comes with three retaining rings that allow different thicknesses of glass or other material to be used and held securely. Packing exceptional optical performance into a diminutive form factor, Ensō lenses are compact, lightweight, and portable, making them fast and easy to work with on set. Gear rings are in the same position on all 14 of the Ensō focal lengths, most of which are T2.1 and have a front diameter of 95 mm, so they can be swapped on the camera without disruption. The focal lengths in the core set will be the most frequently used, but the wide-angle 10.5 and 14 mm, as well as the telephoto 250 mm (350/500 mm with its included 1.4x/2x Extenders) allow Ensō shooters to meet even the most extreme visual demands.

ARRI Ensō lenses have been designed and priced to appeal to a wide range of image-makers, no matter where they are in their creative journeys. Choosing Ensōs is about making a safe, long-term investment in lenses that will be versatile and trustworthy career companions. Putting ARRI quality within the reach of corporate shoots, documentaries, and commercials that cannot afford big budgets or crews, Ensō lenses protect and enable their users, allowing them to develop, grow, and go with the creative flow.

18mm
Focal Length 18mm
T-stop 2.1
Close Focus 0.2 / 8″
Length 117mm / 4.6″
Weight(kg / lb) 1.4 / 3.1
Front Diameter 95
ARRI LDS-2 / Cooke /i Yes
24mm
Focal Length 24mm
T-stop 2.1
Close Focus 0.23 / 9″
Length 117mm / 4.6″
Weight(kg / lb) 1.4 / 3.1
Front Diameter 95
ARRI LDS-2 / Cooke /i Yes
32mm
Focal Length 32mm
T-stop 2.1
Close Focus 0.25 / 10″
Length 117mm / 4.6″
Weight(kg / lb) 1.4 / 3.1
Front Diameter 95
ARRI LDS-2 / Cooke /i Yes
47mm
Focal Length 47mm
T-stop 2.1
Close Focus 0.32 / 12.5″
Length 117mm / 4.6″
Weight(kg / lb) 1.3 / 2.9
Front Diameter 95
ARRI LDS-2 / Cooke /i Yes
75mm
Focal Length 75mm
T-stop 2.1
Close Focus 0.43 / 17″
Length 123mm / 4.8″
Weight(kg / lb) 1.5 / 3.3
Front Diameter 95
ARRI LDS-2 / Cooke /i Yes
105mm
Focal Length 105mm
T-stop 2.1
Close Focus 0.59 / 23.5″
Length 123mm / 4.8″
Weight(kg / lb) 1.6 / 3.5
Front Diameter 95
ARRI LDS-2 / Cooke /i Yes

14 primes from 10.5 to 250 mm (350/500 mmwith Ensō Extenders)
Different looks via external lens tuning with EnsōVintage Elements
Compact, lightweight, and flexible lensesdesigned for long ROI
1:4 magnification ratio for exceptionally closefocus
New Ensō look, which is sharp and true, yetgentle and natural