Athena Prime 40mm T1.9 – PL-Mount

NiSi 40mm Athena Prime T1.9 Full Frame Lens

Discover the latest member of our Athena Prime lens family: the NiSi 40mm Athena Prime T1.9 Full Frame Lens, designed to enrich your cinematic creations with innovative design and outstanding optical performance. Carefully developed to seamlessly integrate into the original Athena Prime series, this lens offers the same outstanding features, uniform weight, and synchronized positions of focus and iris rings to ensure a harmonious user experience across the entire product range.

Minimal Chromatic Aberration

Immerse yourself in the art of visual storytelling with unparalleled image quality thanks to the lens's superior micro-contrast control and minimal chromatic aberration. The result? Sharper, more detailed images that bring your creative vision to life. Combined with the large T1.9 aperture, it delivers stunning background separation and smooth, captivating bokeh - ideal for atmospheric shots with a pronounced sense of depth.

Consistent Field of View When Focusing

The lens is precisely engineered to minimize focus breathing, ensuring a consistent field of view when focusing, making it an indispensable lens for filmmakers who demand seamless focus movements and a consistent visual style in their work. The compatibility and uniform design with the rest of the Athena Prime series mean you no longer have to waste time rebalancing your gimbal when changing lenses; each lens in the series is identical in weight and size, allowing for an effortless transition.

300° Rotatable Focus Ring with Fluorescent Focus Scales

The 40mm Athena Prime also offers a 77mm filter thread, an 80mm clamp size, and matching aperture and focus rings for the entire series, simplifying the use of additional lens accessories. The 300° rotatable focus ring with fluorescent focus scales allows for unparalleled precision in focusing, ensuring sharp, dynamic shots even in low light conditions. 

Drop-In Filter Holder

The NiSi 40mm Athena Prime features a drop-in filter holder (only L-, RF-, E-, and PL-mount are equipped with a rear filter holder) that offers filmmakers unprecedented flexibility and creative control. This ingenious feature allows for the quick and easy addition of ND and gray filters directly on the back of the lens, optimizing workflow and protecting the lens from potential damage during filter changes.