Tuesday, March 28. A group of cinematographers gathered at the Leica Store and Gallery in Beverly Hills for the worldwide launch of the new Leica Thalia Large Format Cine Primes. An ARRI Alexa with a case of XPL mounted Thalia lenses and a Panavision DXL camera with PL mounted Thalias were there to test. Videos shot with Thalia lenses by Colt Seman, Darius Khondji, Greg St. Johns, Eric Blanckaert, Ross Richardson, and others were screened. Similar Leica Thalia premieres will unfold in the coming days at theaters in Paris and London and at the Leica booth during NAB.

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Dr Aurelian Dodoc, Gerhard Baier

Alexa 65 with XPL mount

Round bokehs at all T stops

Panavision DXL with SP70 to PL mount

Dana Ross, Aurelian Dodoc

Vincent Laforet

Po Liu

Kevan Parker

Michael Keegan, Jarred Land, Colt Seman

Ashly Covington

Osamu Tsukada

Linus Sandgren, FSF

Vinent Laforet, Peter L. Collister, ASC

Rainer Hercher

Jacek Laskus, ASC

Rodrigo Prieto, ASC

Gerhard Baier John Schwartzman, ASC

Colt Seman

Stephen Pizzello

Steven Lipson, Brad Lipson, Thomas Miner

Chris Chomyn, ASC

Leica Store Manager James Agnew, Aurelian Dodoc, Kimberly James, Po Liu

Howard Preston