SIRUI Factory Tour - See How Your Sniper and Saturn Lenses Are Being Made

Here at CineD, we are proud to expose companies from our industry by conducting engaging factory tours, and this time, we are visiting SIRUI Optical. This company specializes in manufacturing camera accessories, lights, and tripods, yet is best known for producing affordable anamorphic and manual/autofocus lenses. The company is situated in Zhongshan City in the Guangdong province of China, and during this visit, we concentrated on documenting how some of their lenses are being made.

SIRUI Sniper f/1.2 Autofocus 3-Lens Kit (Sony E)

SIRUI Saturn T2.9 1.6x Carbon Fiber Full-Frame Anamorphic 3-Lens Set (Sony E)
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[pockettime]

Thank you for going to open various factories. Makes product lines more courageous to reveal themselves through the media.

[productions]

This has become my go to lenses when looking for great quality ata good price and not having to drop more than a grand. I understand that they are young to the lens business, but oh what a good job they are doing. Amazed and looking for more of their lenses, cuz im in the SIRUI LENS look out they are great product at a great price so far SNIPER is my best set. That did not cost me more than a grand for 1 lens

[cgustaff]

Chinese companies are doing what Japanese manufacturers did back in the 60's and 70"s, learn from the Germans, Swiss and make them cheaper and perhaps better. Having an inside look at not only the technical but the human elements involved is most welcomed. Bring us more of these. Thank you.

[TheVitalishe]

Just bought Sirui monopod and so far very impressed with its quality, which sparked my interest in the company.
Their recent venture into lens design is a new level of challenge. Best of luck to the company.

[KevinvanDiest]

Very very nice. Great to have a look inside sirui factory! Also says a lot about their quality and confidence.

[stewartmoore]

That was your best interview so far Johnny - fascinating interview with the company president and factory tour. I'm personally very happy with my SIRUI Jupiter Full-frame Macro Cine Lenses T2 24mm.

[verebellus]

so many people insists on it being pronounced "su-ray" but hearing it pronounced "si-rui" makes so much sense

[sturmn]

Fantastic video! I own (and love) the SIRUI Saturn set of 3 lenses, so it was awesome to be able to see where they were made!

[sandb]

Impressive. I like the fact that they assemble in a clean room. If there had been no mention of China, I'm sure many viewers would have thought they were seeing a Japanese operation.

[yuidfbse]

Great video, thank you for sharing :)

[pomanprod]

I have the Sirui 135 T2.9 1.8x FF anamorphic and I'm impressed with its image quality. Looking to get the lighter Saturn 75mm 1.6x FF anamorphic next.

[halocinematic]

Did you get any insight if they're finally producing a PL mount anamorphic?

[lionelh]

Great company and a trusted after sales service.

[zrepe]

The best chromatic aberration master lens manufacturer for cheap :)))

[zeroken]

I hope them release MFT version of all AF F1.2 lens

[lorenzogattaldo]

04:44 to 06:28 well, I didn't understand a word, and there are no subtitles...

[GLAJMAN]

Great video and cool people from China.

[felipehenaovideo]

Interesting but checking their lenses did not find any EF Lenses.

[sa.t.]

The subtitles are missing when he speaks Chinese