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Munich lens house doing two things at once: its own cine designs (Genesis, Ayana) and rehousings of other makers' glass (Stealth). Its vintage variants are newly built, not old.
Gecko-Cam transforms vintage photo lenses into professional cinema glass: genuine PL mounts, uniform front diameters, cine gears, parfocal adjustment. The Genesis G35 Vintage '66 — rehoused Carl Zeiss Jena from the GDR — has achieved its own cult status.
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