Old Fast Glass is a Los Angeles based rental house, specializing in high-end digital cinema cameras, as well as 35mm, 16mm, and 8mm film cameras, cinema lenses, and a huge selection of professional camera accessories. We have a 9000 square foot facility complete with many spacious prep bays, a lens test studio, and a friendly staff ready to help you select the right gear for your shoot, as well as assist you with your camera prep.

We have amazing relationships with cinematographers who come to us specifically for our unique lens collection, and our knowledge of pairing the right lenses to a project. We have one of the largest collections of vintage cinema lenses in the world, and a quickly growing inventory of modern cinema lenses as well, with amazing options for spherical and anamorphic, primes and zooms, large format, Super 35mm, and Super 16mm.

Our website has individual pages for each lens set, as well as every zoom and specialty lens. We are continuing to add test videos, as well as videos shot by our clients to help you choose the right lens for your project.

Old Fast Glass has the highest standards when it comes to the equipment we provide. Our gear is serviced regularly, as well as tested, cleaned, and inspected after every shoot. We have our own diagnostic equipment on site, so we can assure the gear you are getting is going to be ready and reliable. We also carry multiples of almost everything in our inventory, including lenses, so if our equipment does have any issues, we can almost always provide a replacement.

We have an 1100 square foot lens test studio on site. So if you are not sure which lenses are right for your project, please call or email us to set up an appointment for a lens test. We can provide the camera, camera accessories, lighting, and of course the lenses. We also offer Frame IO’s amazing Camera to Cloud service so that your lens test footage is instantly available in the cloud from your computer, phone, or tablet, and sharable with anyone on your team.

Please don't hesitate to contact us, whether you are looking for a quote, to schedule a lens test, or if you just want to talk lenses.


If you’re interested in learning more about our approach to lenses and lens testing, Frame IO produced a short behind-the-scenes video about Old Fast Glass.

You can also read the full article on the Frame IO blog site.


Many of you know us for our lens tests. If you are not familiar with our Ultimate Cinema Lens Library, we encourage you to go down the rabbit hole and explore our lens tests of 40 sets of cinema lenses. More Info

Compare 40 sets of lenses on the Quad Player


Check out these 2 episode of the Cinematography Salon podcast where Old Fast Glass’ Mark LaFleur talks lenses with cinematographers Peter Pascucci & Oren Soffer.


Below are some images from our Instagram feed.

 

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