ABOUT Indie Optics

Indie Optics is the first lens service center in New York. It was founded to fill a growing need of DPs, Rental Houses, and Production Companies looking for service on their growing arsenals of specialty glass.

The company was founded by Daniel Gurzi. Daniel has been involved with camera rental companies since 2006, and out of necessity learned as much about cinema lenses as possible along the way. In spending 10 years in two of the largest rental companies in NYC, and signing off on purchase orders in the tens of millions of dollars for camera equipment, Daniel forged relationships with countless brands and manufacturers of cinema products.

After working with rental houses, Daniel joined KitSplit, a gear sharing website, and immediately started networking with DPs, Producers, and Rental Houses all across the United States. It was here, in these interviews and quests to find equipment services that Daniel realized the void of local lens services on the East Coast to the thousands of individual operators and small businesses with serious glass collections.

Diving in, Daniel reached out to several lens technicians that he had met through the years and put together Indie Optics.

THE PRESENT

Indie Optics is located in Soho Manhattan, at 6th Ave and Spring and has been repairing lenses for all types of clients, both in the Tri-State area, as well as clients along the east coast.

Our technicians are factory trained at Angenieux, Canon, Cooke, and Zeiss, but so far we have yet to find a lens that we could not handle.

We are also modifying stills lenses to operate as cine lenses, and consulting on lens rehousings. Please contact us for more information on these activities.

Daniel Is also working closely with MYT Works on the roll out of the new Opti Glide Camera Checkout System, which was originally designed in collaboration with Daniel and MYT Works for one of Daniel's former rental house homes.