Lenses

IBC 2016 – Amsterdam Sept 9 /13 - Angénieux new Type EZ Series!
Angenieux, in collaboration with BandPro and Jebsen, will unveil at IBC 2016 a new lens range: two fast and light weight zoom lenses covering S35mm and larger image formats for cine and broadcast productions. Join us at IBC booth 12.E33.

At the extremely well visited CW Sonderoptic booth at the AFC Micro Salon we started a discussion with cinematographer Yves Cape about a shared passion for pictures. A few days later we continued the feverish conversation for over two hours.

First production units of Angenieux 30-72mm AS2 Anamorphic lens are making a splash on the set of Star Trek Beyond (2016) with Cinematographer Stephen Windon ACS, ASC.

Adapted from Jiang Rong’s best-seller in China, Wolf Totem has been shot in 3D by Jean-Marie Dreujou, AFC, talked about his experience with Angénieux lenses during the shooting.

Thales Angénieux is honored to be the recipient of the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC) "Bert Easey Technical Award", presented at the annual BSC Operators Night on Friday 28^th November 2014 at Gibson Hall in London. This award was named in honor of Bert Easey, who, in 1947, was head of the camera department at Denham and Pinewood Studios and was integral in the formation of the BSC. The award is given to "an individual or company who has contributed something outstanding in the way of endeavor or equipment."

Remember 50 years ago... On July 31, 1964 Ranger 7 took the first pictures at close range of the Moon. These pictures were made by Angenieux 25mm f: 0.95 M1 lenses.
The Ranger program was a series of nine unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s, between 1961 and 1965, whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon: large-scale topographic information needed for the Surveyor and Apollo projects.

After Coldplay and Andrea Boticelli’s concerts in 2012, Muse’s concert in July 2013 4K Live records by United, a dutch subsidiary of Euro Media Group, Euro Media Group was on BNP Paribas Tennis Masters in Bercy (Paris). On the 4 Sony F55 cameras were used 2 PL mount Angénieux zoom lenses : the Optimo 28-340 and the Optimo 15-40. Ronald Meyvisch, New Technology Officer by Euro Media Group gave Angénieux his feedback.

I met Philippe Parain during the presentation of the new Fuji film, on the 24^th of September last year.

In discussing the quality of the Angénieux zooms, I told him of my "doubts" about the historical flaws, particularly distortions.

On Thursday, November 26, after giving a presentation at the Architectural School of Saint-Etienne, I took advantage of the proximity of St. Héand, and visited Angénieux.