Xelmus Apollo Anamorphic

On July 20, 2019 in the US, July 21 in France, the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. The retransmission of the incredible images of the success of this mission remains one of the most significant broadcast events of all time. To create these images, NASA selected, among other equipment, the lenses of a small French company : Angenieux optics. The Angenieux 6x25 zoom mounted on a Westinghouse camera and Angenieux 75mm prime lens on a Maurer 16mm camera were on-board the command module of Apollo 11.

Le 21 juillet 2019 en France, le 20 juillet aux Etats-Unis, le monde célèbre le 50^e anniversaire de la mission Apollo 11. La retransmission des images incroyables du succès de cette mission voyant l’homme marcher sur la Lune reste l’évènement télévisuel le plus marquant de tous les temps. Pour ces images, la NASA sélectionne, entre autres équipements, les optiques françaises Angénieux. Le zoom 6x25 sur caméra Westinghouse et la focale 75 mm sur caméra Maurer 16 mm sont à bord d’Apollo 11.

When I proposed this seminar to the AFC, I realized it was very ambitious. The idea was to give a two-and-a-half-hour overview of the anamorphic format, with a dozen clips ranging from 1959 to 2022. I was first joined by Thomas Favel, AFC, and we worked and discussed the themes and “playlist” in meetings over the course of six weeks. We were then joined two weeks ago by Pascale Marin, AFC, and Steeven Petitteville, AFC, who helped us finetune the presentation, adding a couple of other clips. Our meetings were the occasion for spirited discussions about anamorphic, cinematography, cinema … (BB)

At IBC this year, Angenieux had shown the New Optimo Ultra 12x Multi Format lens and the already popular Type EZ series, both for S35 & Full Frame cameras. After the success of the Optimo 44-440 A2S lens, Angénieux had also presented, for the first time in Europe, the Optimo 42-420 A2S Long Range Anamorphic lens for the High End Production market.

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.

Arri a présenté au NAB deux nouvelles focales pour la série Master Anamorphic, un 28 mm et un 180 mm, étendant ainsi la gamme dans les courtes et les longues focales.

Frank Dewaele, director of photography on Drift, is coming back to the specificities of this shooting which premiered at MicroSalon2017.

L’équipe TSF Caméra est fière d’avoir accompagné Antoine Roch, AFC, sur le tournage du prochain film de Yann Gozlan intitulé Un homme idéal, produit par 24/25 Films.
Particularité de ce film démarré fin mai 2014, ce sera le premier long métrage au monde à utiliser les nouveaux Cooke anamorphiques.

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.