Lenses

Angénieux announces a New Long Range Multi-Format Design Zoom Lens at IBC 2017 (booth number 12.E36) and continues to adapt its offer to the market trends by announcing new innovative zoom lens series. Following up the Angénieux Type EZ Series for S35mm and larger image formats recently unveiled at IBC 2016 for the growing corporate, documentary and owner-operator markets, Angénieux is now announcing at IBC2017 a new multi format 12x Optimo zoom lens for the high-end production market.

Way back when, the guidance counselor at her high-school in Lyon told her, in no uncertain terms, that "one should not choose photography as a profession because it [was] tantamount to choosing a life with no work, no money and no prospect." In short, the life of a gypsy.

On August 6 and August 9, 1945, two atomic bombs codenamed "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" wiped out the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in southern Japan, instantly causing over a hundred thousand casualties. More than anything, that traumatic dual event determined Tetsuo Nagata’s destiny.

The time: the 1980s. The place: A commuter train between Paris and the suburb of Chaville. On one of the faux-leather seats, lies a Leica R6 camera its owner must have left behind. A photo-loving teenager stares at it as if it were the Holy Grail. Honesty, however, along with the secret hope of - perhaps - recovering it some day, compels Guillaume Deffontaines to bring it to the railway company’s Lost and Found Department. His exceptional memory also brings him back to the Department — just in case! — exactly a year and a day later.

First things first. When you are the eldest son of a merchant navy captain whose ancestors, fishermen and sons of fishermen, came all the way from Ukraine..., when you were born and grew up in Marseilles as a certified "Corniche Kid" (the local equivalent to a Bow-bell Cockney)..., when you’d always dash wherever the fancy takes you - preferably beyond the horizon..., somehow, "moving up" to Paris to make movies in the 1980’s is not exactly the "normal" thing to do.

Evoking one’s debut as a cinematographer and remembering it as a professional experience at once too beautiful, too unexpected and too...special, inevitably makes one nostalgic. Furthermore, as one celebrates its 20^th anniversary, the phrase "track record" hits one in the face like a boomerang!

After twenty-six years of uninterrupted collaboration, Luc Besson’s cinematographer, Thierry Arbogast, was determined to surprise him. Again. Old couples must constantly reinvent themselves, mustn’t they? And so he did when they tested and tried whichever equipment they might eventually use for their next project, Valerian.

At the end of the last Claude Lelouch’s movie, Everyone’s Own Life and Intimate Conviction, Ariane Damain Vergallo met, on behalf of CW Sonderoptic-Leica, its director of photography, Robert Alazraki, AFC, and camera operator Berto, to talk about lenses, but not only...

As part of its development, Papa Sierra invests to better serve you and offer you even more possibilities with its new GSS C520.

Following, cinematographers Artur Zurawski, PSC, and Pawel Dyllus talk about the use of Angénieux Optimo 56-152 A2SC anamorphic zoom on one of their latest shooting.

For over 60 years the Leica M full frame lenses have inspired photographers and cinematographers alike with their unique interpretation of light, skin tones and color. The Leica M 0.8 lenses bring the iconic look and character of Leica’s legendary M glass directly to the world of moving pictures by making it easier than ever to work with these lenses in true cinema applications.

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.