Angénieux
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Angénieux is a French optical company founded in 1936 and installed at Saint-Héand. It has made lenses for still and movie cameras, and for military applications.
In 1950, Angénieux released the first retrofocus lens, a design that allows to fit a wide-angle lens on an SLR without interfering with the moving mirror.
In 1958, it launched its first zoom lens for movie cameras. The idea of a zoom lens appeared early, and the first useable models for movie films appeared in the 1930s, but remained highly experimental. Angénieux is one of the first companies to have sold zoom lenses on a large scale, after Zoomar and SOM-Berthiot.
Angénieux built the first zoom lens for a Leica still camera, with the 45-90/2.8 zoom for the Leicaflex.
Angénieux stopped the production of still camera lenses in 1994. It continues to produce lenses for the movie and video industry, as well as other specialised applications.
The fast Angénieux 1:0,95/50 mm C-mount movie camera lens has recently had a small revival in popularity, thru the adaptibility of cine lenses onto new digital camera systems such as Micro Four Thirds and Sony NEX.
Cinema zoom lenses
35mm
- Angenieux 17-102mm T2.9
- Angenieux 20-120mm T2.9
- Angenieux 25-250mm HR T3.5
- Angenieux 25-250 T3.7 HP
- Angenieux 25-250mm T3.9
- Angenieux 35-140mm T4.4
Super 16
- Angenieux 11.5-138mm T2.3
- Angenieux 15-150mm T1.9
- Angenieux 15-150mm T3.1
- Angenieux 15-300mm T6
16mm
- Angenieux 9.5-57mm T1.9
- Angenieux 9.5-95mm T2.8
- Angenieux 10-150mm T2.3
- Angenieux 12-120mm T2.5
- Angenieux 12-240mm T4.2
