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Subject: [OM] Re: olympus-digest V2 #1414
From: "Rick Beckrich" <RBeckric@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 12:43:39 -0500
Angenieux made excellent cine lenses that were used on 16mm cameras by 
newshawks and documentarians alike... Anyone remember when TV news was shot 
with a real camera ? ;o) 

Rick in VA

>>> "Joseph Chen" <chenjoseph@xxxxxxxxxxx> 02/03 10:49 AM >>>
Regarding the Angenieux lens, I copied the following text from R. Monahan's 
excellent third party lens site,
http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/third/cult.html 


Angenieux is a French third party lens manufacturer that ranks with 
Schneider and Zeiss as one of the world's top lens makers.

Angenieux lenses are unfamiliar to most 35mm SLR users because they are very 
expensive and come in only a few mounts, chiefly Leica. To a Leica user, a 
top
quality Angenieux 70-210mm f/3.5 zoom for only $1,845 in 1983 is a bargain 
;-) (that's $3,000+ in today's 1998 dollarettes).

Some of their earlier preset lenses were much less expensive, but still 
multiples of the cost of similar speed and focal length lenses. Still, the 
name is generally
associated with top optical quality, despite Angenieux's status as a third 
party lens maker from a country (France) not generally associated with 
manufacturing
35mm SLR optics.
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