Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Angenieux
From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:55:47 -0400
References: <39CE2E8F.11ADAD63@rabiner.cncoffice.com>

Angenieux's current production video lenses are very nice.  They have a nice
very wide angle zoom that has changed the way we shoot a lot of our
programs.  Bokeh is not as nice as the standard zoom and it is a little soft
zoomed all the way in.

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
To: "leica-users" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: [Leica] Angenieux


> http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/third/cult.html#angenieux
> >From the above very cool site on cult lens companies.
> "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)."
>
> What does anybody think about Angenieux? Anybody use them on thier Leica
R's or Nikons?
> Mark W. Rabiner
> :)
>

In reply to: Message from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> ([Leica] Angenieux)