French lens manufacturer, Angenieux, has been the industry leader in high end zooms for decades, and now they have added a line of full frame primes, so if you’re department is well-heeled, you’ll now have the option to match that opulence optic at fixed focal lengths. The set will eventually be comprised of twelve customizable lenses. The first of the set to step blinking into the sun was the 40mm at this year’s Cine Gear on the Paramount Lot. Read more below. Image Credit: Rin Ehlers Sheldon At the end of May, my colleague Olaf wrote about Angenieux’s original announcement HERE, so if you’re interested in these primes, be sure to give that article a read! With the announcement being so recent, we didn’t have high hopes that Angenieux would even bring the primes to Cine Gear this past weekend (May 31st-June 2nd), but we held onto the hope of seeing one in person. Walking past the Thales tent, it seemed business as usual, so we hurried off to a panel hosted by the Digital Cinema Society on full frame lens purchasing, where reps from almost every major manufacturer came to make the case for their glass. Art Adams from Arri told us PL was over and Les Zellen from Cooke said that “technology is wagging the dog.”(As usual, he also said we all owe any progress in optics and our first born children to Cooke, but he keeps that panel entertaining.) Amidst the throwing of the shade and the very cordial...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 11 June, 2019