Ignacio Aguilar
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We just shot this quick test of the classic Angenieux zoom. Hope you will enjoy it!
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Angenieux 25-250mm f3.2 - T3.9 (1960's zoom lens) Test
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We just shot this quick test of the classic Angenieux zoom. Hope you will enjoy it!
Ilya O.
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Thanks, Ignacio, I've enjoyed it much!
I so like the picture character at moderate zoom levels, so smoothy and yet detailed.
Obviously the lens is calculated and thus corrected around the wide end.
Why did you choose f11? I that because of the lens becomes clear only at this f-stop? What about lets say f5.6?
I so like the picture character at moderate zoom levels, so smoothy and yet detailed.
Obviously the lens is calculated and thus corrected around the wide end.
Why did you choose f11? I that because of the lens becomes clear only at this f-stop? What about lets say f5.6?
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Ignacio Aguilar
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Hello Ilya,
When I was testing the lens, I found it hard to believe that so many classic movies used this lens so extensively, since its performance is so-so (at best) at most apertures and focal lenghts.
I decided to use T4 (or T3.9) and T11 just to make things easy. I had just a clapperboy for help shooting this and T4 needed an internal ND 2.1 on the Mini and T11 was the next below, ND 1.2. I also had to make some ISO adjustments due to some weather changes while shooting this.
At T5.6 the lens improves but begins to be acceptable at the T8-T11 range. Of course, nowadays what most people would like about this lens is all the aberrations shown wide-open I guess!
When I was testing the lens, I found it hard to believe that so many classic movies used this lens so extensively, since its performance is so-so (at best) at most apertures and focal lenghts.
I decided to use T4 (or T3.9) and T11 just to make things easy. I had just a clapperboy for help shooting this and T4 needed an internal ND 2.1 on the Mini and T11 was the next below, ND 1.2. I also had to make some ISO adjustments due to some weather changes while shooting this.
At T5.6 the lens improves but begins to be acceptable at the T8-T11 range. Of course, nowadays what most people would like about this lens is all the aberrations shown wide-open I guess!
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