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WTB Angenieux 12-240

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Hi
I am looking to but an Angenieux 12-240mm zoom in a good condition.
With PL mount but i will consider also the possibility of adding the mount myself.
Please PM me.
 
Ewww, really? You want one of those? Try eBay for a couple of hundred buck tops. You do know this ancient glass is only good for 2K on your RED?

Hey, it did the trick for the opening shot of A Clockwork Orange with a 1.6x extender to cover 35mm 1.66, so maybe that's what you're thinking. Of course Kubrick hand-picked his lens from the Angenieux factory.
 
12x240 ANGENIEUX

12x240 ANGENIEUX

I think I can find one of these for you but it will be in a C Mount. or possible at best an Arri Bayonet.
You do realize that this lens is ramped Iris and you only get the full 20-1 range at 5.6 or below. Angenieux used to do this when they could not get any quality unless stopped down. The 2.8 stop is only something like 20 - 240mm from memory, which has faded a little.
Let me know. Regards Tonycovell@talktalk.net. London.
 
Tony,

Are you sure about that. I believe the f stop was constant. I think the Kubrick 12-240 conversion used a 2x extender which resulted in around T9 or so.
 
Kubrick used a 1.6x as that would allow the lens to just barely cover a 1.66 frame on standard Academy 35mm.

For those that don't know, this was for the opening shot of A Clockwork Orange, which starts with an extreme closeup of Malcome MacDowell's face and zooms out slowly to a wide shot of the Milk Bar set. Kubrick needed the 20x zoom range of the little Ang. lens and there was no equivalent in 35mm format.
 
Sure I'm Sure ! Maybe you go up when I go down, a figure of speech BUT Mitch is correct. AT T9 everything is sharp and you will get the full range.
Kubrik may have had the iris removed and gone for a straight T stop he did all sorts of weird things for a one off shot. Later Samuelsons produced a 35mm 20x1 zoom which was the end shot in the True life Hanratty? movie with Richard Attenborough playing the killer who used baths of acid, Ughh.:sad: The shot pulls out along the London Embankment. Parts of the 12x240 were used on this lens. More I cannot remember.
Regards
Tony Covell
 
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