Company Summary

Angénieux

Company Website: www.angenieux.com
Duclos Page: www.ducloslenses.com/pages/angenieux
Angénieux is a French lens manufacturer established in 1935, now part of the Thales Group. Pioneered the retrofocus lens concept allowing for smaller, more accurate wide angle lenses for SLR cameras.

Lens Models

Cine Lenses

Angénieux Bolex Zoom 12-120mm T2.2
Angénieux 20-120mm T2.9
Angénieux HR 25-250mm T3.5
Angénieux HP 25-250mm T3.7
Angénieux 25-250mm T3.9

Still Lenses

Angénieux 28-70mm f/2.6
Angénieux 70-210mm f/3.5

Assorted / Vintage

Angénieux R7 5.9mm T2.0
Angénieux R41 15mm f/1.3
Angénieux P1 90mm f/1.8

Angénieux 5.3-64mm f/1.8
Angénieux HR 7-81mm T2.4
Angénieux 8-64mm f/1.9
Angénieux 9.5-57mm T1.9
Angénieux 10-120mm T2.0
Angénieux 11.5-138mm T2.3
Angénieux 12-120mm T2.6
Angénieux 12-240mm f/3.5
Angénieux Type 6 12.5-75mm f/2.2
Angénieux 15-150mm T3.1
Angénieux Type L3 17-68mm T2.2
Angénieux HR 17-102mm T2.9
Angénieux 17.5-70mm T2.5
Angénieux 35-140mm T2.2

Key Figures

Pierre Angénieux (b. July 14, 1907 - d. June 26, 1998])

History

1907
Pierre Angénieux was born on July 14, 1907 in SaintHéand, France—a quiet hilltop village of 4,000 about an hour’s drive southwest of Lyon.
1928
He graduated with a degree in engineering from l’Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Cluny. A year later, he received a degree as optical engineer from the Ecole Supérieure d’Optique, where he was enrolled in the optical design class of Henri Chrétien (inventor of the anamorphic widescreen process for motion pictures that became Cinema Scope).
1930
Pierre Angénieux joined Pathé, a leading company in the French motion picture business at the time. This was his introduction to the world of cinema, which he never left. Later, he worked with André Debrie, manufacturer of professional cameras and projectors.
1932
Pierre Angénieux worked as a chief engineer of cinema lenses at OPTIS. He and two colleagues then established their own company, ASIOM (Association Scientifique et Industrielle pour l’Optique et la Mécanique), renting space in the building of his former school at 39 rue de Lyon, Saint-Héand.
1935
The photography and motion picture business was doing well. Pierre Angénieux, 28 years old, opened a workshop in Paris at 7 rue Henri Murger (19th Arrondissement).
1937
The company grew. A second workshop was set up back in the village school at Saint-Héand. From then on, mechanical parts were manufactured in Paris and optical parts in SaintHéand. Pierre Angénieux stayed in contact with prominent filmmakers, including Jean Renoir and Abel Gance.
1938
During the war years, Pierre designed and manufactured lenses in limited quantities for 24×36 format still cameras— mainly for the Swiss Alpa SLR. From 1938, his first lenses were engraved “P. Angénieux PARIS.” One was a 50 mm f/2.9 lens; the other a 50 mm f/1.8 for Alpa cameras.
1940
Pierre closed his Paris workshop and relocated all work to Saint-Héand. Although Saint-Héand was located in “unoccupied” France, his work was being carefully “watched.” Manufacturing became difficult. He spent much of this time studying new methods of optical calculation.

Media

https://www.youtube.com/@AngenieuxLenses

External Links

http://www.fdtimes.com/pdfs/articles/angenieux/FDTimes-Angenieux-History-A4.pdf

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Table of Contents

Company Summary

Angénieux

Lens Models

Cine Lenses

Optimo Primes

Optimo Ultra Zoom

Optimo Ultra Compact Zoom

Optimo Zoom

Optimo Style Zoom

Optimo Anamorphic Zoom

EZ Zoom

C Mount Lenses for H-16 Cameras