[Frameworks] Zoom lens and camera used for "Wavelength"

[Jared Ashburn]

Thank you Scott and Nicky. This is very helpful. A BL with a French zoom-classic!

Best,
Jared

> On Oct 12, 2014, at 3:46 AM, nicky.hamlyn at talktalk.net wrote:
> 
> Probably combined with an Arri BL, which was the ubiquitous camera that went with the lens, as used by TV news crews all over the place, and certainly by the BBC, before they switched to the Arri SR with Zeiss Distagon lenses in the mid 1980s,
> 
> Nicky.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com>
> To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
> Sent: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 5:50
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Zoom lens and camera used for "Wavelength"
> 
> In the early seventies, the 12-120 was the lens to have, and all of the
> TV guys were desperate for the things because they had such a huge range
> of focal lengths.  They were ubiquitous for a good while, but they really
> weren't very sharp.
> 
> Angenieux made hundreds of different lenses back then... and some of them
> were better than others but if someone said "french zoom" your first
> thought was probably that 12-120.
> --scott
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