{"id":8549,"date":"2017-05-24T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=8549"},"modified":"2017-05-23T19:51:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T23:51:46","slug":"pierre-angenieux-paris-r11-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/pierre-angenieux-paris-r11-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Angenieux Paris R11 Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8550\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/R11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8550\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8550\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/R11-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angenieux 28mm Retrofocus R11 on an Exakta Varex VX camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I extended my Exakta Varex IIa camera with a 135m and a 28mm lens. I chose an <a href=\"http:\/\/captjack.exaktaphile.com\/Angenieux%20page.htm\">Angenieux pre-set<\/a>\u00a0Retrofocus R11 lens for the 28mm as it focussed under 2 feet and was f\/3.5 wide open. Unfortunately it used\u00a0a retrofocus design. Unless you were perfectly level, the images it took had massive barrel distortion and vertical and horizontal lines went wildly off at odd angles.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea that a retrofocus design had such obvious geometric distortion before I owned such a design. To accommodate the Exakta mirror, even a normal lens had to be slightly retrofocus. It wasn&#8217;t until I owned a few Leica screw and bayonet mount 28mm lenses that I realized the short focal length lens could create a distortion free image after all IF the design could be made non-retrofocus&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Ang\u00e9nieux\">Pierre Angenieux<\/a> company is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angenieux.com\">still in business today<\/a> making lenses for TV cameras and movie cameras. A clean R11 design still commands a decent value as a collectible lens. In an Exakta mount, not so much.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8553\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8553\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8553\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/R11-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/R11-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/R11-600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angenieux Retrofocus R11 28mm pre-set lens mounted on an Exakta Varex VX<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I extended my Exakta Varex IIa camera with a 135m and a 28mm lens. I chose an Angenieux pre-set\u00a0Retrofocus R11 lens for the 28mm as it focussed under 2 feet and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/pierre-angenieux-paris-r11-lens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1159,61,1160,210,1158],"class_list":["post-8549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lens","tag-angenieux-r11","tag-leica","tag-p-angenieux","tag-paris","tag-retrofocus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8556,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549\/revisions\/8556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}