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, [email protected] 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 <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> 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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