The english verb is "to film". But for me lense conjures up ...
Edmund
And here, I suspect, is the source of the verb "to lens." When people started making movies without film being involved, the verb "to film," structly speaking, no longer described what was happening. You can still say "shoot," but that has other issues, and "to photograph" has never been used very much for motion picture work, even though the phrase "principal photography" or even just "photography" as a noun has been a regular part of the lexicon. Take film out of the process, and it becomes a linguistic muddle. "Sensoring" just doesn't have the right ring. "Rolling" is archaic. "Turning over" is even more archaic. "Filming" -- well, we've talked about that. "Recording" only really works for videotape, and that is scarcer than film these days. The only thing all the photographing devices have in common are lenses. So it turns out "lensing" has some appeal.
Pedantry has its price.