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For those of you budding Kubricks, you may even be able to recreate his amazing candlelight scenes (yes, no other artificial lighting was used) using Kubrick's

by gjkood 11y ago

For those of you budding Kubricks, you may even be able to recreate his amazing candlelight scenes (yes, no other artificial lighting was used) using Kubrick's specially made lenses. The f/0.7 prime lenses were originally made for NASA for the Apollo space program. They are now available for rent. http://www.dpreview.com/articles/9811242514/kubrick-s-f-0-7-lenses-now-available-for-rent-but-start-saving-up http://www.dpreview.com/articles/9811242514/kubrick-s-f-0-7-...

thenomad 11y ago
Or you could use a Sony a7S, which is perfectly capable of shooting films on normal lenses with no other lighting but candle light. A significant portion of my short film "HOWTO: Demon Summoning" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZoiva3DfI8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZoiva3DfI8) was shot with nothing but candle light last year. Four tealights, to be exact. We just used a regular f/1.4 50mm Contax/Yashica lens on the a7s body, running at 40,000 ISO or therabouts. The footage was a bit noisy as it came out of the camera, not aided by my shooting in LOG format without exposing as high as I should have done, but once we ran it through the Neat Video noise filter plugin it looks great. I wrote a bit about the process over here: http://www.strangecompany.org/lessons-i-learned-from-my-first-live-action-short-after-nearly-20-years-of-animation/ http://www.strangecompany.org/lessons-i-learned-from-my-firs...