RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
September 11, 2023 at 11:43 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2023 at 11:45 am by Anomalocaris.)
Stanley Kubrick destroyed 3 of the 10 rarest and most valuable photographic lenses ever made up to that point because he thought a candle lit scene in Barry Lyndon should only be lit by candles. Furthermore he felt the scene should convey the feeling of being seen though period appropriate optics without refinement of modern optics technology. They two demands are obviously mutually contradictory since only thr most cutting edge optics at the time could capture candle lit scene on motion picture film.
Nonetheless he procured 3 sample of a special ultra-large aperture lens the famed German Optics firm Carl Zeiss made on special order from NASA for the Apollo Program for use in still cameras to film the unlit side of the moon, scrubbed the lens coating from them so the image will flare when looking at a light source as 18th century optics would do but considered a highly undesirable in modern photographic optics, and machined away parts of the lens so it will fit his motion picture camera.
Nonetheless he procured 3 sample of a special ultra-large aperture lens the famed German Optics firm Carl Zeiss made on special order from NASA for the Apollo Program for use in still cameras to film the unlit side of the moon, scrubbed the lens coating from them so the image will flare when looking at a light source as 18th century optics would do but considered a highly undesirable in modern photographic optics, and machined away parts of the lens so it will fit his motion picture camera.
