Shawn Martin

Eterna 400 is discontinued in Japan only, as far as I can tell. It's absolutely still available in the US and UK, I know that.

They're calling them "Master Anamorphic" http://lenses.zeiss.com/camera-lenses/de_de/filmen/master_anamorphic_lenses/master_anamorphic_lenses.html 7 lenses (35, 40, 50, 60, 75, 100, 135), all T1.9. So Dom was essentially right name-wise. B) I would have actually preferred "Master Scope" as it's not such a mouthful. And, that page says they do flare.

He hit the water. There are rumors going around that he had terminal brain cancer. No way to know yet if that's true, though.

Horrible news. I can only imagine what his wife and two kids are going through. RIP

You're right. I noticed at least one shot (car interior) that was. It was cropped to 2.40 like the scope stuff. They also shot VistaVision for some of the opening scene with the planes. And I saw this in 15/70 and have to echo just how sharp the IMAX footage was.

Just watched the trailer, and it's actually anamorphic. I didn't think Snyder had it in him.

I believe Larry Fong had a prior commitment, which is why he couldn't do this. They shot Kodak, and given Snyder's other films, and all the effects work, they probably shot full-frame Super 35 with spherical Primos. I also remember hearing somewhere that this was originally going to be a sequel, not a reboot. It was also going to be digital 3D.

The only thing I ever liked about these movies was the hallway laser grid thing that cut people up into little cubes. The second one is a disaster, like a car wreck you just stare at openmouthed. I think it's the only movie ever with two different scenes of something blowing up and a piece of shrapnel hitting the heroine. The worst thing is, it was directed by Alexander Witt, one of the best second unit director/DPs working today (he also shot Body of Lies for Ridley Scott). It's funny how some DPs who direct end up showing an extreme case of tone-deafness. If I remember right, it had two DPs in the credits. Maybe it was because of some Jan De Bont-type problems, where the first guy quit? I never saw the fourth one because it looked low-rent, had all that Matrix crap that's so tired that people don't even make fun of it anymore, and didn't make any sense. Same deal with this one.

Thank you for writing that, David. And the June 2001 AC has a story about The Mummy Returns. One of the 1999 issues might have covered the first movie; I don't remember.

I distinctly remember reading somewhere, maybe a year and a half, two years ago, that this was Panavision anamorphic, with Canons used as crash cams sometimes. And Ben Seresin shot the second Transformers. Amundsen had nothing to do with it AFAIK (though who could tell, really?). I think he couldn't do it because he was shooting GI Joe at the same time.

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OK, in this photo you can see that the lens is a 35mm G-Series.

They used Panavision. No clue what specific lenses, but I would guess the G-Series primes and the front-element zooms (ATZ 70-200mm, AWZ2 40-80mm) at the very least.

I've always liked Peter Hyams' work, his anamorphic work in particular (which makes up most of his career). People say his movies are too dark, but I've never really thought that.

Just learned about these today. They were shown at NAB. From the Spanish company that makes the Scorpio heads, cranes, etc. A set of 13 anamorphic primes, from 24 to 300mm, 2x squeeze. http://www.fdtimes.com/2012/04/29/scorpiolens-anamorphic-prime-lenses/ http://www.servicevision.es/en/news/coming-soon-scorpiolens-anamorphic-2x

A few years late, but there's an article about this and Magnolia in the upcoming AC that says they shot this with the C-Series anamorphics. No mention of specific stocks, only that they were slow. They probably used 5245 or 5248.

His website is timmauricejones.com, and it has a number and email for his agent.

The flashback of the young Neeson's character and his dad looked like it was shot anamorphic, unlike the rest of the movie.

I know about Slumdog, but I thought he was talking about an entirely digital movie, which Avatar is. And apparently only two shots in Inception are HD, though Wally Pfister once said that out of the HD material that was shot, only one piece was usable and they ended up not using it.

Avatar was actually the first.

No, it's not supposed to be good. I just meant that maybe at the time they were using a "new" camera. I thought it looked terrible. Dull, purple and blurry.

Sony F35. This was shot almost 3 years ago, so it might have been one of the first movies to use it.

According to Film and Digital Times, page 17. A whole set of primes, with a 2x squeeze. I wonder 1.) how they flare and 2.) what they'll call them.

Jason Segel and Amy Adams. The trailer I saw makes it look like it's some romantic movie about them, before it shows the Muppets. They looked like they'd just dunked their heads in vegetable oil.