Jon O'Brien Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 I've been watching 'Exodus' (1960). It's been really interesting for me to study the cinematography and lighting on this. For a 65mm production the depth of field is very deep. So many shots where there are close ups and the horizon is in focus. Anyone know anything about the lenses used on this production? Just curious, as ever. https://www.alamy.com/prod-db-carlyle-productions-dr-exodus-de-otto-preminger-1960-usa-gregory-ratoff-historique-historical-histoire-disrael-history-of-israel-194-image221261475.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=886C3935-1BC2-445E-A793-32E1366FA19A&p=728508&n=0&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3dexodus%25201960%26qt_raw%3dexodus%25201960%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26ot%3d0%26creative%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26pc%3d%26blackwhite%3d%26cutout%3d%26tbar%3d1%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26groupid%3d%26pseudoid%3d%26a%3d%26cdid%3d%26cdsrt%3d%26name%3d%26qn%3d%26apalib%3d%26apalic%3d%26lightbox%3d%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26xstx%3d0%26simid%3d%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d1%26nu%3d%26t%3d%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d%26cap%3d1%26cbstore%3d1%26vd%3d0%26lb%3d%26fi%3d2%26edrf%3d%26ispremium%3d1%26flip%3d0%26pl%3d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Drysdale Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 I gather these were the lenses used: https://uk.panavision.com/products/uk/super-panavision-70-lenses They may have been rehoused, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon O'Brien Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 For that sort of ext. shot, with close ups of faces in bright sunlight, in that era what sort of lighting was used? Just one big light, or two for extra fill? Or a light and a reflector board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted March 5, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted March 5, 2019 Any of the above. Best scenario was when they could use a carbon arc lamp but sometimes they went with reflector boards. In a lower-light overcast day, they might just gel a tungsten lamp blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted March 5, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted March 5, 2019 I dont why that Panavision page shows an example of an anamorphic lens (maybe its a 1.25X Ultra Panavision lens image or their new 1.6X lens for the DXL). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon O'Brien Posted March 9, 2019 Author Share Posted March 9, 2019 Interestingly there's a few occasions where the camera tracks in close, with impeccable focus pulling that was obviously well-rehearsed, but with the camera's shadow looming into frame. It actually occurs at the 'climactic' scene where Newman and Eva Marie Saint kiss. They're meant to be alone on a hill but it looks like someone has walked right up to them and the director is showing us this by the shadow. But no, it's just the camera. Happens a few times in the movie. I'm not being critical - it's a brilliantly made film. Just worthy of comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dunn Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Interestingly there's a few occasions where the camera tracks in close, with impeccable focus pulling that was obviously well-rehearsed, but with the camera's shadow looming into frame. It actually occurs at the 'climactic' scene where Newman and Eva Marie Saint kiss. They're meant to be alone on a hill but it looks like someone has walked right up to them and the director is showing us this by the shadow. But no, it's just the camera. Happens a few times in the movie. I'm not being critical - it's a brilliantly made film. Just worthy of comment. It happens more often than you'd think or like. Presumably non- reflex finders and it just wasn't spotted. I have a pet theory that audiences were more accepting of artifice such as this, or fringey travelling mattes that we point at now and say "how did they ever buy that?". They just did. My theory doesn't account for Hitchcock's apparently deliberate use of jarring opticals as an abstraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon O'Brien Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 Could be, too, that while rehearsing the scene including framing the shot and getting the focus perfect, speaking with the actors, the sun had moved just enough. And as you say, just wasn't spotted. On a difficult and hot shoot no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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