Barry Lyndon film?

[Athiril]

by the look of the scenes shot, they are 35mm, not 70mm, 50mm lens would be much wider angle on 70mm.

depth of field can be seen through the view finder, and everything is worked out and rehearsed before hand, they always have a dedicated focus puller and put markings on the lenses, everyone needs to hit their marks at the right time.

 

[accozzaglia]

The film (my favorite movie, BTW) was shot with only period-correct lighting; no electric lights.

Admittedly, I'd never heard of it until this conversation. Which stuns me somewhat, but another time.

Stupid question: if this was entirely shot with period-correct illumination, would this indicate that the scene just after the candles came from bona fide moonlight, such as a full moon?

 

[alan doyle]

this was not a normal reflex camera. because of the special nasa lens,they had to use a very old rack over 35mm mitchell bnc.
you viewed the scene through a seperate viewfinder system through the lens.
set up the shot,worked out focus etc.
when you were happy you racked the whole thing across so the lens was in front of the film plane. a nightmare.
a focus puller would set his focus marks, for the first time a crude video assist was set up at right angles to the scene the focus puller worked from site and off a tv screen reacting to the action...he would of been playing with the most tiny depth of field.
no one could look through the viewfinder..the operator would have had a paralax viewfinder system for camera moves.

 

[BetterSense]

Stupid question: if this was entirely shot with period-correct illumination, would this indicate that the scene just after the candles came from bona fide moonlight, such as a full moon?

I doubt it. But it would be cool if it was.

 

[alan doyle]

light just from moonlight would of been been impossible even with those nasa lens.
the film was 100asa push 1 stop and shutter speed would be 48th sec at 24fps