Barry Lyndon: Use of the Mitchell BNC Camera and Zeiss Lenses

[MrKyleBlackmor]

So happy this video exists on here.

[pH4nTomPL4n3T]

If the current crop of 21st century filmmakers are any signpost of what's to come, we'll not see anything approaching the likes of Kubrick's genius again.

[malows1234]

@pH4nTomPL4n3T ya dude, kubrick is a once in a lifetime genius. kubrick is someone who knew how to build mind blowing visual compositions that make the world's greatest photographers jealous. at least no filmmaker will ever exist that knows as much about the visual stly eof a film better than kubrick.

[soulmman]

Why doesn't zeiss construct a f0.1 lens? I don't care if it'd take an hour to set perfect focus, I just want it.

[WolvesOfEurope]

@soulmman lol. The focus would be 0.5mm. Everything else extremely blurry.

[Diamonddavej]

The original WWII lens was in direct contact or was very close to a IR phosphor screen. Glatzel modified this lens, giving it just enough room to use film. That's why they had to modify the BNC camera's mount, bringing the rearmost lens close enough to the film plane.

[Diamonddavej]

The Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lens is a modified version of the Zeiss UR-Opjective 70mm f/1.0 lens, from a 1941 German night-sight, most likely the ZG1221k used on Panzer tanks.

This WWII era lens was perfected by Erhard Glatzel using an IBM 7090 "supercomputer" in the mid-60s. Glatzel also designed the 60mm f/5.6 Biogon lens, used on Apollo missions.

[mswickel]

this is so interesting!

[onesegundo]

Joe Rogan!