85mm ƒ1.4 G and 100mm ƒ2. He
has a 24-85mm zoom for general
purpose use and had recently
added the new digitally optimised
18-70mm – the same budget lens
supplied with the 5D – which he
finds surprisingly good. He says his
only problem with fast lenses and the
digital SLR is the minimal depth of
field, apparently less than with full
frame film and made more critical
by the nature of the digital sensor.
We left him to another long dark
night in Lithuania, probably not
so bad with the growing reputa-
tion for friendly taverns and good
food which this emerging Eastern Rowan Atkinson as the cuckolded vicar, top: and shooting in progress, film crew in the foreground.
renaissance capital has gained.
oblivious to the infidelities of his working at ISO100 or 200. It enabled the director wants of actors that are
Keeping Mum
wife with her sleazy American golf me to shoot at 1/30th of a second, used within the film as set dressing.”
instructor. It is the first production knowing full well that I would be And as for the technique of spot
Richard Blanshard has worked Richard has shot wholly digitally. able to hand-hold the Dynax 7D metering mentioned earlier – well,
on The Empire Strikes Back, “I was very, very impressed by the and keep it sharp. I was able to get he now ‘chimps’ with great regularity.
Braveheart, Mission Impossible, latitude the Dynax 7D gave me”, he shots I probably wouldn’t have been That’s a press-pack term for looking
Little Buddha, Judge Dredd and said. “It performed very well in all able to get without Anti-Shake.” at your camera’s rear LCD screen
has just completed principal cast conditions – from day shoots through Not only could production staff after every shot to check it! “The spot-
photography on Keeping Mum, for night shoots, and under mixed light- and distributors use Richard’s images meter has been as essential tool in the
release in the UK on December ing. A lot of digital cameras I”d tried to track the progress of the picture, world of filmset stills, but now I find
2nd 2005 via Entertainment Film before got confused by the mixture of but he also did shots on the Dynax I can use my eye, and the histogram,
Distributors. The pictures shown daylight and tungsten that’s common 7D that made it into the movie. “If and meter using my own judgment”.
here are from that project and on movie sets. I found the 7D very there was a scene that needed a Konica Minolta look set
you will have to wait to see some “natural” – what you see is what you photograph as a prop we’d shoot it to sell Richard a few more
Highlander shots in a later issue. get and it can handle all the extreme in the morning, load it straight in to digital SLRs in future… but
Keeping Mum’s plot involves lighting conditions thrown at it. the art department’s computer, and not many more spotmeters!
a village vicar so obsessed with “The Anti-Shake feature allowed it would be on set in the afternoon. – DK
writing the perfect sermon that he’s me to use the longer lenses and stay There are often family or kid shots null
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