Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Barry Lyndon fast glass
From: "\(SonC\) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:01:45 -0500
References: <DLEKLNGGBBCIABLMALOHEECPCHAA.zeissler@directvinternet.com>

Thanks, Mitch for posting this article that gives us a glimpse of the drive
behind Ed DiGiulio.

In a past life, I worked in documentary television, and used Ed's excellent
CP reflex camera.  He was also the innovator of the Stedicam System that has
revolutionised Sports and feature film production, I think first seen  when
"Rocky" runs along the street, and up several dozen steps, turns and throws
up his hands, all one shot with no dolly, not tracks.

I had the great fortune to meet and chat with Ed DiGiulio a few years back,
and he's just the enthusiastic guy you see in this article.

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Zeissler" <zeissler@directvinternet.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 5:24 PM
Subject: [Leica] Barry Lyndon fast glass


> Pat...
>
> Read the article below for background on the Barry Lyndon fast glass:
> http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm
>
> Regards,
>
> /Mitch
> _________________________________________
> Mitch Zeissler
>   E-mail: zeissler@directvinternet.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Tamarkins & toilets
> >
> > Designed for a Hasselblad and used to film the candle
> > lit scene in Barry Lyndon?
> >
> > I thought that Kubrick used Arriflex cameras
> > exclusively? And I've never heard of a Hasselblad
> > motion picture camera (which certainly doesn't mean it
> > doesn't exist!) But if it were a repurposed MF camera
> > lens (and maybe it was the giant lens they made for
> > NASA), it seems unsuitable since 35mm motion picture
> > film is roughly 18x24mm and a fast lens designed for
> > 6x6 would have disadvantages in wide open performance
> > since it is covering so much unused image circle.
> >
> > I recall a hoax of a lens they showed at some camera
> > show probably in the 50s or 60s when superspeed lenses
> > were all the rage, image quality be damned. The front
> > element was something like 12 inches in diameter and
> > it was much faster than .95
> >
> > Pat
>
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Replies: Reply from "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> (Re: [Leica] Barry Lyndon fast glass)
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