Stanley Kubrick shot Barry Lyndon using f/0.7 Zeiss lenses originally made for NASA. Fascinating and insanely beautiful results!

 

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Interviewees reminisce on how Stanley Kubrick acquired the Mitchell BNC cameras and used them, in conjunction with NASA Zeiss lenses, to film "Barry Lyndon" using natural light.

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