Camera Setup:
🔎 CANON Rangefinder TLS Rehoused / PETZVALUX Ancient Optics Rehoused
📹 ARRI Alexa Mini LF
• Recording format: ARRIRAW 4.5K
• Filters: None
• Grip: We used a dolly for the scenes featuring the protagonist, Henry Roberts. For the exterior scenes, we went handheld with an Easyrig.
• Lighting setup: For interiors, I combined different sources: hard lights outside the windows (Nanlux 2400B + Vortex 8 bounced on white fabrics), while inside I enhanced the practical candlelight with LiteMat 4 Plus Spectrum and LiteMat 2L Spectrum
for one key interior scene, I had a custom-built parabolic reflector with a handle, which I could use handheld as a kind of “candle torch” to illuminate the protagonist’s eyes.
For daylight exteriors, we used two ArriMax 18K units on cranes and additional fill with an ArriMax 9K from the ground.
• Shooting days: Two
Why did you decide to use the Canon Rangefinder lenses and the Petzvalux, and how did you find them?
The choice of lenses came from a desire to create painterly atmospheres with dreamlike qualities, splitting the project into two distinct worlds: the nocturnal world of Henry Roberts and his laboratory, and the daytime exteriors where the girls appear.
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For Henry’s world, I chose the TLS Canon Rangefinder lenses. Their soft rendering and pronounced fall-off at the edges enriched the atmosphere of the...
