Attenborough in those days was working directly with Jim Frazier, before Panavision became involved. When "Life On Earth" was being made Frazier personally did the cinematography for the close-up stuff.
An interesting side story is that Panavision's deal with Jim Frazier permitted him to not divulge the optical principles of his invention to them. So radical are these principles that a study of the schematics of a lens won't reveal them. While he was still developing the concept I was privileged to meet Jim from time to time, In conversation I gained the impression that somehow all the planes of focus were being concurrently resolved by the lens in parallel. regards, Anthony Farr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Digital Image Studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:07 AM Subject: Re: Extreme depth of field technique > On 27/01/07, Barry Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm fairly confident that this is not a bit of greenscreen magic. But I'm >> trying to figure out the method. It probably would cost gadzillions, but >> wow....if I could achieve that kind of perspective...... > > AFAIK they use a Panavision/Frazier Lens System: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_lens > > -- > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
