1 The Director of Photography – an overview

204 Index
Lenses (contd)
Panavision Primo, 57
Zeiss, 57–8
perceived sharpness, 50–3
perspective, 167–71
telephoto lenses, 54–5
testing of, 150–3
focus tests at various distances,
152–3
infinity test, 151
resolution test, 151
wide-angle lenses, 55
zoom lenses, 55–6
See also Focal length
Light meters, See Exposure meters
Lighting equipment list, 11–12
Lighting ratios, 107–9
controlling the whole scene, 110
definition, 107
for both cinema and television,
108–9
for cinema, 107–8
for television, 107–8
use of on the set, 110
visualization of, 107
Lightworks process, 75
Linear sampling, 94–6
Lines of sixths, 162–3
Logarithmic sampling, 94–6
Long handled negative cut, 88–9
Long pitch, 73
Long-focus lenses, 54–5
Loop, 42–3
Low contrast filters, 130
Maddox, Richard L., 63
Magnus, Albertus, 62
Maltese cross mechanism, 73–4
Maximum aperture, 53–4
Minolta colour temperature
meter, 124
Mired shift values, 121–3
Modular Transfer Function
(MTF), 151
Moonlight, 127
Negative cutting, 86–7
A and B roll, 87, 88
long handled negative cut, 88–9
Nets, 131–2
Neutral density filters, 130
Nitrocellulose, 63
Objective shots, 172–5
Operator, 31
Optical printers, 84–6
Palmtop computers, 144–5
Pan and scan telecine transfer, 183
Pan glass, 133
Panavision camera mechanism,
41–2
Panavision Primo lenses, 57
Panchromatic viewing filter (pan
glass), 133–4
Paperwork, 27
Parallax focusing, 30
Pentax Digital Spotmeter, 104–5,
113
Perforations, 72–4
three-perforation pull-down,
178–9
two-perforation pull-down,
179–80
Perspective, 167–71
Photographic process, 63–8
history of, 62–3
Pincushion distortion, 59
Pixels, 93
resolution and, 96–7
Polar screens, 132–3
Premier copy, 88
Preparation for shoot, 7–23
camera equipment list, 10–11
DP’s preparation, 9–10
film stock breakdown, 17–23
lighting equipment list, 11–17
recces/scouting, 8–9
technical schedule, 23
Print density control, 116–17
Printer lights, 83–4
Printers, optical, 84–6
Printing:
contact printing, 84
controlling print density, 116–17
optical printers, 84–6
Prints:
cinema release prints, 87–8
festival prints, 197
Pro-mist filters, 131
Recces/scouting, 8–9
Reflectance values, 102
Reflected light meters, 103
Reflex viewfinder, 43–4
Report sheets, 27, 28
Research, 7–8
Resolution:
digital intermediates, 96–7
lens resolution test, 151
Rotary calculators, 142–3
Rule of thirds, 159–62
Rushes, 62, 84
Samuelson calculators, 144
Scanning, 92, 94, 96–7
See also Digital intermediates
(DI)