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Some critics have complained that the camera has crippled this ballet with its frequent close-ups. For years, however, the best-equipped balletomanes have been training their opera-glasses on ballet stars to gain precisely the close-up effect. So what harm to let the camera lens do the work...
...LENSES. Improved optical glass and computer calculations have led to new lenses that were impossible to make before. Zeiss has an f0.70 lens, 100 times faster than the human eye in daylight, for general photography, and a 110° wide-angle lens free of distortions. Schneider has a movie-projection lens that without alterations can handle nor mal and widescreen, Cinemascope and Todd-AO film...
There was a scene where Joan Fontaine was supposed to faint at a coroner's inquest, and I wanted to get the effect, but nobody could lick it. From 1939, I tried again several times. And it wasn't until Vertigo, when we had to have it that it was...
HITCHCOCK: First of all, we have to explain the perspective of various lenses. In other words, when you look through the finder of a 50mm lens --a two-inch lens -- you see the perspective as roughly normal, as the eye sees it. Now the moment you go to a 35mm lens, the perspective begins to change, to elongate. Then you go to a 28mm. In other words, the wider the angle of lens, the more forced the perspective becomes...
You've probably seen still photographs of interiors of rooms where the ceiling seemed to go up, especially if you're familiar with the room. It was on this basis that I'd gotten them to devise this movement. It's a changing of perspective from the normal to the...