akin to nothing Ive ever shot with. Theyre very, very difficult to wrangle into contemporary modes with electronic focus pullers. All that had to be done by Dan Sasaki at Panavision, who did an amazing job. Some of these lenses, I mean they hadnt seen the light of day, as you know. They had not ha
Its actually a very flat-looking lens, in terms of the way you get distortion on the edges, because the elements are bigger. When it was put up on a screen for me to look at, I was with Gregor Tavenner, the assistant, and Dan Sasaki. And the minute it hit the small projection screen, which was jus
here is somebody that renowned at Panavision which I dont recall his name. And he is known as, like, the mastermind. That would be a question you could ask Dan Sasaki. Hes extremely knowledgeable and absolutely in love with optics and the physics of optics. He is also a magician and he took over f
