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Macro Heroics

Top: Pym
discusses his
miniaturization
and insect-control
technology with
Lang. Bottom:
Lang inspects his
new wardrobe.

through December 2014. Core
members of Carpenter's crew included
1st AC Jeffrey Civa, B-camera 1st AC
Sean Moe, digital-imaging technician
Rafel Montoya, DIT/data-management
supervisor Kyle Spicer and chief lighting
technician Len Levine. Carpenter shot
Ant-Man using Arri Alexa XT cameras
supplemented with an Alexa M
compact body for tight quarters. He
captured Open Gate ArriRaw to Codex
digital recorders for an eventual 2K,
1.85:1 release. Panavision Woodland
Hills and Panavision Atlanta supplied
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the Alexa bodies.
ASC associate Dan Sasaki,
Panavision's VP of optical engineering,
helped Moe handpick the production's
set of Panavision Primo V prime lenses.
The lens package also included
Panavision Primo 15-40mm T2.6, 1990mm T2.8 and 24-275mm T2.8
zooms, as well as an Angenieux Optimo
28-76mm T2.6 zoom - and, as Moe
notes, "a beautiful 12mm Panavision lens
modified to work with the Open Gate
cameras. Sasaki also modified a P+S
Technik Skater Scope with a PV mount
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and supplied some lightweight Panavision
Super Speeds - 14mm to 50mm. The
Skater Scope was instrumental in providing many of the hard-to-reach Ant-Man
angles."
A-camera operator Peter Rosenfeld
made frequent use of a Talon repeatable
remote head from Pacific Motion
Control, and a special four-camera Alexa
circular array captured certain shots that
required an expanded field of view from
Ant-Man's perspective as well as exterior
San Francisco background plates.
To help define Ant-Man's overall
look, Carpenter first reviewed the previous films in the Marvel canon. "I was
looking at pretty much everything starting
with the Iron Man movies," he recalls. "I
really liked the look of Captain America:
The Winter Soldier [shot by Trent
Opaloch], so we got the LUT used on
that production and tested it with the
Alexa. I fell in love with the way it took
the bite out of more strident colors like
red, compared to how they looked in real
life - in particular, I knew it would help
with the rendering of the Ant-Man
costume. I made a few minor modifications to how the blacks and shadow details
were represented, and we had our LUT."
To provide consistency for the



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