American Cinematographer - February 1990 - 11

Backlighting meant shooting into
sky, probably wide
open. The fading light meant not
many retakes. The plane would be
moving past and away at 150 mph.
No problem.
the sunset

"We disguised part of Mojave
Airport as a military base and we
set up as close to the runway as we
were allowed to get," says Bill
Bennett. "With the light going, we
knew we'd get only a few shots at

the takeoff. So I had two

cameras

rolling."
800mm as
second

on

backup
camera

"As a backup, I had my 800mm
Canon set up on the other side
the runway, shooting the same

of

(but opposite) angle. Threequarter rear view of the jet fighter
taking off against the blue hills
and banking steeply out of frame
against the orange sky."
"When the plane entered frame,
about 700 feet away, going

it

was

away from us. With the 1000mm,
the frame was a little under 15 feet
wide at 700 feet. The plane's wing¬
span was 22

feet. Just right."

Rotating filter stage at back of Clairmont lens

"To fill the frame with the 800mm,
would have had to pick the

we

plane up sooner and pan with it.
You try that-with an 800mm lens
wide open and an airplane going
by at 220 feet per second! "
Fast follow focus

"Kirk Bachman followed focus on
the Clairmont lens. The frontmounted distance pointer really
made his day. If he'd had to look
down at the scale on the lens bar¬

"The Clairmont
1000
as

sharp
my 5.6 Canon
was as

800. And somewhat
more

I

was

rel, by the time he looked up again
the plane would have been 200 feet
further away."

contrasty.
surprised."

Comparison with
the 800mm Canon

"So

now we

didn't have to

use

the

"We wanted the

plane to be a
strong black silhouette against the
sunset sky, with sun highlights
glinting off the aluminum wings. A

version," says Mr. Ben¬
nett. "But I did get to compare the
footage at the dailies. The Clair¬
mont 1000 was as sharp as my 5.6

lens with flare or low contrast
would have turned that to mush.
But the 1000mm gave us a superb
cookie-cutter image."

Canon 800. And somewhat more

800mm

contrasty-I was surprised. Any¬
we couldn't have got that shot

how,

without it."

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