American Cinematographer - March 1995 - 10

Theo Vein de Sande ASC
shot A/B comparison test

footage with six types
of anamorphic lens. Here
is what he found:

f the

thirty-six features
on as DFJ
three have been anamorphic,"
says Theo Van de Sande. "The
latest is Tenderfoots, to be
released by Fox."

tremely bright lights, much hot¬
ter than the ambient daylight. The
refinery was too big to balance,
but streaks from all those point

I've worked

Lens

sources

and there

shortage

"For about five years, there has
been a shortage of anamorphic
lenses. And new ones have been

coming out-Arriscopes and
Clairmonts, the Angenieux and
Cooke zooms anamorphed by
Clairmont. So I decided to shoot
some tests. It's useful to know
what the various alternatives
are,

"I

how they perform."

Headlights
remember a night exterior in

which

series of

approaching
headlights on high beam shone
directly into the anamorphic
lens. It was a wrong-way chase
scene,

a

the

camera car

would have looked very

strange. In fact, I used Arriscopes

weaving

A/B Test
"Stopping down

Star Test
"For that

shot, streaks had
worked. For most, they probably
wouldn't. To compare the six
available types of anamorphic
lens, I set up a point-source star
test. Projecting the test footage,
it was clear that the Arriscopes
produced no streaking at any stop.
Wide open, the Cooke 40-400mm
showed

small amount. So did

cures streaking
but not distortion or breathing,
of course. To test for those, I

shot A/B footage, again with the
five types of anamorphic fixed
lens and with the Cooke 5 to 1

anamorphed by Clairmont. I
also projection-tested five of the
six and put them on the bench
at two rental houses."

Zoom
"One

edge

surprise for me

the Cooke showed

I had shot the

drew

own

high-beam head¬

a

the flare created linear
streaks right across the frame.

lenses, but not

in

Arriscope 40mm."

aggressive effect than the
concentric flare

with

sphericals."

rings you'd get

streaking among any of them."
Hot streaks?

"Soon after that test, I

made some
long shots at dusk of a huge oil
refinery, lit by hundreds of ex¬

no

straight line better than

lights with. Two stops down,
there was virtually no difference

more

that

anamorphic
lenses, but less than the lens types

Clairmont's

oncoming traffic. As
each set of headlights came at
The Director loved it-a

was

edge distor¬
tion at its wide end, despite be¬
ing a zoom. At 40mm, the Cooke

a

between
us,

streaks."

were no

several of the 40mm fixed
as

good

as

the

Circles/Ovals
"The other surprise was that
the Cooke didn't distort the cen¬
ter of the image when I racked



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