Lights… Camera… Lenses…
Professional directors of photography Anka Malatynska and Liz Hinlein explain how lenses are the alphabet of film.
Choosing equipment when beginning to shoot a film can be a daunting task. Arguably the most difficult is which lenses to use with your camera; not only what kind of lenses but how many as well. That’s what the cinematographer is there for.
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Like the writer has his pen and the production designer has his sketches, the cinematographer is the person who essentially “writes” the film with a camera. He/she is an expert in all things cameras and lenses. The lenses they use are like the alphabet and grammar style for shooting a film.
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