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4. IT’S A SMALLWORLD Technical lenses, such as specialist tilt-shift, are most often used to correct converging verticals and extend depth-of-field. But if you tilt the lens and use very wide apertures, it gives the ‘miniature world’ look, where a wide-angle scene can look like a scale model. Using a tilt lens allows you to choose a plane of focus that’s not parallel to the camera, but at an angle. By selecting a wide aperture, you can make everything away from that plane very soft. It’s a creative tool for tech-savvy filmmakers. German lens maker Schneider- Kreuznach has a whole family of full-frame Xenon primes that allow you tomanually tilt the focus plane. Turning a dial angles the lens to the camera body by up to 4° either way from the standard zero setting, which allows the plane of focus itself to be altered by up to 80°. It takes planning and practice to perfect it, but when you do, you are rewarded with a super high- quality image that can add a new and highly stylised dimension to your filmmaking. The Schneider Xenon FF-Prime Cine-Tilt 50mmT2.1 lens costs £5000/$5598. schneiderkreuznach.com/en
“You are rewardedwith a super high-quality image that adds a newdimension to your filmmaking”
ANAMORPHIC FOR THE PEOPLE Sirui’s range of lenses finally brings the Cinemascope style within the reach of most filmmakers
XENON PHOBIA Using the Cine-Tilt lens takes practice, but can give a unique, ‘small world’ effect to your footage (top)
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