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This is now a measurable, scaleable and repeatable exercise, so a DOP can recreate a look from a couple of years ago
They are nine lenses including a 21mm, 25mm, 29mm, 35mm, 50mm, 75mm, 85mm, 100mm and 135mm,” he says. But the new DNA LF line has the ability to be highly tuned and it is this service that Arri Rental is offering globally. But the really interesting news is that it has invented a way of recording that tuning, so a DOP can recreate this secret sauce in any Arri Rental office in the world; those catalogued details will be under lock and key obviously. “This is now a measurable, scaleable and repeatable exercise. There is a system within the lens that allows this de-tuning, such as effecting focus fall-off, chromatic aberration, field curvature and so on,” explains Prior. “Imagine if a DOP wanted to recreate a look he or she had designed a couple of years ago, now he or she can do it
with these lenses. No one else has done this before.” Arri Rental is also extending its experimentation with some uncoated, extreme contrast new glass that it’s calling DNA X; this is beyond, for instance, what the Canon K35s could offer, but there is a demand for this type of look. “We’re going to be experimenting with this X series, which we’ll release later in the year. In the simplest terms, these are uncoated and heavily de-tuned variants of the DNA LF lens itself,” says Prior. “They’ll be pretty extreme and not for everyone, but for those who want to push the boat out and don’t necessarily have time to spend with us tuning something custom for a look. It might even be just for a few shots in a movie that need to be ‘different’.
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