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Top: Pinochet
assembles his
family and valet
to make an
announcement to
the group. Bottom:
Lachman replaced
the bulbs in the
room's chandelier
with 40-watt
versions and
supplemented the
room's illumination
with overhead units.
images with more subtlety, detail and nuances in the shades of contrast.
For some years, Arri Rental had offered an exclusive black-and-white
version of the Alexa XT, stripped of its Bayer mask and infrared filter,
which enabled the system to capture monochrome images with greater
resolution, contrast and sensitivity than the standard Alexa. More recently,
the company had also developed an Alexa 65 variant which, unlike
the XT, met the native-4K mandate required on Netflix productions.
Lachman says he liked this latter camera option but knew that it would
be too large and heavy, since most of El Conde would be shot with a 15'
Technocrane, both to provide the kind of camera movement the filmmakers
had in mind and to facilitate the setups.
Lachman reached out to his friend Marko Massinger, an ASC associate,
film producer and imaging scientist from Germany, to ask if he
thought Arri Rental could possibly install a monochromatic chip in the
lighter, smaller Alexa Mini LF. " I had my doubts that they could pull it
off, because Arri was coming out with their new Alexa 35 4K camera, so I
figured all their effort would be going into that model, " Lachman recalls.
" But Marko spoke with Manfred Jahn, the head of Arri Rental in Munich,
and he was into the idea. "
The cinematographer also reached out to ASC associate Stephan
Schenk, general manager of global sales and solutions at Arri, to see if
the notion was possible. Jahn and Schenk both believed in the concept
but weren't sure if it could happen in the production's timeframe. At that
point, Lachman had already started prep, with two months to go before
shooting commenced, and he didn't think timely delivery would be feasible.
To his amazement, 10 days before principal photography began,
Arri informed him that they had a prototype camera ready, but that he
would have to do the field tests himself to determine the sensor's dynamic
range.
Lachman was thrilled by the news, which meant he could use his old
Harrison & Harrison black-and-white filters. " I also gained 3/4 of a stop, "
he says. " ISO 800 was actually 1,280, and 1,280 became 2,000. "
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