American Cinematographer - January 2000 - 63

Kees Van Oostrum ASC has shot

mostly
with Primos, but also with all the Zeiss lenses and
now

with the Cookes. Here's what he thinks:

'^TTJThen I began working as

"Bleach-pulling the final print

V ¥ a DF; it was in Hollywood.

desaturates the color and intensi¬

I started out with Panaflexes

fies the

blacks, but it also adds
previous bleach-pull
jobs, I sometimes had to put a low-

and used

contrast. On

nothing else for twelve
years," says Kees Van Oostrum.

contrast filter on the

"Then I was

camera.

But

hired, in 1996, to shoot
a Profiler pilot that called for sev¬
eral mid-shot speed changes. I
decided to go with the Arriflex 535,

lenses were the Variable Primes.

because it would be able to hold

But

exposure when we varied

times had to

"When

not with the Cookes."

"The least

shooting began, I saw that
a big improve¬

Kees Van Oostrum ASC NSC

ment. And with the Moviecam

SL for hand-held and
I found the whole

fortable

-

a

Steadicam,
system com¬

winner. But the lenses

weren't what I was used to."

"Right after that pilot, which we
shot with Zeiss Superspeeds, I
worked on The Old Man, a feature
based

on

the Faulkner novel. I

"As we were

finishing that series,
primes ar¬
rived in Hollywood. I was able to
borrow them for a day and use them
on a couple of Profiler scenes.
They were superb - all I had been
hoping for. And the 50mm, for
example, weighed only 3.3 pounds not front-heavy on a Moviecam
the first set of Cooke

stayed with the 535 system; and we

SL. So we could

used selected Zeiss Standards."

lenses for hand-held."

"I was then hired to shoot the rest

"Since

of the year's

Profiler. The new
Zeiss Variable Primes had just be¬
come available, so we tried a set of
those on our first episode. They
were

excellent. For the rest of the

series, that's what we shot with."

even

use

"In

fact, these Cookes may even be
sharper than the Primos," says
Mr Van Oostrum. "On screen, the
Cookes

are

somewhat less

con¬

trasty in my A/B tests, yet both sets
look comparably sharp. That sug¬
gests higher resolution in the
Cookes. Certainly, their detail and
subtlety are extraordinary. They
are my first choice."

use our A camera

then, I've used the Cookes

to shoot

a

Fox feature Next to

You and

a

Turner film You Know

My Name, which we decided to
bleach-pull. It's about an oil town
in the Thirties, so we wanted a per¬
iod look but with strong blacks."

14mm, 18mm, 25mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm
Cooke

with

those, we some¬
Promist, which
compromised their sharpness."

speed."

the 535's finder was

contrasty of the Zeiss

Mr Van Oostrum has

won

three

Emmy

nominations and four ASC Award nomi¬
nations. His Return To Lonesome Dove
won a

1993 ASC Award.

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