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"1917" Director Sam Mendes & Cinematographer Roger Deakins

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The Importance of a 40 Mil Lens in the First World War

All but a couple of shots is on a 40 mil lens. You get what I think is the best reflection of the photographs I've seen from the First World War. This is slightly kind of, I say, shallower depth of field. And it's not the 18 mil wide angle that you see everything. It's slightly claustrophobic. and it's more personal. But we're going to use probably longer lenses on the following sequences. We never really did because it was working exactly as we wanted it to. Yeah. Well, I mean, partly it's like slightly higher resolution. But I mean, for me, it was the size of the sensor leads to a certain

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