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Originally Posted by neverending
Seeing 2001 on a 180 degree cinerama screen on its initial release was a mind blowing experience.
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I got to see a clean 70mm print of this at a theatre here in Chicago last year. It was nuuuuuts. Unreal.
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Originally Posted by neverending
The magnificent scenery of Barry Lyndon, the way Kubrick had it shot with special comeras... the panoramas were breathtaking.
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Actually the cameras were normal; it was the lens set that he used that allowed him to photograph scenes with only candlelight. They were super-fast lenses (f/0.7) developed for NASA for space photography and the Apollo missions, and were adapted to fit the cameras.