Want to see how it works? The video below is of Mythbuster’s Adam Savage visiting film-maker Peter Jackson in New Zealand in 2016. Then they simply shone a light through it. But how did they add the glow? Simple – they used the camera’s very own red filter (R60) which screws on to the back of the lens. The on-screen HAL 900 – the single “eye” in blazing red – was played by one of Nikon’s most extreme lenses, its 8mm f/8 fisheye. The HAL 9000 lens in Peter Jackson’s prop store (Pic: Adam Savage’s Tested/YouTube) HAL 9000 needed to be all-seeing – the film’s plot hinges on his ability to detect a conversation between two of the crew. He had to find a visual presence for him aswell.Īs the recent exhibition at London’s Design Museum showed, Kubrick was a gifted stills photographer aswell as a film director. Kubrick cast actor Douglas Rain as the voice of HAL, but the voice was only part of the persona. While in charge of a spacecraft whose secret mission – hidden from its unfortunate crew – is to make contact with a possible alien entity, he starts to malfunction. Soligor Mc Wide-Auto 28mm 1: 2,5 Wide Angle Lens for Canon Fd By Dealer. HAL 9000, the eerily calm computer in Stanley Kubrick’s epic science fiction film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, was voted the 13th greatest villain in the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Heroes & Villains. Would that be any better than my Nikon kit TWO PIECES of Camera Objective Lens. If you want to know more about different lens categories and technologies, please visit our School section.
The first two are DX lenses designed for cropped-sensor DSLRs the third is designed for full-frame cameras, but also works on bodies with APS-C sensors, though with different characteristics.
The fixed focus 8mm f/8.0 was followed by another similar lens, which has a full f-stop faster lens speed in Fisheye Nikkor 7.5mm f/5.6 in 1965 where the lens has almost similar design (similarly the year where Nikkormat SLR cameras was marketed officially) and followed by an even. Three popular fisheye lenses for Nikon users are the Tokina 1017mm, the Nikkor 10.5mm, and the Nikkor 815mm.
It is, without doubt, one of the most quietly chilling villains in movie history. Below you will find all Fisheye Lenses registered on Lensora that are compatible with Nikon Z6.You see the focal length that you will experience with Nikon Z6 and if you click on 'Info' you can read more about Nikon Z6 and the actual lens, as a combination. Fisheye-Nikkor 8mm f/2.8s The first Fisheye-Nikkor was a fixed focus Non-Ai Fisheye-Nikkor 8mm f/8.0 lens in 1962. Nikon AF DX NIKKOR 10.5mm f/2.
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