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Watch: A Guide to Stanley Kubrick’s Lenses

April 3: 2015: EDITOR’S NOTE. We apologize, but this video is no longer viewable on YouTube.

In this 12-minute video, legendary British camera innovator Joe Dunton (you can read up on him here) identifies every lens used by Stanley Kubrick and how they work. Learn about the Angénieux zoom lens that was the most popular in the world from 1966 to the early ’70s, more about the difficulties of shooting natural light on Barry Lyndon and many other aspects of the director’s technically meticulous productions.

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