Difference between DSLR & Cine Lenses?

[David Mullen ASC]

It's not unusual for a wide-angle handheld shot to let the operator pull his own focus. And for every shot where Kubrick shot handheld and pulled his own focus, there are probably a hundred shots in his movies where he had a focus puller on the camera. Exceptions don't prove the rule.

Kubrick was obsessed with focus-pulling issues -- Douglas Milsome was his focus puller for years and personally told me of the long hours of phone calls with Kubrick discussing focus-pulling issues, even after he stopped pulling focus for Kubrick. But then, Kubrick was obsessive about a lot of things... Kubrick would create all these focusing scenarios for Milsome and ask his opinion about where the focus should be, how it should be pulled, when it should be pulled, quizzing him about depth of field at different stops and focal lengths, etc.

All I am saying is that you have to take it seriously.

 

[Emanuel A.]

Kubrick was obsessed with focus-pulling issues -- Douglas Milsome was his focus puller for years and personally told me of the long hours of phone calls with Kubrick discussing focus-pulling issues, even after he stopped pulling focus for Kubrick. But then, Kubrick was obsessive about a lot of things...

Some call it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive–compulsive_disorder

A bunch of many others would rather see him as the genius he was. The story about his cat and the number of times Kubrick was used to call the veterinary (wondering him on the pet's routine) enlightens enough about 'that' nature.