Snow White uses RED Epic + Panavision Glass?

[Will Keir]

According to IMDB "Snow White and the Huntsmen" shot Red Epic, Panavision E- and G-Series Lenses (some shots: Ireland surf unit)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735898/technical

Can you rent/buy Panavision glass for use on the Epic?

 

[David Mullen ASC]

You can rent Epics that have had PV mounts installed along with their PV-mount lenses.

 

[Will Keir]

David,

You are too good.

 

[Andy White]

Just in case you missed it...

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?81432-Snow-White-and-the-Huntsman

Epic was primarily for VFX.

 

[Tom.Wong]

was just on a set with a panavised epic with primos a week ago. it's an amazing combination. love those primos.

 

[Nick Morrison]

Just in case you missed it...

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?81432-Snow-White-and-the-Huntsman

Epic was primarily for VFX.

Yeah, from what I remember in the American Cinematographer article on the movie, they shot most of the movie on film, but the VFX plates of the mirror were done with Epics. If my memory serves...

 

[Dave Blackham]

What glass do Panavision use for these lenses ? I had always thought hey used Leica and Nikon for many of their lenses ?

 

[David Mullen ASC]

They started using Leitz glass elements for their lenses in the 1980's but their older lenses were a real mix, maybe Nikon, Canon, etc. -- plus they had their conversions of Zeiss lenses (Z-series).

 

[john jeffreys]

You can rent Epics that have had PV mounts installed along with their PV-mount lenses.

*drool*

 

[Will Keir]

Here I was thinking Panavision was making their own glass. They are not glass makers themselves but more opticians who rehouse others glass?

 

[David Mullen ASC]

They do more than rehouse glass, they are probably doing some of the grinding and polishing, but either way, ever since the Primo line in the 1980's, they have designed their optics from the ground up rather than adapt other elements of other lenses to their own elements. Even with their older anamorphic lenses, they probably made the anamorphic elements in-house. I don't know their deal with Leitz in terms of whether Leitz is making elements to their specifications, etc.