"Passing" technique

[robert_bowring]

I saw the movie "Passing". It is in black and white and am curious as to how it was done. Was it film or was it digital or some kind of combination? To my eyes it looks very much like Tri-X film. What kind of lenses were used?

[Dustin McAmera]

IMDB has something:

Passing (2021) - Technical Specifications - IMDb

 

If I understand that, it was digital, and they used Lomo cine lenses.

[robert_bowring]

Thanks for the information. If I understand it correctly it was shot in digital. There must be some kind of process to make it look like film. It also appears to be shot with the lens wide open to give a shallow depth of field and a very selective focus.

[Dustin McAmera]

Looking at Lomo's range of lenses, it seems likely that they used one (or both) of the Petzval lenses, which do have wide aperture.

https://shop.lomography.com/en/lenses

[rodeo_joe1]

Digital images can easily be manipulated and made to look grainy like fast film. In fact simply underlighting the scene and pushing the camera ISO up will automatically produce visible noise that's very similar to film grain when converted to monochrome.

 

Here's a grayscale shot at a silly-high ISO with a digital camera.

Edited December 11, 2021 by rodeo_joe|1