Top Gun Maverick: How Fujinon Lenses Helped to Film it without “Green Screen Nonsense”
We know that Hollywood loves Fujifilm.
- No Joke: Official JOKER Movie Images taken With Fujifilm X Series Gear ;)
- Avatar 2 First Official Photos Taken with Fujifilm X Series Gear
- Mission Impossible: Official “Fallout” Photos Taken with Fujifilm X and GFX Gear
- Hollywoods’ Dunkirk Movie Official Photos Taken with Fujifilm X-Pro2 and XF 18-135!
Today we have a new entry on the list.
The latest Top Gun movie used a range of Fujinon cine lenses to capture acrobatic as well as low flying jets.
Claudio Miranda, ASC, the award-winning cinematographer behind “Top Gun: Maverick“, shares behind the scenes footage, stories from the set, and all the ins and outs of selecting and working with the gear used to create this history-making film.
GEAR LIST:
Camera
FUJINON Lenses:
- Premista 28-100mm T2.9
- Premier 14.5-45mm T2.0
- Premier 18-85mm T2..0
- Premier 24-180mm T2.6
- Premier 75-400mm T2.8-3.8
- Cabrio 19-90mm T2.9
- Cabrio 20-120mm T3.5
- Cabrio 85-300mm T2.9-4.0
- Cabrio 25-300mm T3.5-3.85
Among the others, Claudio says.
This is not green screen nonsense. The whole point of the movie was “how much can we capture?” Top Gun is a movie about getting it in-camera. […] Some of the cameras were rigged in really impossible places. And all these things needed different kind of lens qualities.
I made a list of what can fit and have great range and still be IMAX-worthy.
Top Gun was more about long lenses, so we used the Premier 75-400mm T2.8-3.8 all over the place. […]
During the middle of the movie we actually had a chance to get a hold of the Premista 28-100mm T2.9. It was amazing. I wish we could have kept it but unfortunately it was only one in the world at the time. We loved the full frame aspect of it, it was sharp, it was straight, it was like you went to the wide end of the lens and there was no bowing, there was no barreling. One of the only full frame zooms I know that’s acutally decent enough to shoot with.
[…]What I do love about the Fuji zooms, all of them, from the Premista to the Premiers, there is no oddball barrel distortion when you’re zooming, or there is no vignetting, there is no softening towards the edges, it’s all straight. .We just like how the Fujinon lens maintains its field of view througout the zoom range. If you get a flare in the zoom, it does not fog the lens. It’s a beautiful zoom, the coatings are great.