The whole “shot on an iPhone” movement has become sort of gimmicky lately. You’ve probably seen the memes about ’28 Years Later’ being shot on an iPhone, yet using more massive rigs and lenses than many other films. The advantages of shooting a film on an iPhone become minimal when your budget is in the millions. However, the team at Beastgrip, known for outfitting phones for filmmaking, recently released a new short film shot on an iPhone. They’ve used a new Beastgrip DOF Adapter called the Фoton (foh-ton). Let’s check out the short and how they made it! O₂ – a short film shot on iPhone with Anamorphic Cinema Lenses The short film O₂, written and directed by Stanislav Kapralov, with cinematography by Eugene Usanov, can be viewed below. The short utilizes Atlas Mercury series anamorphic cinema lenses in conjunction with an iPhone 15 Pro Max and a Beastgrip Фoton adapter to attach the lenses to the iPhone. What would have been difficult to do without can now be done very easily using Beastgrip’s Фoton adapter. DP Eugene Usanov says: “The Beastgrip DOF Adapter let us use Atlas Anamorphic lenses, and I was blown away by the results. Despite concerns about the iPhone’s dynamic range and low-light performance, Apple ProRes Log exceeded expectations. Combined with the Atlas lenses, the footage looks like it was captured on a cinema camera. It felt like we defied physics.” So, the short film production used the body of an iPhone 15 Pro Max, anamorphic...
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