Bill Bennett, ASC

Cinematographer - Director of Photography

Bill shooting his new Arri Alexa digital cinema camera, with a Zeiss VP-2 29-60mm T2.2 lens. The latitude and colorimetry you can achieve this this camera, even recording to the internal SxS cards using ProRes 4444 and Loc-C is quite remarkable.

Photo: Abby Sunderland

Here's Bill shooting the Sony F-35 digital camera which has a PL mount and a single super-35mm size sensor chip.

That's a 12:1 24-290mm T2.8 Angenieux Optimo lens mounted on the the camera.

Photo: Pat Paolo

Bill Bennett and crew shoot on the ground as Thom Cox shoots from the air. Dodge, Idaho, Summer 2001.

Photo: Brad English

Shooting BMW in Mammoth, CA, from back of snowmobile. Jan 2002

Photo: Brad English

Bill and precision motorcycle driver, Rick Miller with Sparrow Head mounted on bike.

Prepared for the blast of the sunset's light and the helicopter's dust,

DoP Bill Bennett and 1st Assistant Craig Devereux line up a shot with the Canon 150-600mm lens.

Photo : Brad English

Bill Bennett with an Arri 435, shoots from a camera car, Mojave Airport, CA, Spring, 2000

Photo: Michael Helms

Bill talks with Doner Producer, George Keri about an upcoming shot with the Auto-robot Arm and Flight Head,

(also known as the "Russian Arm" even though it was invented in the Ukraine),

in Arizona while working on a Mazda job. September 2002

Photo: Ambar Capoor

Here I am sitting in a "buck" of an interior for a new Mazda 6 automobile. A "buck" is a automobile with the roof cut off, to enable us to light the interior and easily move the camera around inside without banging into things. The lens in use is a "Revolution" lens system, mounted on an Arri 435, that is in turn mounted on a Weaver Steadman carbon-fiber arm. The objective lens of the system is in front of my right elbow. The "high class" lens hood is simply black paper tape. Note that crews on automobile shoots dress in black clothing, so as not to reflect in the surfaces of the car.

Photo: Joey Julius

Here is a "blast from the past." This is me and my good friend Janice Kirk working on my first student film project, back in 1971 while I was attending Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. I am holding a Nikon Ftn. We shot both stills and 16mm film for a "multi-media" project where the images were projected on the 5 exterior sides of a rear projection screen covered 8-foot cube, with the audience of 4 or so people seated on the interior carpeted floor. The soundtrack was a medley of popular songs from the day. It was really a music video, many years before MTV was conceived.

Photo: either Steve Triechler, or Gene Hausman, or Steve Smith, all friends who helped me create the project.

Link to Pages showing lighting cars on a 360 turntable

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