chrisgaffey: Kubrick was able to shoot Barry Lyndon in candlelight and natural light by adapting old
chrisgaffey: Kubrick was able to shoot Barry Lyndon in candlelight and natural light by adapting old Mitchell BNC rear projection cameras to take big Zeiss f/0.7 lenses, originally manufactured for NASA for purpose of satellite photography. He shot wide open which gave him virtually no depth of field. -- source link