Kate Winslet on taking Rolleiflex photos for "Lee"

[@theraven6836]

I’ve been photographing for over 24 years and can usually tell when actors are faking it. I never got that impression in Lee. It always seemed genuine. Now I know it was.

[@markgarcia8253]

I’m a simple man, I saw a Rolleiflex in the thumbnail and I clicked on this.

[@davidgifford8112]

There is something special about using a twinflex camera, the large bright viewfinder image cannot be matched by other systems.

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

Winslet, ultimate professional and a true gentlewoman 💕💜

[@steveconn]

Lee really deepened when she visited the death camps towards the end. Powerful movie.

[@adelaferreira4575]

Kate just gets better and better as time passes !

[@tgchism]

A genuine talent for acting but I would love to see more of what she could do with that camera!

[@laurajazzpiano401]

I have that exact brown case and she's bang on in terms of breathing when taking the picture.

[@PittheadX]

Kate is the best actress on Earth today incase of skills. She's transformed and transcended to the Danny Day Lewis level since the Mare Of Easttown series.

[@steveconn]

I don't know, I think Jessica Chastain in Miss Julie in 2014 is probably the greatest female performance ever filmed.

[@PittheadX]

@steveconn I was a fan of Chastain but she will never touch the current verison of Kate, bar none.

[@carlosmcse]

It wasn’t a replica. It was a Rolleiflex.

[@Alexius1Komnenos]

Taking an actual camera and modifying it to emulate the character’s real life camera makes it a replica

[@carlosmcse]

@ it’s the same camera. It’s a Rolleiflex. They’re all the same. A replica camera is a non-functional camera. The host knows nothing about cameras and neither do you. If they bought a Rolleiflex and painted it or distressed it to make it look like the camera the photographer owned then that doesn’t make it a “replica”. It would be a “tribute camera”.

[@VezVezar]

I think the breathing thing is less about the focus, more about the steadiness when the shutter fires. Films at the time would have been pretty slow i presume, which required a slower shutter speed, which means been able to hold it as steady as possible is vital to a clear image…

[@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle]

The Ilford HP emulsions were available before the war, I have no idea what Lee Miller was using, or if HP was available in roll film at that time though but it could well be she was able to use 400ASA film at that time.

[@matthijstermeer611]

Yeah, we're talking about motion blur here. But it does affect focus.

[@wolf17238]

Her performance in The Reader is my favorite. To me, it's going to be hard to top.

[@r2d2rxr]

Kate shoots HP5!!! 😮❤

[@kimberlyenglehardt5770]

I’m so deeply grateful you didn’t put any energy into another string for your bow. We’d be the lesser for it. Your work is splendid!!

[@alkadypod]

Kate portrayed "Lee" perfectly the film was oscar worthy & esp Kates performance

[@imagenatura]

The focus is not the issue with breathing- it's camera shake and blur. The focus is not nearly as finicky as the shake. The rule is to shoot at 1/125s and use good technique like holding your breath and you'll get a sharp shot.

[@sprucemoose3000]

I can’t wait to see it. Love Lees work.

[@StephenBarnett]

Having seen the film just days ago, Kate was so good in this role..

[@nica900]

My first camera was my mother's vintage box Brownie and I know that feeling - you had to hold your breath because you hold the camera steady against your body and have to hold your breath to stop the camera shake. Took some great pics with it.

[@RollaArtis]

These 6x6 cameras are good but one has to make allowances for the slower film speed. Years ago I always used a Rolleiflex and am glad I did, because with modern digital manipulation my pictures stand up really well compared to digital cameras of the present. But not those from a 35mm camera.

[@davidgreenwood5442]

Brilliant actress

[@mrb.5610]

I'm showingmy age but I've used them - or rather the Maniya C330 'equivalent' - and her use of the camera didn't jar - it looked real enough ! (Except maybe for the low light shots - we don't know how spoiled we are with the 'light grabbing' ability of modern digital cameras and smartphones !!)

[@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle]

Remember though that the leaf shutter in the Rollei and your Mamiya (which I also have) meant much less vibration than an SLR or DSLR would produce in the same circumstances. She would have been able to use relatively long shutter speeds.

[@mrb.5610]

@@Tom_KZbin_stole_my_handle True ! A friend had the 645 and that would damn near jump out of your hand in comparison. And also quick - no waiting for the mirror to bounce out of the way ! Great for portrait work. It's all coming back to me now - they were bloody good even though other 'photographers' would take the pee because they looked 'old fashioned' !! Add - writing this has even brought back the smell of them - always slightly musty from the case !! And opening the foil on a roll of FP4 would have a slight chemical odour too . . . . Modern digital stuff just doesn't have that !!

[@stevenmccaughan2752]

I own a Rolleiflex it’s a single lens reflex which means that the image inside the view find gives you a image opposite of subject it’s a studio camera very slow to work with. Take the photos of Robert Capa of the D-Day landings where he used a Leica Camera which gave you 36 frames instead of 12

[@stevenmccaughan2752]

Her son finds the photograph’s after she dies so her son is talking to her ghost she. Suffered from Post traumatic syndrome

[@VezVezar]

Rolleiflex are tlrs, not slr. Also capa used rolleiflex in the field as well, vivian myer as well. Slow yes, but doable in the field.

[@DessieTots]

Capa used a Contax rangefinder, not a Leica. The Rolleiflex is a TLR Twin Lens Reflex, not an SLR, Single Lens Reflex and is certainly not a studio only camera or slow to work with. The image on the focusing screen is laterally reversed, not “image opposite of subject”.

[@Look_What_You_Did]

2:58 Kate: When you dawn gloves you are not permitted to touch your body with them. You may as well leave them off or smash your face on the objects directly.

[@fredcraven1699]

Lee is usually spelled l e i g h girls

[@naga2015kk]

ever since Titanic her career submarined while Leonardo soared sky high.

[@jlsmith7588]

Why did Kate shoot with a “replica” Rolleiflex? I have an original Rolleiflex which I bought a few years ago and it takes wonderful pictures. You can buy used Rolleiflexs now and I imagine they are less expensive than replicas.

[@markgarcia8253]

Look that the video, it’s clearly not a replica

[@Robert_Gonzales]

replica as in a replica of the orinial rolleiflex used by the photographer

[@buning_sensations5437]

A used real one runs 400-700 euro.

[@earvinquero2037]

Viviane Mier the movie next.

[@Phoyographer]

Enter Ialam and success

[@ramprasadbaghel198]

जय भीम जय भीम जय भीम जय भीम

[@nicksavage4763]

DID SHE LEARN? Moving camera DOES NOT CHANGE FOCUS, IT CAN ADD BLUR ON SLOWER SHUTTER SPEEDS. BASIC CAMERA FUNCTION AND RESULTS

[@OneEyedDronie]

Ermm moving a camera towards or away from a subject on a low apature CAN AND WILL change focus... . maybe stick to what you know before commenting ???

[@fustigate314159]

LOUD NOISES

[@Robert_Gonzales]

actually yes it does. when you breathe youre moving the camera with your stomach and that 1 inch change can casuse you to lose focus and in some situations can cause blurry photos due to slow shutter speed. learn the basics yourself before you comment. Ive shot thousands of photos with medium format cameeras

[@matthijstermeer611]

@@OneEyedDronie ... low shutter speed...

[@Infamous_313]

How did she put herself through such training!? It must have been torture to take a picture without moving. Oscar 🧹 😂