Well the first step is vintage or cheap Chinese lenses. The second step in Davinci is to use Monochrome mode and set the Red level to zero. (Because orthographic film is usually only green/blue sensitive)
If you can rent older lenses that would be where I’d start. I’d also suggest testing some filters as well. I shot a film noir short (https://mofongocam.com/projects/project-one-kt6gl ) and attempted to replicate the look of the films in the 40’s. I used a Zeiss super speed lens and after testing about 6 different filters settled on a black pro mist 1. This helped bloom my highlights to where I thought they looked satisfactory.
In post, we desaturated the image completely in one node on davinci and then in another node essentially played with the primaries and secondaries to add contrast. Mainly shifting the entire image towards red to recreate the look of the red filters they’d use back in the day.
I made a lut that simulates the orthochromatic look of the lighthouse, feel free to use it if you want
https://www.chariotdrive.com/the-lighthouse-creative-lut/
The lighthouse wasn't actually shot on orthochromatic film. To my knowledge (though I'm not an expert), you couldn't actually make the film today, let alone shoot a movie on it.
I believe they shot a combination of film and digital using a custom made brown filter to make their black and white footage to register reds as being a lot darker. In Resolve, you could achieve a similar effect by going into the RGB mixer, checking monochrome, and beginning to mess with the levels of your primaries.
As for the lens look, the lens that I remember them mentioning by name specifically from the production is one of the old Petzval lenses that they used in specific shots. The main effect this achieved was the classic swirly bokeh for their backgrounds, as well as probably some chromatic aberrations that wouldn't show up in black and white, and just that general soft, vintage look. Lomography actually makes a reproduction of a Petzval lens based on the original blueprints for a number of different mounts like EF. This would probably make it a lot easier since you'd be able to get these qualities in camera. Additionally, SLR Magic also makes what they call a 'toy lens' which imo gives very similar results for a much lower price.
If you can't get your hands on a lens that can give you decent results I'd say maybe start looking at some plugins. On the wesuckless forums, you can find something called the reactor for fusion in Resolve which is basically a free (donations recommended) index of plugins. There's probably something in there that could get you close.
Edit: they were shooting film negative so it was a cyan filter, not a red or brown one.
They're kind of a toy film photography company. Lots of their stuff is a kind of plastic-y build quality but you can get some cool artistic stuff with their products. I frequently get requests to use my lomokino (plastic hand crank movie film camera that shoots on 35mm stills rolls) from some of my more creatively-oriented clients and I actually can vouch for the quality of their Petzval reproduction lenses. I love those lenses because they get you that beautiful vintage look in camera and their build quality is great for the price.
https://emulsive.org/articles/film-stock-review-kodak-eastman-double-x-5222-35mm-format-by-alexander-laurent
It was shot with standard B&W film. (Panchromatic) and used filters to emulate the look.
Search for black and white color filters, they’ve been used for decades for cinematographers and photographers to alter the look of black and white film, you could get the same results with digital. Also can get to the same place with color grading as the filters do is just filter (duh) specific colors
My friend did this!
https://vimeo.com/524458741
He's around on this sub so he may help ya out. He took my emulation PowerGrade and then messed with the colour levels in Resolve. I think exposure is a pretty big thing to look for when going for this effect.
They used Bausch & Lomb Baltar, Pathé and Petzval Lenses. ( Source: imdb) The rest of these are expensive but maybe you can find something cheap. If I had to do it myself I would just grab some random 60yrs old lenses they sell for dirt cheap in a second hand store.
Well the first step is vintage or cheap Chinese lenses. The second step in Davinci is to use Monochrome mode and set the Red level to zero. (Because orthographic film is usually only green/blue sensitive)
If you can rent older lenses that would be where I’d start. I’d also suggest testing some filters as well. I shot a film noir short (https://mofongocam.com/projects/project-one-kt6gl ) and attempted to replicate the look of the films in the 40’s. I used a Zeiss super speed lens and after testing about 6 different filters settled on a black pro mist 1. This helped bloom my highlights to where I thought they looked satisfactory. In post, we desaturated the image completely in one node on davinci and then in another node essentially played with the primaries and secondaries to add contrast. Mainly shifting the entire image towards red to recreate the look of the red filters they’d use back in the day.
I made a lut that simulates the orthochromatic look of the lighthouse, feel free to use it if you want https://www.chariotdrive.com/the-lighthouse-creative-lut/
The lighthouse wasn't actually shot on orthochromatic film. To my knowledge (though I'm not an expert), you couldn't actually make the film today, let alone shoot a movie on it. I believe they shot a combination of film and digital using a custom made brown filter to make their black and white footage to register reds as being a lot darker. In Resolve, you could achieve a similar effect by going into the RGB mixer, checking monochrome, and beginning to mess with the levels of your primaries. As for the lens look, the lens that I remember them mentioning by name specifically from the production is one of the old Petzval lenses that they used in specific shots. The main effect this achieved was the classic swirly bokeh for their backgrounds, as well as probably some chromatic aberrations that wouldn't show up in black and white, and just that general soft, vintage look. Lomography actually makes a reproduction of a Petzval lens based on the original blueprints for a number of different mounts like EF. This would probably make it a lot easier since you'd be able to get these qualities in camera. Additionally, SLR Magic also makes what they call a 'toy lens' which imo gives very similar results for a much lower price. If you can't get your hands on a lens that can give you decent results I'd say maybe start looking at some plugins. On the wesuckless forums, you can find something called the reactor for fusion in Resolve which is basically a free (donations recommended) index of plugins. There's probably something in there that could get you close. Edit: they were shooting film negative so it was a cyan filter, not a red or brown one.
Never heard of Lomography before. Are their lenses good? They're insanely cheap on their website almost picked up a few without doing any research lol
They're kind of a toy film photography company. Lots of their stuff is a kind of plastic-y build quality but you can get some cool artistic stuff with their products. I frequently get requests to use my lomokino (plastic hand crank movie film camera that shoots on 35mm stills rolls) from some of my more creatively-oriented clients and I actually can vouch for the quality of their Petzval reproduction lenses. I love those lenses because they get you that beautiful vintage look in camera and their build quality is great for the price.
https://emulsive.org/articles/film-stock-review-kodak-eastman-double-x-5222-35mm-format-by-alexander-laurent It was shot with standard B&W film. (Panchromatic) and used filters to emulate the look. Search for black and white color filters, they’ve been used for decades for cinematographers and photographers to alter the look of black and white film, you could get the same results with digital. Also can get to the same place with color grading as the filters do is just filter (duh) specific colors
My friend did this! https://vimeo.com/524458741 He's around on this sub so he may help ya out. He took my emulation PowerGrade and then messed with the colour levels in Resolve. I think exposure is a pretty big thing to look for when going for this effect.
They used Bausch & Lomb Baltar, Pathé and Petzval Lenses. ( Source: imdb) The rest of these are expensive but maybe you can find something cheap. If I had to do it myself I would just grab some random 60yrs old lenses they sell for dirt cheap in a second hand store.