Ya got blood on the lens!

[Nailhead]

While shooting a feature last month, there was lots and lots of blood being slung around. Well, one day, an actor missed his mark and flung a bloody bone covered in karo syrup, chopped up pork, and bbq sauce straight at the camera.

I was the one who had to clean the lens. Keep in mind that this is a $10,000 lens. :umm:

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[Jeff Kilgroe]

MMMmmm... BBQ. You licked it off, didn't you?

[Jaime Vallés]

The bleeding edge of filmmaking! I'd love to see the footage of the blood hitting the lens...

[Nailhead]

Unfortunately I didn't get to see the footage, but I heard everyone in video village cheering.

[Jeremy Neish]

That looks an awful lot like a crack underneath that "blood". Hope I'm wrong.

[Fredrik Callinggard]

That looks an awful lot like a crack underneath that "blood". Hope I'm wrong.

I think you're wrong it looks like blood splatter only.

Maybe this is a lesson in learning the reason for having a clear glass filter in your mattebox :innocent:

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

It must've been a cool shot though.

[Wes Printz]

Maybe this is a lesson in learning the reason for having a clear glass filter in your mattebox :innocent:

Second that... optical flats come in very handy at times like this. Saves production time and money so the lens does not have to be cleaned.

[Nailhead]

They do look like cracks, but it cleaned up nicely, nothing broken. Although the mattebox smelled like BBQ for days. The DP asked me to clean it and to pass him a 28.

[Stephen Williams]

I was the one who had to clean the lens. Keep in mind that this is a $10,000 lens. :umm:



Hi,

Nearer a $30,000 lens.

Stephen

[Nailhead]

Nearer a $30,000 lens.

Yikes! really?

[Jim McKinney]

I've been guilty of this before, but I try to put an optical flat in front of the lens when I'm in these situations. I also love it when my AC can help me anticipate this as well.

[Harry Clark]

Yeah, optical flat.
I once did a job where we were shooting in a Ford assembly plant, doing time lapse. I did not have an optical flat, but did have an LLD correction filter. I opted to not put it on the lens, thinking of the color shift, and sure enough, sparks from the robot welder hit the front element of the Zeiss 11-110 and damaged it. Stupid me. And I had LOADS of experience by then. Just sometimes in the heat of it, bad choices are made.
Cheers,
Harry

[Ryan Sims]

Get some An-a-can-a-pan-i-stan to clean that lens boy.
Ryan