Now that explains much of his eye for composition.<p>Mr Kubrick's obsession with light motivated him to shoot all the candle lit scenes of 'Barry Lyndon' without supplemental lighting, using three Zeiss f/0.7 lenses. He wanted audiences to see what the characters saw.<p>Only ten such lenses were ever made and are still the fastest apertures ever used in filmmaking<p><a href="https://m.dpreview.com/articles/9811242514/kubrick-s-f-0-7-lenses-now-available-for-rent-but-start-saving-up" rel="nofollow">https://m.dpreview.com/articles/9811242514/kubrick-s-f-0-7-l...</a><p>And very difficult to use, too; depth of field of a 50mm f/0.7 lens is about 20cm at 5 metres! So to keep his subjects in focus he had the actors move only sidewards in those scenes!