Seth Rogen is Actually into His Panoramic Movie Pictures

You may know humorous man Seth Rogen from his hit comedy motion pictures from the 2000s or from Apple TV’s new collection The Studio. But the Canadian actor just lately revealed that he’s additionally an enthusiastic photographer — particularly panoramic movie pictures.

Appearing on GQ’s 10 Essentials collection on YouTube final week, Rogen explains that he “got really into panoramic cameras” and he owns a Widelux and a Hasselblad XPan. The Widelux is “purely mechanical,” and it subsequently requires a separate mild meter for the right publicity settings.

“It’s hard to load the film,” says Rogen as he provides an illustration of the Widelux’s distinctive design that scans the movie utilizing a swing-lens mechanism. “There’s a little tiny slit that lets the light in.”

Rogen says he’s taken some “really cool pictures” backstage at SNL. He’s additionally taken different behind-the-scenes photographs o his Widelux, equivalent to him and Snoop Dogg within the studio recording ‘Take Yo Panties Off’ for the This is the End soundtrack.

His second panoramic movie digital camera is a Hasselblad XPan, which he precisely factors out is “much harder to find” than the Widelux. “Fuji manufactured the camera, and then some of them were rebranded as Hasselblads.” The unit Rogen has is a Fujifilm TX-2.

“There’s probably no greater cliche in all of the world than an actor thinking they’re a photographer,” jokes Rogen. “You’re around good lighting, you’re around cinematic things all day, you work with cameras, you get it in your head to get some cameras and to try to learn about cameras, as you should!”

Rogen notes that fellow Hollywood star Jeff Bridges is related to the Widelux digital camera. As PetaPixel has reported, Bridges isn’t just well-known for utilizing the Widelux however is actively reviving it within the type of his new WideluxX. Bridges and his spouse, Susan Geston, have joined forces with Silvergrain Classics to reverse engineer a Panon Widelux F8, making some notable enhancements whereas preserving the unique digital camera’s DNA.

Bridges describes the Widelux’s distinct look and character because the “sort of missing link between still photography and motion picture photography because of that lens that actually moves.” Perhaps that’s why film stars are interested in the weird wide-angle digital camera.