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Ava — First Reveal - Ex Machina | CineCanon

Ex Machina/Ava — First Reveal

Scene dossier / 2015

Ava — First Reveal

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Technical

Scene Equipment

lens setA-CamCarl Zeiss Zeiss Ultra Prime/Zeiss Ultra Prime 40mm T1.9a_cam_lens

camera bodyA-CamARRI ARRI ALEXA family/ARRI ALEXA Minia_cam

The ALEXA's clean sensor was critical for the VFX compositing work on Ava — her visible internal mechanisms required pristine background plates with no film grain to composite accurately.