This is my real-life review of the DZOFILM Catta Zooms – my experience using this pair of affordable cinema zooms on an entire documentary production, from start to finish. The DZOFILM Catta Zooms have been on the market for a couple of months, and instead of doing a quick, rather superficial first-look review, I decided to use them on a full documentary production. Because of the look of the images the Catta zooms produce – more on that later – they became the perfect match for this film. The documentary itself is about a very difficult historical subject – the Nazi’s Euthanasia program during World War II. And because much of the film consists of “talking head interviews” with historians and contemporary witnesses, I was going for a warm, cinematic, yet slightly vintage look. The DZOFILM Catta Zooms in the CineD studio. Image credit: CineD A big “Thank You” goes out to the DZOFILM team for loaning us these lenses for many months as shooting days kept being pushed and rescheduled due to Covid restrictions. And the second big thank you goes out to the producer and director of the documentary, Alex Millecker and his production company Ostfilm, who made sure we are able and allowed to use images of this unfinished documentary for this review. Working with the DZOFILM Catta Zooms Now the shoot is over, and I have used them in a variety of shooting scenarios. First off, before going into detail, if you are just after my...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 20 April, 2022