Sven Nykvist: On operating the camera and using zoom lenses
When you are operating the camera, you forget all about the other people around you. You just see this little scene and you live in that and you feel it. For me, operating the camera is a sport and it helps me do better lighting sometimes.
When we started Cries and Whispers, Ingmar and I promised each other never to use the zoom lens. I suggested we bring one just to help us find out which fixed-focal-length lens we should have in each situation, but, of course, I found this was a wonderful toy. My left hand would come up and I would start to change the focal length on the zoom, and after a while I found I was neglecting to tell Ingmar I was using the zoom lens. I found that if I zoomed during camera movements and in the same rhythm as the camera movements, then it really didn’t show up very obviously.
And then Ingmar said, “It’s strange--I can’t remember that we were tracking at all.”
I didn’t tell him about using the zoom, but it started to work so well that he finally noticed my hands constantly working the lens, and he said, “Now I know how it comes. You are using a zoom that we have not discussed.”
I said, “It seems to work because you are always asking if we were tracking or not.”
"Sometimes you have to use the tricks you can."
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