Daily Archives: February 11, 2013
“2001”-HAL 9000 was Built Using a Nikkor 8mm f/8 Lens
This made me kind of happy in a geeky way this morning. The full scale mockup of HAL 9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey” was built using a Nikon Nikkor 8mm f/8 fisheye lens as it’s glowing red “eye”. The article from petapixel.com goes on to say that interestingly enough, The 8mm lens wasn’t used to shoot HAL’s POV shots. […]