If there's something unusually chaste and delicate in his camera's gaze at her, it's not for the movie's own lack of eroticism: the film is centered, as Hitchcock says, on a woman who "degraded herself for the sake of her love"; the tenderness with which he films her is tinged not with pity but with admiration, envy, and understanding.
A delicate dance between camera and choreography, "Saint Claude" was shot in one day.
The delicate new digital cameras struggled to keep up with him.
At the other end of the spectrum he has used extremely long exposures with an analog camera to produce delicate, melancholic landscapes that almost dissolve under the gaze.
During the first encounter of Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama), an earnest, brooding Japanese college student, and Naoko (Rinko Kikuchi), the onetime sweetheart of his best friend, Kizuki, who committed suicide, the camera studies the delicate curves of their lips merging in a near-sacred rite of communion.
With plastic bodies and plenty of delicate, moving parts, most digital cameras are accidents waiting to happen.
To make a documentary, "Fragile Legacy," we are on a quest to lure these elusive and delicate invertebrates in front of the camera lens.
When I saw her work for the first time, I became obsessed with how she built beautifully delicate and detailed constructions for the camera.
In the past, with film SLRs it was perfectly acceptable to use the compressed air as the internal nature of the camera was not as delicate.
The cameras show that the delicate bird shakes its head with such acceleration that it can reach a g-force of 34 (Formula 1 racing cars typically reach less than 6 g).
