Making Human Footprint: Sumire Lenses

Human Footprint is unlike any other science, natural history, or travel series out there, because it’s all of those things, and then some. If host Shane Campbell-Staton sets the tone for the show, and hip-hop legend Adrian Younge sets the tempo, then it's the use of Canon’s Sumire prime lenses that sets the style. Sumire means “to bloom” and the footage we captured with the Sumire lenses does just that. Gorgeous flaring and an almost dreamlike quality gives the show, and particularly the character portraits, a cinematic, vintage Hollywood feel that’s reminiscent of footage coming out of the 60s and 70s, and sets Human Footprint apart from other science and natural history series.