uses a Sony digital camera, while her apprentice, played by Cailee Spaeny, shoots a Nikon and makes old-school film negatives of a fictional civil war. A real-life road trip to Washington ...

big clunky wooden cameras that used 5x7 glass negatives and might take half an hour to make a single exposure. The results are in a new book Battlefields of Honor: American Civil War Reenactors.

The camera – which only costs around £5000, and delivers imagery suitable for massive IMAX screens – proved an ideal fit for Civil War. “We knew we needed to shoot quickly, and move the ...