2 perf 16 mm

[Thomas Bek Thomsen]

Hello

 

Is this a dum qt. :unsure:

 

Is it possible to get a 2 perf 16 mm camera or just 3 perf?

 

 

Thanks

Thomas Bek

[Mark Dunn]

Pardon?

16mm. is one perf per frame.

35mm. Techniscope was 2-perf, but that hasn't been used for a long time.

[Thomas Bek Thomsen]

sorry i did not know, just saw a danish film shot i 1:2.40 in 2 perf and wondret is it was possible in 16 mm...

[John Brawley]

Techniscope was 2-perf, but that hasn't been used for a long time.

 

 

Ive worked on a two films that were 2 perf in the last few years.....

 

Arri now have a 2 perf factory movement for their arricams.

 

But there's no such thing as 16mm 2 perf. Unless there's some kind of vistavision 16mm ? Horizontal Superdooper 16 anyone ?

 

jb

[klas persson]

35mm. Techniscope was 2-perf, but that hasn't been used for a long time.

2perf film from 2006

[Kristian Schumacher]

3-perf or 4-perf 16mm

 

I think you may have been a little confused about the formats. But it sparked some imagination, and that's what matters :-) Here's what it got me thinking of: Convert a 16mm camera to 3- or even 4-perf, turn it on its side, use 35mm optics and you will have this:

 

16mm 3-perf: 22,6mm x 12,35mm 1,83:1

 

16mm 4-perf: 30,2mm x 12,35mm 2,45:1

 

Both are significantly larger than Techniscope, and imagine shooting this resolution with a tiny, cheap (hmmm.. ) camera. Aaahh, to dream........

[David Mullen ASC]

You pay for real estate more or less when buying film -- for example, 2-perf 35mm is half the size and cost of 4-perf 35mm, and 16mm is one-quarter the cost of 4-perf 35mm.

 

So a double-frame 16mm format would cost you about the same as 2-perf 35mm in terms of raw stock, and there's no infrastructure for it, etc.

[Will Montgomery]

Would it be possible to create at half size vertical 16mm film transport camera?

 

As to create a wide format like Techniscope in 16mm? Or would the perf arrangement in 16mm not allow that?

 

It could crop down to 16:9 in transfers giving twice as much running time on a 100' roll... like it was super 8 but you'd get a much better picture and only slightly worse than croping standard 16mm to 16:9. Of course it would have to be a transfer only format and there's probably no transfer solution for it.

[Tim Carroll]

Would it be possible to create at half size vertical 16mm film transport camera?

 

As to create a wide format like Techniscope in 16mm? Or would the perf arrangement in 16mm not allow that?

 

It could crop down to 16:9 in transfers giving twice as much running time on a 100' roll... like it was super 8 but you'd get a much better picture and only slightly worse than croping standard 16mm to 16:9. Of course it would have to be a transfer only format and there's probably no transfer solution for it.

 

You would have to build a special movement to only pull down half as far as standard 16. And you would need a special gate. Both of those things are doable, but expensive. And then the bigger issue I would think would be film availability. It could only use film like the old Kodak double 8, which is getting harder and harder to come by. The double 8 film has twice the perfs per side as regular 16mm film(in other words, two perfs per 16mm frame, which would work out to one perf for your 1/2 frames), so if you built a special movement, the pulldown claw would have one perf per frame.

 

And even if you could accomplish the above, where would you get it transferred? I don't know of any house set up to do something like that.

 

And while I agree with you that it would be more image area than 8mm, I think it would be a definite step down from 16mm.

 

-Tim

[Leo Anthony Vale]

16mm 3-perf: 22,6mm x 12,35mm 1,83:1

 

16mm 4-perf: 30,2mm x 12,35mm 2,45:1

 

Both are significantly larger than Techniscope, and imagine shooting this resolution with a tiny, cheap (hmmm.. ) camera. Aaahh, to dream........

 

The three frame version is part of the original technicolor rome patent.

 

http://www.google.com/patents?id=LaVTAAAAE...oni+technicolor

 

That would require the design and manufacture of a camera from scratch.

Thus it won't be cheap & would be tiny in comparison to a BNC.

 

Now a bit of pedantary:

2 perf 16mm would be regular 16mm, double perf

& 1-perf would be single perf, Super 16.

[Will Montgomery]

It could only use film like the old Kodak double 8, which is getting harder and harder to come by. The double 8 film has twice the perfs per side as regular 16mm film(in other words, two perfs per 16mm frame, which would work out to one perf for your 1/2 frames), so if you built a special movement, the pulldown claw would have one perf per frame.

 

Does that double super 8 stock have some sort of perf in the center to split it or is just cut with a knife in processing?

 

Hmmmm... so maybe starting from a Double 8 Scoopic might make more sense... just need to widen the gate and recenter the lens so it exposes the entire width of the film but retains the same Super 8 clockwork.

 

For transfer... I see the problem; if you transfer on a 16mm gate you'd miss every other frame. You'd have to actually modify how much the film moved. Like a combination of a 16mm gate but a Super 8 film advancement. Then crop the top or bottom out manually and recenter/zoom in on the new image.

 

This is of course an intelectual argument as I agree it wouldn't make much sense to do one of these as a one-off unless transfer and film stock was available.

[Tim Carroll]

Does that double super 8 stock have some sort of perf in the center to split it or is just cut with a knife in processing?

 

Double eight has twice the number of sprocket holes (perfs) running down both sides of the film as regular "double perf" 16mm film. So if you shot it with a regular 16mm camera, there would be a perf in the center of each frame running down both sides.

 

What you may be able to do (and I am just guessing here as I have never compared the two, but Bolex used to make an H8 camera that was very similar to the H16 camera, and the H8 ran the double 8 film) but it may be possible to take the movement out of an H8 Bolex (which is an 8mm movement) and put it into an H16 Bolex, and then just modify the gate and not have to change the turret centering or anything else. I have no way of knowing if that would work, just a thought.

 

-Tim