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  1. I've come back from the Blackhole in the world to say this. Two will battle and one will win. I'm putting my money on thee blueray discs. Ihave seen both in Bestbuy and Sony Style and people seem to be more interested in it. Pluswhen I went to see a Blueray versus HD DVD demonstration Sony was doing in their store, Blueray came out looking better for quality on the split screen demo they had. In all honesty I don't see a split format thing honestly going to be that big really. Plus out where I'm from HD-DVD has been around and hasn't been catching on. Blueray is and I think thats going to be the next format. I say in five years everything will be Blueray and DVD will be gone.
  2. Is kodak closing the plant in Peabody MA? I've heard rumors and was wondering if they're true.
  3. What is up with all the emo kids taking over the world lately? Anyways the video was nicely done I say.
  4. There is another solution but it mights be a little costly. You could you LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) televisions and screens. Frame rates and sync's are not a problem with LCD screens, because electricity is shot though liquid crystal which changes and morphs it into different shapes and colors to produce images and it doesn't use scanning at all. I've shot it with film and video for years and have never had a problem.
  5. Okay heres what I have to say. 1. Doesn't any one make paragraphs any more. I hate trying to read blobs. 2. A bunch of corolotations and random facts can be connected to prove and idea. 3. Kodak has taken a blow and its stock has gone down because of digital cameras in the market. Back in they day you had only one choice, film. Now you have reusable digital that is taking a chunk of the image pie.
  6. Any general house oil would be good for lubrication.
  7. I say just use the format and post-setup you think you will be most comfortable with. Also depends on what type of computer you have.
  8. Well you can go from one format to another one with relative ease like in the guys instructions above. Its just as simple as clicking and dragging from one sequence to another.
  9. I shoot outside with the built in 85 filter in my camera. The footage came out with normal colors and looked fine. Normals colors. My camera was also one of the last super model S8 cameras made by B&H so that also might have something to do with it. But I like the stock. I think people rag on it too much because they are POD at kodak for discontinuing Kodachrome and stuff.
  10. If your just looking to fool around with film then go with the super 8. Its a lot cheaper than sixteen.
  11. Hey has anyone ever played around with the Constant slowmotion effects in FCP. I did it for HDV footage the other day and it was incredible as to how the fluidity of the image movment was maintained. It looked like over cranked film. I took the same raw footage and converted it down to SD. Then I did the slowmotion effects on the SD and it was kind of blurred in the movement like always. I was wondering if any one else has noticed this. Thinks it has something to do with how High Def works.
  12. In post production you can increase the brightness by doing a gamma and highlight correction. I would decrease the gamma to around .84 and it should improve the picture's visibilty and keep color deteroiration to a minimal. I'll do some test on your pics and get back to you. Due note when changeing the gama to a lower setting the picture will lose color and become B&W. My recommendation however is if you can refilm then do it, keeping everything that the people above said in mind. Doing corrections for severe problems in post is only as a last resort because there is only so much you can do.
  13. If you got some old stuff like that and if its in real good condition it could be worth up to $100 on ebay. Sometimes the old retro stuff in new condition does hold some value.
  14. Good news my idea for running the film through 2 wet cotton balls and 6 dry cotton balls for drying seems to work. I got half the sploches off and more of the red die. I will do it again but more slowly tommorow and it should get the rest of everything on there. Plus that link of the film care book I have seen it before and yes it does contain a lot of usefull info for everything.
  15. Alright here are pics results from cleaning using two methods. A dry, clean velevet cloth and a vacum with velvet on the attachments to prevent abrasions, running the film throught a seald box as well. Before cleaning After the cleaning with a dry velvet cloth Before cleaning After cleaning with the vacum with velvet on the attachment The dry velvet gets the larger pieces of dust off but seems to moves the dirt specs around. The Vacum gets it all. I tried velvet with isproypll on the cloth to clean but the die on the cloth ran and got it on the film. I washed the film quickly and improperly with 3 baths off 70% Isopropyl and 30%distilled water cause I had nothing else to get the red dye off. I got most of the die off but now the film is sploched cause I could properly dry it in time. How would I clean it to get sploches off. Like you now how a sweaty glass leaves water rings on the table when you don't use a coaster. Any body have a suggestion. I'm looking through the kodak links that were posted on cleaning right now. I am thinking of attemtping another try with they isopropyll but with but will use a cotton marteial to wet clean it, then I will clean the dust and cotton bits off with the vacum and dry velvet teqnique. What I am looking for is a hand cleaning method of removing sploches. I think one of the Iso chemicals on kodaks website mights actually be lying around some where I will have to look.
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