Chris Burke

Time to go out and shoot some.

On 3/23/2020 at 3:47 PM, Hannes Famira said:

Hey Max, I am going down the route you mention with the Sony PMW-F3. I am recording on a Atomos Ninja Assassin, which has trouble with the format it receives over HDMI. Can you recommend a box that will convert the unusual data format coming from the F3 into something the Atomos recorder can handle?

Any HD video recorder or deck with HD-SDI input or HDMI input will do. Not sure what trouble you are having with the ninja assasin. I have used a NInja Star and Samurai Blade on the F3 with great results. I now have a Gemini 444 recorder and couldn't be happier. I rate the F3 quite high. Now quite cheap. It can be a bit noisy in low light at 6400iso, but the noise is random not fixed pattern like you will get with early Blackmagic models. I would steer clear of first generation blackmagic models on the whole. 

7 hours ago, Uli Meyer said:

That’s worrying,

According to California governor Gavin Newsom, nearly half of the state’s confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus were of people between the ages of 18 and 49.
 

 

that is most likely because that age group is the most social and are not heeding the warnings they are given. Look at New Orleans now since Mardi Gras. As soon as last week, several bars in Boston were jammed packed, according to the news. Lots of ignorant/selfish people out there.

What is it considered? I was shooting under tungsten light and of course when I white balance to a white card, the overall balance is neutral, white is white. However the color in camera and on screen is not how I perceive it. I see a warm cast under tungsten light. So it got me wondering, what is accurate? How is color  perceived by us humans, all things being equal. I realize that "look" varies from project to project, but what is considered true? I would think what we see and how we see it is normal, not what a sensor says it is. I shoot mostly on film and Kodak or Fuji when I shot it, rendered color much closer to how I see it. 

upon looking at the site I gave you, it seems to be old and perhaps not active any more. Not sure. Try calling or emailing them. Sorry

Try contacting these people. They seem to have a good deal of knowledge about the K3

http://www.k3camera.com/index.php

The Lighthouse deserved the Oscar.

Have you tried to contact British authorities? Your "outing" them here is great. Perhaps they think that due to geographical distance or that they are one of very few who can or will do this sort of work, that they have the upper hand. 

I have a former employer who decided not to pay his employees anymore. After many emails and texts back and forth, he has disappeared. Also perhaps thinking that I would give up or that he could hide. Now the attorney general's office is going after him and there is a good chance he will have to pay triple. Keep up the pressure, talk to the cops, hear what they have to say. I will think twice about Van Diemens.

Very lovely. Looking forward to seeing the final cut. I have shot S16 7222 on Nikon AI-S lenses and the contrast and sharpness were gorgeous. 

Has the Magellan been released yet? 

Try PhotoRec to recover the media. 

Further more. It is very heartening to see young filmmakers embracing film(celluloid) like in the afore mentioned Safdie Brothers films and The Lighthouse. 

There is an overall narrative of the "kid" and the bounty on it's head. you are correct about the 30 minutes not being enough. Given how much they are spending, you would think there would be more. I also think they won't resolve anything in the given time left this season. Watch how Disney plus enrollment drops off a cliff come the new year. 

. I am intrigued that Adam Sandler is doing a "straight" role rather than his usual schtick. I haven't seen it yet, but did see the trailer and not surprised at all that 35mm was used since the Safdie brothers made it. Good Time looks similar and was as wonderful film, shot in 2 perf. 

But with all that money spent per episode, they still felt they couldn't trust a wonderful puppet and the puppeteer/s. So they did a CGI "kid" just in case. A big thanks to Herzog for standing up for the working man or woman by voicing his displeasure. I am a fan of the show, but will dump Disney + when this first season concludes in a couple of weeks. Way to small of a catalogue to stay with them.

Check out Jordorowski's Dune. A great doc about what could have been. In it, he is rather critical of David Lynch's Dune, as am I. Perhaps this is the time for Dune. 

And with that cast and high end crew, salaries were through the roof, probably a good fifty percent of the budget. 

I fell asleep

Just a side note:

The IMDB technical specs I have found to sometimes be inaccurate. Not that it has to do anything with your question about a film out, but you can not take what they list on the website as fact. 

I recommend the F3 to anyone considering it. The footage looks great!

What condition is the camera in after the mod? Does he have to crack it open? I just dropped the dime on a Gemini REcorder thinking if there was a way to do just what you have spoken of. Have you used one of his mods? What happens to the menus??

On 11/20/2019 at 4:49 PM, Webster C said:

I loved the shots of the food! Simultaneously delicious-looking and curiously disgusting, I think because I couldn't quite tell what they were eating.

It looked like Cod and Brus to me

On 10/4/2019 at 6:46 PM, Jarin Blaschke said:

Actually Kodak does have a cleaner stock available: TriX. Process as a negative, rating at 100 and pull one stop. It’s far superior to Double X, which I find intolerable in 16mm. I’ve tested side by side.

Kodak also stated that they can special order TriX for 35mm, but the per foot charge is very high. I don’t know what the minimum would be.

Tmax emulsions don’t have enough flexibility and forgiveness for motion picture use. If a mom and pop lab overdevelops TMax 100, the highlights are fried. It is also more finicky for exposure. 

 

Jarin

 

 

Jarin,  did you find processing the Tri-X as a negative increased exposure latitude at all? I have some and have often thought about the cross process. 

 I have to say that the lighthouse is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. You certainly deserve an oscar as does the cast. The film has inspired myself and some friends to keep shooting film, especially black and white. I have a few rolls of 7265  Plus-X and 7231 Plus X that I was saving and now have found a reason to use them. Thank you!

there is no problem shooting the modern stocks. If the camera is functioning properly, quite probably NOT, the only thing that will happen is that the stock will be overexposed, which is a good thing. Modern stocks have huge exposure latitude, so don't worry. Coming from a photography background, you already know all the basics. Get a good spot meter. Get a 85 filter to use in front of the lens for the tungsten stock outdoors. Make sure the internal 85 is always disengaged. it is over 40 years old, so probably not in that great shape. The super8wiki site says that it has auto exposure. It has a 225º shutter, so it will be 1/38th at 24fps. If it is only auto exposure, the only thing that you have control over is the film stock. So 50D outdoors sunny, 200t indoor well lit, outdoor cloudy, 500t low light, evening.  

But what are your expectations? I have shot the 500T on a cloudy day outdoors with no worries. The Sankyo 255XL I shot with metered it as 160 ISO. With an 85 up front, that is one stop over and it looked great!

Their film stock is really cool but really expensive.  I was able to get some test footage very close in look to the Lomochrome Purple. Granted they have some still film stocks that are truly unique, but you can get the same look via Photoshop, Resolve or the like. Is this new one that unique?  I support them as much as my wallet allows. Digital still bores the heck out of me. It just seems that you can do the same thing cheaper on your own.

Kodak stocks are made to intercut very well. 250D in full daylight is going to be low grain. 50D in full daylight will be grainless and very sharp. The colors contrast and overall look will be very similar between the two.