Andrew Means

First thing to check is the little focus adapter on the eyepeice- I can't remember what that's called... Congrats, I really dig my R10 (I'll be posting footage I shot in Japan SOON), I hope you're happy with yours!

Awesome! Very educational.

I may do just that when I get back from my band's tour... I think that makes sense; I'll have a good idea of what to expect from the other footage and I'll know if its worth doing it right...

Odds are high that it doesn't have much of any 'low-light capabilities' - of course the light capabilities are influenced by the film speed, apeture, etc.- I don't know what angle the shutter is on your camera. Have you shot film yet on this camera? I can't stress enough that the best way to learn how to use your camera is to actually start *using* it. You'll get the film back and it'll give you a good idea of what light amounts work, what's in focus and what's not, etc.

The Japan footage is being telecine'd right now - I haven't even seen it! When I get it back you folks will be the first ones to see it!

Yeah- I only got two rolls of negative, and for 115 it's a little much. Next time I have a big batch maybe I'll send the whole thing there though- that would actually be cheaper if I hadn't already dropped my reversal off for telecine... I'll give it a shot in Vegas and see what I come up with. Should be interesting!

I'm using this-could-easily-look-like-crap-so-I'm-doing-this-roll-on-the-cheap telecine, so it won't be flipped for me. No colorist on this job, it's just travel footage from Japan; if there's anything I really like on it I might get it telecine'd professionally.

Any suggestions, tips, tutorials for somebody who's never done it before? I'll be using Sony Vegas 5

I just got some 200T and 500T developed at Alphacine in Seattle as part of my bulk batch from Japan, and they said they didn't make positive prints of negative super8 (and they didn't know of anybody who did). I suppose I could telecine the negative I have, and then flip the image in post- is that what most of you do?

damn, that bealieu looks like a Volkswagen beetle with a howitzer on top...

Hey Tom- Contact Tak at Retro Enterprises- he should be able to get you the name of the place in CA. http://film.club.ne.jp/english/englishindex.html Best of luck man! Andrew

Haha, yeah that tracking shot (how'd you do that, by the way?) and the shot where the guy with the rice hat zips away look like some anime I've seen. Excellent work. Good sound too...

While in Tokyo I met with a guy named Tak who runs a super8 store- he said he actually knew of a place in CA that can fix the light meters on R10's- Tom if yours is tits-up let me know and I'll try to get the name of the place.

Hey Tom- Congratulations on your purchase, I really like my R10... I have a manual somewhere, I'll see if I can upload it for you. It'll lay out how to work the overlap and disolve switches- it's pretty simple. As for the light meter- when there's no film in the camera the light meter ususally doesn't work very well for me- although sometimes it does. When there is film in the camera the light meter *should* work if you depress the trigger a bit. If you pull the EE-lock knob out then you should be able to change the apeture manually by turning it. If not then you may have a real problem. The filter key is a little metal thing that drops down into that slot with the plug- when in it disengages the 85b filter. I bought one for 1,000 yen while in Tokyo, but I'm sure they're for sale elsewhere, or you can make one with an old credit card. I'd almost recomend that more, as you can cut the card so it is held in place by the plug- then that way you don't have to worry about losing the plug while you have the filter in place. I can't help ya with the fungus... Hope you get some great footage out of this thing! Do you mind if I ask how much you paid for it? Andrew

great! Now start filming.

Youtube?

Looks great- super fuzzy, but I bet it looked way cooler than everybody else's digital projects. The one slow shot of the sky (kind of drops the energy in the middle of the chase, but eh) looked really cool. Keep shooting!

I probably wouldn't want to do that, if only because I want to be able to mount different cameras on there. Which means I'll need some kind of adjustable holder for the lipstick camera...

Thanks for all the info Tom I totally understand what you mean about the on-the-fly aspect of super8- I think what I'm going to shoot for is a glidecam type thing with the battery providing the bulk of the ballast at the bottom. I think if I can get the whole shooting rig onto something that I can walk around with over the course of a day then I'm probably okay. I lugged a 10lb tripod around Tokyo for a few days and while it wasn't the best thing for shopping, but it didn't kill me either, and It was ultimately worth it. Having something that was roughly the same weight but would let me do more fluid, moving shots would totally be worth it. I think I'm going to buy a glidecam 2000- although would it be too lightweight for my camera? I've got an R10 and I'm planning on buying a 814 XL-S... Anybody selling a used glidecam/steadycam jr.?

Yeah- I'm kind of figuring that if I'm going to be doing steadycam stuff, I'll probably be filming with the widest possible angle, so focus should be less of an issue- but you're right, it would be good to be able to see if the focus is on or not. If I was going to use this contraption (as a steadycam at least) I would probably be mostly unable to focus it while I was using it, so I would probably make sure I had it in focus before embarking on a shot. Tom, your story is inspiring! Do you have any footage online? I really want to push this whole thing to get some sweet shots- I was in Japan and there was so many times when I really wanted to capture motion and stuff, but knew I would just have a jittery mess if I shot it handheld... How about battery power? Are there rechargable 12v batteries around? How do you power yours, tom?

I'm thinking of (doing the stupid and not-really-necessary project of) making a steadycam-ish rig for my Super-8 camera, and I'd like to pick everybody's brain on a few things. http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews...o_Module_1.html I found this 5" monitor which seems like it could work- it runs off 12V, which seems like I could probably figure out how to rig a battery for, and it gets images via a S-video cable, so I'd probably be able to find a camera that ouputted s-video, though I know about zero in regards to this stuff, so I'm not sure. If my memory serves me correctly the Sleep Always guys made a little video monitor for filming sleep always, is that right? Anybody have any suggestions for a camera to use? If I remember correctly the Sleep Always crew just mounted the camera on top of the lens, so it was an approximation of what the film camera was seeing- but I think this could be useful for tripod shooting, too, so I think I'd like to at least try to go through the viewfinder. Any suggestions on all this?

Yeah, it would seem like they'd have to, as it tracks with the objects in the frame by moving the frame around... If it kept it at the same resolution you'd have these black bits constantly showing up on the edges.

Dang, pro8mm's 100D was bad? Anybody else have issue with it? I was inches away from buying some...

I pick up the footage today!

Hi Tom- I think you'll probably like the R10- I shot a ton of film with mine while I was in Japan and was definitely satisfied with the experience. I get the film back today or tomorrow!