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John-Erling Holmenes Fredriksen

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  1. No added grain, that’s just the sensor noise (which is quite lovely on the ARRI)
  2. I wrote a little bit about the process of pushing the ARRI Alexa to 2500 ASA for “Made in Oslo” which is competing for the Golden Nymph at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival next month. Thought some might find it interesting. http://johnerling.no/blog/2022/5/6/kg63lcplguxcirlpbxu5se2p0lffdm
  3. Mostly Vision 3 500T (also for daylight), but the double exposures were expired Fuji Eterna 250D
  4. Hawk 1.3x anamorphics, makes scope out of S16mm (or 16:9 out of 4:3).
  5. Thanks! Film based artifacts were intentional, it's the final version ?
  6. Thanks! As a starting point I underexposed a stop, setting the ISO to half the amount. But I of course made some individual judgement for each frame, depending on what I wanted to see. For example the shadow side of their faces I wanted to be see through, to fill them with the next exposure, so I made sure they were well under, exposing for the details outside the window instead.
  7. Thanks, that’s a good idea! For anyone interested, this is the final video with the effect: https://vimeo.com/364123783
  8. Just to follow up. We did this effect using the 416. But discovered that we could not simply shoot out the roll and reload it, because it would then be upside down with the sprockets on the wrong side. So we had to shoot out the roll and then manually roll it back into the feed compartment inside a loading tent. It was time consuming ? We could not access another camera that could actually rewind, but I would recommend that to do this efficiently.
  9. I’m intending to do some double exposures on 16mm film with an Arri 416 camera. The most rudimentary method I could think of is just expose the entire roll (one stop underexposed, or however I feel is appropriate for the subject), make notes of the contents, and then reload the same film to shoot the second layer. But sometimes it would be really convenient to be able to just «rewind» the film right away to do the second layer. As far as I can see from the manual, there is no such function in the camera. I guess you could open the mag and do it manually, but it sounds cumbersome. Anyone done this and know a good method that I haven’t though of?
  10. I just graduated from The Norwegian Film School, with this video as one of my graduation projects. Any comments are much appreciated. I could say a lot about the project and the circumstances, but it's always more fun to just let people experience it, and then hear what they're left with. http://vimeo.com/elling/66725 Enjoy. --- John-Erling Holmenes Fredriksen Cinematographer Oslo, Norway http://johnerling.no
  11. That makes sense. Although, as Phil points out, an m4/3 mount can easily be adapted to anything, including EF and PL :)
  12. I know it's not, but writing the actual dimensions takes longer, and it's close enough to be a valid concern. It's smaller than m4/3 and a bit larger than s16. It is pretty far away from 35. I don't mind the sensor size, I shot a lot with the SI-2k and loved it, and I love shooting 16, I just think they've made a serious mistake with mount options. They should at least supply a m4/3 mount, as those lenses would give a better range of focal lengths, even though I'd hate to use them for filming. Whether 16mm lenses would cover it, I don't know, but I've tested quite a few 16mm lenses on a m4/3 sensor, which is larger, and found that you can get pretty wide before you get vignetting. Either way, having a sensor that is marginally larger than 16, with mount options for 35mm lenses, is just not a good idea. No matter how cool the camera is otherwise.
  13. Yeah, because why oh why is there no PL mount so we can use 16mm-lenses on it? 35mm EF-mount is completely bullocks on an as-good-as 16mm sensor... I mean, how often can you go out on a job and make do with only normal and long focal lengths? "Director: Hmm, can we go a bit wider on this one? DoP: Eeeh, the thing is..." I'm not saying the camera won't have it's uses, and at that price it looks like an incredible piece of image capturing goodness, but geez, such a simple thing that would open up even more gates...
  14. Having gone through this exact process with an experienced post house in Norway for a short aiming at international festivals, my understanding is that 24 is highly recommended. I assume you will create a DCP, as a lot of international festival are using local movie theaters, and international movie theaters are slowly but surely going digital. In Norway every cinema is digital, but we're a bit ahead of the bunch on this one. When making a DCP you have to take into consideration that the DCI specification still does not support 25 fps. So even if you can create a DCP that is 25 fps, which will play on a lot of digital cinemas, there is also a lot of equipment deployed in worldwide cinemas that only support the DCI standard 24 fps (and 48). So you'd have to make a 24 fps DCP for those theaters. This means you're 25 fps film will play (marginally) slower in those cinemas, and your sound quality will be (marginally) worse because you'd have to stretch the waveform to get from 25 to 24. If you shoot 24, you will also have to make 25 fps versions for broadcast and DVD, but theatrical projection would always be my first priority, and the people in the know says going from 24 to 25 is preferable to the other way around because your movie will play a bit faster (better too fast than too boring) and your sound waveform will be compressed instead of stretched (better quality sound). Anyway, that was the recommendation from my post house and their reasoning. We decided to shoot 24, and have had no issues so far.
  15. Well, the eminent mr. David Mullen already covered pretty much everything. I would just add that I personally always like to shoot a greyscale so that whatever happens, I know there is one fixed parameter that I can refer to. Even when sitting in on a transfer, my eyes can get biased and confused over time, even while taking all precautions. The time and effort required to shoot one, pretty much always makes it worthwhile in my book. John-Erling Holmenes Fredriksen Student Cinematographer The Norwegian Film School
  16. I would be concerned about sharpness. HDSLR is very noticeably softer than RED, as the resolution is nowhere near that of RED, actually not even 1920x1080. I can easily see the difference in sharpness right away, even on my MacBook Pro screen. As for depth of field, they should not be too dissimilar. Of course, the RED will have a greater latitude, but you can probably work around that with careful exposure, and maybe tweaking some extra contrast into your RED-material, while not grading the 7D too much. Also, if you're doing handheld stuff, make sure you get a good handheld rig for the 7D, otherwise it will be very shaky and jelloish. You need weight and a good config to hold it the way you like, as well as an external monitor for those off angles where you'll have trouble watching the screen or using a viewfinder. If resolution is not too critical for your project, then yes, I think you could make it work. As long as you expose very carefully. Do some tests maybe?
  17. Another advantage tungsten units have over KinoFlo's that should be mentioned is color. Personally I much prefer the color you can get from from a tungsten unit over the color a tungsten KinoFlo-bulb produces. KinoFlo have lots of other advantages though. And you get a lot of light per watt.
  18. Those are watts, yes, look here for different wattages: http://www.arri.de/lighting/europe_asia_au..._lampheads.html
  19. I too find them a bit annoying at times. They have no effect when the viewfinder is not yet plugged in.
  20. Hey all I'm prepping for a short film, and there's a scene where I want to create a light that looks like it's bouncing off gold and into the character's faces. I've been looking through my Lee filter swatch, and found a few I liked, but I thought I'd post here as well to hear if anyone has a personal favourite or recommendation to achieve this look. The ones I liked in my swatchbook so far are: - Lee 101 Yellow - Lee 764 Sun Colour Straw - Lee 765 Lee Yellow The scene will take place in a barn, and we're using beams of daylight as a key motivation. This means that any tungsten light incorporated into the scene will feel quite warm. I'm also imagining the gold as a bit warm, with a clear yellow tint. Any thoughts?
  21. I guess they've gotta say something, seeing as RED has said just about everything else ;)
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