Pawel Saladziak

Hi. I have one of these, already a year. First of all if you want shoot sound sync, be prepared to make some housing to make it more quiet. Secondary, for sound sync you have to use a stabilised motor (there is one model specialy made for this camera) it is not crystal ysnc but the variations are not too big, it takes 3 x 250 V DC, so probably you will have to make additional power converter for this. And second thing - if you still want to buy this camera, ask seller for the pictures of inside, because there is one big gear inside that can be dammaged and its quite hard to have it replaced. Right now I;m waiting for my lightmeter and reels to load the camera and make first shooting. best regards Pawel

Well, I'm not sure if I understood this correctly, but if so, then the easiest way would be to do a composition in computer based on scanned frames. 1. Shooting different places. 2. Prepare static image layout for placing live footage during compositing procedure plus eventually stattic masks for some places if you want to have for example a rat walking under the floor of the second floor 3. compose the shoots together If you are able to have your shooting scanned or telecined (its much ceapper but the effect is not so good) then I can compose this on my system for free ;-). regards Pawel

Hi. I have a problem. I bought Kodak Visiont 500T and 100T film. They are unexposed. Stocks are in London now, and I'm in Poland. ;-) My friend can take them, while traveling by plane, by on the Kodak website they say that scanners on airport will damage the negatives. I called the Stansted Airport helpdesk, and the lady told me that unexposed films that are less sensitive that 3000 will not be destroyed on the security point where they check the hand luggage. Can anyone share some opinion on dealing with such a situation and problem? regards pawel

Thanks for reply. Now for sure I know, I will scan from negatives. I have bougth kodak's vision 500 film for test shooting and I have another question, I want to shoot 96 fps. The subject is going to be a falling orange on the blue screen. For lightning I have only two ordinary garden halogen lamps (500 W) with bad color teperature. I want to replace bulbs for the OSRAM bulbs that gives 3000K. How do you think, is the diffrence of light from 3200K source is so different that I will not be able to color correct my shooting during online edits (i.e. on the computer workstation)? regards pawel

Hi all. First of all I'd like to say what a great place this forum is for sharing knowledge. I'm preparing to my first shooting. I want to shoot for slo-motion takes. I have Pentaflex 16 that will run at 96 fps - and that gives me 4 times slower motion when played normally. The subject is going to be stuff like a falling orange, ice cubes, water drops etc... All shots on the blue screen. I have bought recently a 16mm Kodak Vision 500 stock for this shooting. Tungsten ballanced. I have two 500W flood lights, that gives 3000k light. I want to shoot a few differend fps speeds, for most of the speeds and shutter angles I have time exposition chart on pentaflex camera. Last thing I need now Is a lightmeter. So my question is: 1: can you advice me some cheap secondhand cine lightmeter to spot on ebay? 2. is 3000k light ok for shooting on the stock I mentioned above for further keying in postproduction? regards Pawel

HI. I'd like to set up my Kinor and Pentaflex for this cheap video tap that you have used. What kind of camera have you used. Are you able to name it? b.t.w - a great first time work regards Pawel

Hi. Finally I have my camera :-) Its Pentafex16 I want to make my first shooting. So I have some questions. First - what I have for my project: For shooting: Pentaflex16 camera, 3 standard lenses plus 2 zoom lenses, 3 engines (fixed 25 fps with plug for wall outlet, 16/24/25/32 for 12V, and fixed 96 fps for 12V). For lightning: Two 500 W halogen lamps. For post production and color correction: Discreet Flame 9.5 First thing I want to shoot is a slow motion with this 96 fps engine. Pentaflex has 180 - 0 fully adjustable shutter so all I know now is that I need a proper light meter that will help me select proper stop on the lens, jeez I have never done it before ;-), so excuse me any dumb stuff that I write here. First question: what lightmeter should I buy? (I would prefer some used stuff due to limited budget) Second question: what color stock should I use? (I want to shot falling orange on blue/green screen. Halogen lamps that I have gives very warm yellowish light. I can do color correction on my system) Third question: After developing process I want to scan my shooting on ArriScan into 16bit dpx files. Do I have to make a positive film for that or ArriScan can scan negatives and then reverse them? well, for beginning thats all of my doubts, please help me ;-)

do you know where I can convert it to super 16 and if all original lenses cover full frame after s16 conversion? regards Pawel

Hi all, in next two weeks I will obtain one or maybe even two Pentaflex 16 cameras. I know that both of them have standard set of 3 lenses for their turrets, one of them has one more lens probably some kind of zoom, nut what I need is a macro lens so i want to find it. And there comes the question, what kind of mounting is used in lenses that suits for Pentaflex 16 camera?