Fredrik Backar FSF

Don´t know about Pale rider.. But Unforgiven certainly used as much natural light as possible being highly influensed by Sven Nykvist. Try for the Kodak 250D. Great film wich also lets you shoot a little longer into the evening. If you like your Angenieux then go for it, but I would probably also bring some faster primes if you end up in a lighting tight spot... wide, normal, tele to have a bit of choice. Polarizer is a great tool in the open air... If you have very little budget then shiny-boards reflecting sun through diffusionframes are very nice and simple. Polyboards + black and soft silver are always helpful. If a little more budget (and more people...) Then bring some larger frames with a variety of say: silks, black stop, griffolyn, chequered, and silver. Hope I´m of some help :) Cheers!!

Shot night interior on vision 2 500T 5218 and hawk anamorphics. F-stop was 4 and the only light for one scene was an oil lamp and a heavily flagged 300 fres bounced into depron at about 3m distance. Face was one under and backgrounds picked up nicely dark (wooden walls that didn´t even pick up on meter.) Just an example of what can be done with little lighting. No additional push was applied. Loved the textures in Eyes wide shot. An entity of its own adding more grit and organic feel. Miles away from digital formats (I must add to cause a stirr :P ) Cheers!

Any old Weston meter is proficient enough. They do the job and don´t cost anything. The new 608 is very nice though, my best buy this far :D !! checkout www.hksupplies.com.

I much look forward to seeing the film as it probably is very good I would guess. The videoformat on the big screen does not excite me though.... as does nothing in the videorealm right now..... Bergmans Saraband looked awful... It will be good to see for knowlege though. Thought even a small quicktime of collateral on the net poured with video 2-d and terrible skintones! Cheers/FREDRIK

Hey ya´ll. S-8 dicussions any day guys!! here´s a Swedish forum www.klubbsuper8.com Fredrik Broman! Hej du. Fick du sitta länge utanför grindarna?? Kaffet måste ha blivit kallt.... Synd att de blev så.... Synes framöver!! :D

David this is great!! Love to hear all the tech things! The slant focus.... Have yet to hear of... elaborate when u have time. Cheers/fred.

Any work of Michael Mann. Though especially the insider and Ali. Believe him to be the most recent one to ad a new layer to the visual style of overall cinema. So many have followed in that path, or I should say tried to follow. Sadly the old man has fallen for the viper....

I´ve used the pro-35 PS adapter many times and it´s a very nice tool if forced into the video world.

I second the Gross.... The sharpness and resolution isn´t the issue at all for me really... Perfect examples with the passion and cold mountain. They could have been shot in s-8 for all I care, I love that format :) A friend of mine who is a director asked me why these two films felt "distant". However I´m not saying not to use tha Di!! Please do, since that´s the only way it´ll progress:)

Hey all! Been a while.. Saw discussion on DI`s. This earlystage talk always arouses according to history=) I personally very much dislike what i´ve seen on DI work so far, and really find it strange that the very big ones that I admire SEEM only to care about the convenience aspect this far and not the qualiyt. Have read about many who dislike it also though. Don´t want to argue about this an any way... I´m just woundering how it can be that, say Daviau or Deschanel really doesn´t seem to at all see a difference?? And for me that would be read as degradation in quality. Btw. don´t like dupes either, but this far (From hands on work in the baggage) I really can´t say I´d choose the DI. I don´t see it all the time in films though. More or less I´d say. Sometimes it really hits me though. Picture feels "distant".... But it will of course get better and in the mean time I won´t use it :D DAVID! Question.... In how great an extent was terminator 2 dabbled with digitally?? I think it looks very nice. I know about the s-65 usage, but was there any "scan to laser out"?? BTW. Congrats on the asc thing David!! TAke care!

Worked on music vid the other day as electrician where the DP used a pd150, a magic arm and a mamayia rz67. fixed the videocamera in position in macro with the magicarm and filmed the groundglass of the mamayia.... None-moving grainstructure yes, but some very intriguing and nice shots though :D

HI! Check this link! Wasn´t shot by me; but I´m thinking chimeras with medium fab-grids at some distans with maybe 1.2k hmi´s iném... just a guess. Dont get the angle of the light too steap at the camera as the rims may burn. Close.ups look like kino to me. Take care :) http://mcms-delivery.virtuebroadcasting.co...96-AD34346A1B9E

A counter action man!! :D Nice that someone opposes too.... I still Think that it´s all in the context of what u are doing from time to time.. I will for sure use the12 and17 but not stop using the 48 and 72... they are great in their own ways... Tony!!! Your home page has some damn good stuff on it!! Very good work :)

OK. Maybe something in projection then... :)

solid blacks and nice textures... mid grays in faces are a bit unitonal though I think,,, used it alot in school times=) FP4 that is.. The kodak has a harder contrast if I remember right (been a while...) Nicer graintexture too...

Back to thought though.... I found that the colour in mid range was the same in all vision2 stocks, but, in lower tones all except the 18 turned greenish... In wide shots the 100 asa for instance, made faces afar look completely green I thought... Is this only me??? Didn´t like digi intermediate on material..... Should have been printed regularly.... Some things just looked 2:d.

Hi! saw the demo for 5212/17 yesterday. I found the skintones as opposed to the 18 to be alot more green... What are your thoughts on this?? Anyone else saw this too?? Just a matter of the grading?? :)

Very strange!! There was a prior pick from Alien in there too if that is of substance.... Could it be some type of leader??? :huh:

TNX :D

Woundering about the so called Ultra polarizer. Have not tried this, in what way does it differ from the regular polarizer?? Tnx :)

Ah! Sorry you did say your name Joe.... Do sony pay a lot for this lobbying???? :D

I second that! :D And buying your lights comes with insurance and mending fees. Try something if u want... I used Lycra as diffusion on a similar shot. I put it on a 2m by 2m frame and shot 4 2k`s through it. It softens very well but eats alot of light. Good luck!

I´m a bit off here... The enhancer and the 812 is of the same kind right...? Or is there an enhancer I have yet to meet??:) I think, that you should probably go for Mullen`s way. As I think warm colours are a bit exggerated as it is in the 200T, just use the enhancer and punch in with a hard board in the blouse, I´m very sure it will pop like a cork:) Once made a shot of a frozen lake on an overcast day with a sunset in background(200T with 85). The shot was essentially half corrected blue due to the very high temp outside at that time. In the shot was a red booyie. (is that the right spelling????) It looked like a laserpointer was hitting the ice:) It´s probably, mostly in the contrast of the scene it self. A lot of snow with a bright colour amidst will certainly make the shirt pop. Pick your shirt carefully:) Hope it sounds ok to u. Take care!!

Hi scubba. Fred here too. Like David said; don´t get too worried about spotreadings... The only thing I spot read was a mountain range very far away that we shot. The reminder of surroundings usually fall naturally into place. I´d stay normal on the faces If I were u. But for an effect though it could be good if u want to. Good luck!!!!

I´m sure you´ll be fine! You have a lot of ideas and seem to have a great vision to follow. Some behind the scenes from my pic can be found here:http://www.thefilmset.com/gallerix/03/0311/backar/index.htm Best of luck to you!!!!