Chris Gravat

If you want to get the best stocks you are going to have to order from pro 8mm. They take 35mm stocks and cut them down for super 8. They have everything you can imagine, but unless you are willing to drive to LA you will have to trust them to ship you the film. Its 30 bucks per cartridge and that includes processing, after that all you gotta worry about is the transfer. Oh btw they do that aswell. www.pro8mm.com - Chris Gravat Orlando, FL

24 fps is the standard in the united states and some other countries for syncing sound to picture. But if only it was that easy, the camera must be crystal sync to achieve perfectly synced sound. Although if you are shooting at 24 fps without crystal sync you can manage to stay in sync for roughly 25 secs,if you run the camera longer than that your sync will drift when syncing in post. 18 fps, as stated before is "the home movie standard." Sound cannot be synced to 18fps, and when 18 fps is projected at 24 fps the picture appears to be sped up (in the 24 fps world 18fps is called undercranking) All the films you watch at the theater are projected at 24 fps, if theres any fast motion in the film you are watching at the theater then it was shot at a lower frame rate (undercranked.) The opposite is overcranking= slow motion (36fps, 48fps etc.) when projected at 24 fps. Hope this answered your question. - Chris Gravat Orlando, FL

okay, so i have enjoyed reading this thread. and of course i have a few comments. The "EE", that means Electronic Exposure.... same thing as auto. Just make sure you enter your ASA on the dial. As far as the whole ASA thing goes, it works the same way as ISO for your SLR camera. Slow film (64 ASA, 100 ASA) you get alot tighter grain and need alot of light. The higher your ASA the more grainy the film will be and the less light you will need. I would get into the whole silver halide crystal size differing with different ASA's, but what i stated above should get you where you need to go as far as a basic understanding of ASA. - Chris Gravat Orlando, FL

The Manfrotto 501 and 503 Heads are great. I think you can get the 503 with sticks for around $500.00 from B&H. - Chris Gravat

I think the problem might be with your camera. That's just judging from what you said about your friend's footage coming back clean. What kind of camera is it? And also how long has it been since you had the body and lens serviced? - Chris Gravat

http://www.bonolabs.com This place requires a deposit for the hard drive. But they do offer uncompressed HD Transfers direct to hard drive. - Chris Gravat

Try Du-All camera in NY. www.duallcamera.com

Well you can try to get a PDF of the manual. The manual will tell you the shutter speeds at different frame rates. From that you can figure out the shutter angle with a bit of math. I am 80% sure that the shutter is the same as my 4008ZM. But if you can get a hold of a manual for your camera you'll be all set. Try Du-All Camera in NY they deal with alot of Beaulieu S8 cams, who knows maybe they will have a copy of the manual. - Chris Gravat DP / Editor Orlando, FL

When filming in light with a color temp of 5500 k (Daylight) and using tungsten balanced film (3200k) the correct external filter is an 85B. The test rolls will be a great opportunity to see what your DOF is at different focal lengths, T stops, and subject distances. Make sure you keep detailed camera reports to get the highest quality transfer. Unfortunately I do not have any experience with the 2056, so this is all the info I can provide. Good luck. - Chris Gravat DP / Editor Orlando, FL

Well if you do the equation 360/100 x fps you get the shutter speeds listed in the manual for each framerate of the camera. This guillotine shuter is quite unique, I am hoping my images will only strobe like saving private ryan-ish with increased shutter speeds (Which I know they will). But I hope at 24 fps I can just get a nice sharp look with some of the reformatted Vision 2 that pro8mm offers. I'll let you guys know how the test rolls come out. - Chris Gravat DP / Editor Orlando, FL

Okay, so I guess the variable shutter angle is reffering to the slide machanism at the top of the camera for in camera fades and such. From the info I have looked at in the manual I have concluded that the shutter angle is always at 100 degrees. I am going to shoot a few test rolls and see how precise I can get my exposure with my Sekonic 558 Dual Master. Thanks for all the replies everyone. - Chris Gravat DP / Editor Orlando, FL

Hello, I recently purchased a Beaulieu 4008ZM. I am wanting to use my incedent meter for exposure. The only problem is that I am having a hard time finding concrete information about the shutter angle and shutter speed of the camera. This is what I have gathered from the ZMII manual via PDF. At 18fps the shutter speed is 1/65, at 24fps the shutter speed is 1/86, and at 36fps it is 1/130. I know that a guillotine shutter is quite different from a rotary disc shutter. I guess what I am wondering is, why do they call this a variable guillotine shutter if I cannot change the shutter angle. And if my calculations are correct the shutter angle stays 100 degrees at all times. At least thats what I figured out based on the shutter speeds listed above. If anyone can make some sense of all this I would appreciate it. - Chris