Pablo Villegas

Uncoated lenses and the ENR (skip bleach) process helps, at least from my experience, although when I shot a short with the skip bleach process and uncoated lenses those flares only appeared while projecting film, they were gone when transfered to video. I just got the Saving Private Ryan Bluray, and I think it looks to "clean" much of the grittiness is gone, I remember it to be more monochromatic, and in BD has a lot of color, I think it lost some of the ENR look, and some grain, maybe it's just me. Did some else noticed this too?

Hi Mitch, Well, I haven't tried any other tripod on the movietube. That's the one(C40) they gave me with the adpater. The place I rented it here(Aatomo Rentals), might be connected with Abelcine? they rent the same kind of things you do. Regards

Xavier Perez Grobet is a great recommendation, he doens't have the exact same style as Prieto, but I'm sure he can do what your script calls for. You can check his work in Before Night falls. Another good cinematographer is Carlos Marcovich, he did the cinematpgraphy on Comandante along with Prieto. I've worked with all 3 of them(before they became international) and they are great cinematographers.

The Movietube is great, but it does offers some limitations, firts it loses a lot of light! like 2 stop plus what the lens is losing. So the HVX I understand is like a 640 ISO, so you'll be shooting wiht the adpater at 125 ISO or less! if your script involves night exteriors, you'll need a lot of light! It weights a lot and add the Camera a PL lens rods and a Mattebox and you have a very heavy setup, so you'll need a big tripoid along with it's head, I've used the Cartoni C40. Where I live (Mexico city) you can only rent the Movietube Lt and that takes handheld shots away from the project, even if you manage to hand held that heavy setup, the operator can't frame because you need an external HD LCD. That Problem is solved with the Movietube ST, that has shoulder pads and you can fit it with a HD viewfinder for the operator. About a single operator, well it depends, if you have rather estatic(not moving) shots, yes, one operator can frame it and pull the focus, but if you have hand held or any other moving shots, someone needs to pull the focus for those.