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Paul Bruening

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  1. It looks like there's enough to expose with already there. Are you concerned about the windows blowing out? If so, gel the windows and/or add light to the interior. EDIT: or frame the shots without the windows.
  2. There's a flip side of that coin. I pretty much prefer coming up with ideas. But, I have to be able to do enough of every job or those ideas will never see the light of day.
  3. We haven't even addressed what averaging two strips of film means in terms of resolution. No one bothered to manipulate grains even by category since there was nothing to replace the loss in mass. But with two strips you have twice the analog data to work with. Grains could be reduced in situ, thereby increasing resolution with no overall loss in grain mass (of course, when I say grain mass, I mean dye mass).
  4. Hello again Ben, Have you had a chance to go through the previous posts, yet? I think we could put our brains together on this, putting the goals closer within reach. I don't have any money to compensate you. Post services at cost is all I have to trade.
  5. Hey John, I wasn't trying to buck you on this bipack thing. It's just that if a solution could be found any camera from 16mm to IMAX could do cine HDRI if it can handle two strips or be slightly modified to handle two. But, I couldn't find a solution under any circumstances. So, I'm back to the two heads are better than one approach. I'm hoping I didn't get a response to my nagging for graph scrutiny because it indicates that they may be okay as they are. Though, I wouldn't mind a few people still looking them over and making their best guess and posting it.
  6. Sadly, I don't see how globalization can be stopped just to keep our jobs. As the rest of the world moves up from third and second world economies closer to first world, ours will drop to second world. Given the dire poverty so much of the world has been locked in while we partied down, I guess the humanitarian side of me can live with this loss, grumbling under my breath along the way.
  7. We've been there on this approach. It will take me a while to find it as it is a thread from a couple years back. If I can find it, it will save you some brain cells.
  8. This sounds like a job for SUPER TECHNISCOPE MAN!!! You could have messed up 1,500 feet of 35mm for that $300.00. A bargain in the world of messing up. I shot 2 200 footers recently for tests. I left the pressure plate out of the first 50' of the first roll. I wrapped the first 15' of the second roll in the head. I shot the last 1/4 of the second roll with the 85 filter on in night shots (tungsten roll). It had been so long since I had run a camera that I didn't run those critical check lists in my head and goofed because of it (I'm going to print the check lists out, have them laminated and put them in my DP case). Not kidding. It is cheaper to screw-up in 2-perf.
  9. Those pike columns were formidable in their day. ...back on topic, "I once cut a whole feature with nothing more than a Swiss halberd and a case of chewing gum."
  10. I've heard of this trick but never seen it. It does seem dubious. Pull the trunk lid off the car and set a portable genny on something that will cut down on vibration like sound blankets. Get a scratch track and loop in post. EDIT: Lash it in so it doesn't tump-over.
  11. Any boggles trying to match the man to Finian's Rainbow?
  12. Between the commentaries and documentary I have heard numbers as low as one million feet and as high as two million feet shot total. Odds are it's not in the movie. Taking the higher number and dividing it by the first release, that's a 133:1 shooting ratio. According to the commentaries their first rough cut ran 5.5 hours. I wouldn't mind watching it all.
  13. Respect of intellectual property is part of our system of ethics. It is a good sensibility. Without it fewer people would bother to create. I suspect that if torrents and other avenues of illegal exchange aren't curtailed through proper channels the entertainment industry as a whole may have to resort to its own solutions like flooding torrents with advanced virus copies of their product. That applies the fine through another approach directly to the offender by disabling but not destroying the M.O. of the crime.
  14. This is the first one that popped in my head, I must confess.
  15. Changing the grain density of each strip could manage ND. More density on the top strip and less density on the bottom strip means higher differential of stops between them. You'd pick your stocks in daylight or tungsten as a group with subgroups of density + grain size (ASA) for stop differential.
  16. Let Tiffen make the thingie and you could use it as a lens filter. If it were on a spinner ring like an ordinary polarizer the AC would make sure it oriented right and tape it down. That way, the normal diffusion that occurs through the lens would spread the light out enough to fill-in all those tiny platelet sized holes from the thingie that manifest on each strip of film with no more effect on the resolution than normally occurs with that lens.
  17. This one popped up quick. Instead of an anti-halation coating on the top strip, what about a blue filter layer? That restores the color balance to the second strip and dodges the chunkiness of anti-halation coating.
  18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redscale http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=39645 I thought we were all groovy with shooting through color stock if it didn't have anti-halation coating. The bottom strip needs NDing anyway. How much would the top strip stop it down? I could go for anything between 6 and 11 stops. EDIT: or is it the blue layer thing on the top strip?
  19. Dang. I goofed the film's thickness. Imagine each strip as twice as thick. Oh, and the mirror angles aren't right either.
  20. Hey! What about polarizing the film's grains? Split the light by angle, stretch one of them for FFD. Then, the top strip of film (vertical angle grains) will catch its light and the bottom strip (horizontal angle grains) will catch its light. All I'd have to do is snap the "thingie" into my Mitchell and it's all Rock n' Roll.
  21. I'm piling dumb ideas on dumb ideas, here. All I can come up with for the FFD problem is some kind of mixed polarizer/micro mirror kind of thingie to both stretch and parse the light beam. It's these "thingies" that usually make the whole idea come crashing down.
  22. I haven't thought it out yet. But, would there be any way to use wavelengths and wave angles of light through polarization so that separated images fell at the appropriate FFD and image parsing when the bi-pack is running with both emulsions facing forward? I guess we're back to coating washing and adding a polarizing coating to both surfaces of the film. I hope no one at Kodak is reading this thread.
  23. This is cool, Jim. I came up with the exact same numbers trying to solve the problem through hardware with a Mitchell, variable speed, camera motor. I failed the approach because I couldn't find a way to read rotations at 23.976 resolution. I've copy and pasted your code for safe keeping. Thank you for permission to use it.
  24. I passed on a chance to buy a printer's camera for $125.00. It was about three times a big as my 26" TV. If I had bought it, it would be just a matter of time until I could shoot a movie with it, if those guys would just come out with that 20" x 24", 10,560 MP sensor they promised.
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