Lisa Davidson

Hi, Brian, Thank you; that's amazing! If I understand this, you printed the original negative onto Fine Grain Duplicating, which gave you another negative, and then you made prints from that? Sorry, that's not what you said, but I'm wondering about generation loss; isn't that an extra step? I don't really know much about this . . . . The original was a neg, then you made a pos, and then a neg, and then the release prints were positives from that? And it still looks great.

Does anybody know what film stock Knife in the Water was shot on? It looks like Tri-X, but I can't really tell.

OK, thanks, what I guess I'll do is get the screw-mount to M adapter from Adorama, and have SKGrimes machine a C-mount to screw-mount thing. Plumbing, you know.

***** OK, thank you.

********* Hi Bernhard and Alfredo, You're probably right that it doesn't exist, but this is the thing. I have a Questar telescope, which has adapters so that it can behave like a C-mount lens. I want to take Super-8 through it. Apparently when you add length to the adapters, add adapters, add extension tubes, etc., it does not make the telescope impossible to focus but just increases the magnification. The telescope has a long screw that acts like a focusing rod. I've attached a 35mm still camera to it with its adapters, and that worked (well, the aperture priority "thought patterns" didn't, but at least I got a focused image). All I really would like to do is match the magnification it already gives to the eye, but if I can't I suppose it will be interesting anyway. Super-8 Cinemascope!!! I can't believe it. How much did these things cost? It looks fantastic. Thank you both. Lisa I'm sorry, I don't know if I sent this already. Alfredo, my camera will be a Leicina Special, which has Leica M mount. I can't send a picture because I don't have the camera yet. But you can visualize it, I guess. Thanks, Lisa

Hi, Maybe the Leicina Special users out there could tell me where I could get an adapter to use C-mount lenses on the Leicina body. Thank you. Lisa Davidson

Do you have $3700 to spend on a Zeiss Ikon 15mm M mount for your super 8 "long" lens? And even if you do, do you want to? If you're looking to use a wide variety of practical normal and wide lenses in super 8, it's pretty hard to argue against a C mount. You can get them in everything from a 3mm to 100mm plus in a wide variety of quality levels. It's too bad there is not a C mount book out there with some reasonably objective testing and practical application advice. One is really needed. ******** Hi, My question is, where can I get an adapter to go between a C-mount lens and a Leicina Special? I can't find one anywhere. Thanks, Lisa ********

Hi -- Can anyone tell me the name of this part, or if it exists in small format? I want to shoot Super-8 through a Questar telescope, and the adapter that Questar makes will not hold anything more than 12 ounces in weight (this seems hard to believe, because it's a camera adapter after all, but that's what their manual says). So, I think there must be a tripod head with two sockets and some "universal"-type sliding brackets or something, to allow one to mount these two things together. I don't need a super heavy-duty head that would support bigger cameras. The camera is only a few pounds. Thank you for your help. Lisa

I'm sorry, but I don't know how to start a new topic. My question is: I found a Nagra III for sale at a very decent price. I was interested in using it to give tape compression to already recorded digital tracks on an ADAT. I thought I could take the left track only of the ADAT output, run it into the Nagra at 15 ips, set the input level high enough to get the compression that sounds "right," and simultaneously record it again using "monitor from playback head" into the next blank track of the ADAT. Then I would start over and do the same with the right track, saving it into the next blank track of the ADAT. What I want to know: are the small time variations of the Nagra going to be noticeable and the left and right tracks will diverge, or does the ADAT clock control everything? Because the Nagra is playing back through the reproduce head at the same time that it is recording, so the ADAT should be running everything. Or am I missing something here? I mean, maybe I ought to get a Nagra 4S and not a mono one, but I thought it would be better to have full-track quarter-inch tape than half-track. Has anyone done this? Thank you, Lisa