Scott Cohen

Tom's suggestion for you to consider Super 8mm is VERY good advice. It seems like you are just learning the film thing... Super 8mm is a good idea. If you put Vision2 200T in a Super 8mm camera you can fool a lot of people into thinking they are looking at 16mm. In the snow, your 85 filter would knock this film down to 125 speed. You would have high f-stops making your depth of field large. You would have a VERY LARGE margin of error when focusing. Plus you just pop a cartridge out, then pop another in. Reloads in seconds. SC

This is really.... really sad. We live in a seriously f*cked up world. SC

I hope so too... Totally rip from a dead guy who was THE pioneer of experimental. Get NETFLIX and have them deliver to your door the Brakhage series. Watch DOG STAR MAN... and all his other films too. Matt Stone and Trey Parker studied under Brakhage. Kubrick admired Brakhage. It is rumored he approached him to do the 2001 dream sequence. How the heck did your fellow student run it through the projector. It would have caught on the gate and most likely cause some serious projector distress. When Brakhage did Mothlight. He taped the wings to clear film and then ran a print from it. He never ran the original through for projection... SC

It is not better. It is newer. You may get a cleaner camera that has been used less. I have had both "versions" and I haven't noticed a measurable difference. Actually, the more time your K3 racks up, the quieter it runs and the easier it is to wind. Of course you want to keep it clean. I have a minty older K3 that runs quieter than my newer version. This kinda is like what happens to engines as they break in... At 60,000 miles of normal operation your cars engine will put out more horsepower than it did right out of the factory. Right out of the factory it will be tight. After some normal wear and internal friction will reduce and it will start to feel it oats. As your K3 gets older it is always a good idea to time a run of 10 feet through the camera and see if the camera speed selector is correct at 24fps or if you need to dab some paint on your speed setting if it has changed. 10 feet of film should run by in 16.7 seconds at 24 frames per second. Using a normal stop watch, you can time this pretty well. No need for a strobe light or anything fancy. SC

You DO NOT want a Scoopic for shooting in the cold and the snow. For $300 get the K3. No batteries required. Practice loading it before going out. 95 percent of ALL registration problems are due to improper loading. Properly loaded, the K3 will beat anything in the $300 category. SC

Thanks. I'll wait till the last moment and try to snag it. SC

Dennis, Get a REDLAKE Locam II. It takes 100, 200 and 400foot 16mm daylight spools and it has a pin registered movement! Speeds are 2 to 500fps. It is a c-mount camera so you can use an Angenieux or Pan Cinor with a dogleg viewfinder. Some crazy person has one on ebay for over $1500.00 but I have seen working units go for as little as $200-300. SC

Would I be better off going with a M42 mount K-3? I heard the 10-100mm Kinor lens was very, very good. But I have heard good things about M42 lenses. Here is a Super 16 K3 on ebay I'm thinking about bidding on: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=320066315284 I guess the seller has sold a few. I contacted a previous buyer who bought one and loves it and says I should go with the M42 mount if I want to shoot Super 16. Does the Kinor 10-100mm cover Super 16mm? Thanks. SC

Can you use a Kinor 10-100mm zoom on a Krasnogorsk K-3 16mm that has the bayonet mount? Is the bayonet mount the same? Thanks. SC