Marty Hamrick

What was this used for?http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4690&item=7521388378&rd=1 I usually recognize old sync equipment,but this one escapes me.

I worked on a spot for a support group for people who suffer obsessive compulsive disorders like overeating.The fridge shot was motivated and justified,a woman opens the fridge and we see her look of guilt as she contemplates the food she's about to eat.Since we need to see her face,how else would you recommend that shot to have been done?

The success of tellying a story on the screen is a result of the collaborative efforts of all professionals,directors,actors,cinematographers,editors,etc.,so shots DO make the story IF all the other elements are coming into play as well.The annoying cliche comes from the over use of one particular thing,be it a shot in a movie,a song or a line of dialogue.The good part of that is that we can have fun with it.Movies like Airplane with the lampooning of the bad rear projection shots and the Scary Movie series with satired shots from every horror movie(although I question whether or not the whole target demographic got the lampooning of the dolly shots from the 1973 classic,Legend of Hell House). A "good looking movie" to me is one that draws me into the story where I feel for the characters in the story.Whether it has a hackneyed cliched shot in it is only unworkable if it detracts from that experience.Its not something that you can singly dissect and point to,but you know it when you see it.

Was this a remake of a film called "The Man Who Was Hunting Himself?"

Is this the shot where the camera dollis one direction while zooming the opposite?Yeah,that's gotten old.

Check this out http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...7515678570&rd=1 I've never seen an Akely with a gun stock,is this guy's discription accurate?Does anyone know anything about this?

Is this a reversal,negative or does it come in both?What speeds?What's it comparable too?

I've used both cameras extensively.You can seriously get burned with a bad viewfinder on a 16A.I would steer clear of that one.Especially if it had been a TV news camera as it would've beaten to hell by several different news shooters and reconditioned a few times.The Eclair is a much nicer package.Quick change mags,spinning mirror shutter,orientable finder,yes worth the extra money.The Eclair would've had likely had fewer owners and less abuse as this is more of a documentary,commercial type camera.Also an Eclair NPR can be easily converted to super 16.This is important.If you shoot 16mm these days HD release is almost a certainty.

Will Ektachrome 64 be available in 16mm and standard 8mm?How about DS8?

Gee,what's Paul Simon going to sing about now?So we have Ektachrome 64 now.What is this going to mean for the auto cameras that are cart keyed for ASA 40?My Bolex 160 Macrozoom is auto iris only (it has iris lock,but it's still cart keyed),now 64 isn't that much faster than 40,but there's still a difference.I'm assuming you guys at Kodak new that and so the latitude should be good enough to handle it.OK? I remember back in the day,there used to be an Ektachrome 40 in super 8.I don't remember it lasting that long.I'm anxious to try this stuff.

Especially in the last ten or fifteen years since video cameras have added the feature.It looks cool for certain scenes,Gladiator had some nice high speed shutter shots,I can't imagine another way to do it.It doesn't look "real",but what you're going for is a "push yourself to the envelope's edge feel".When the adreneline rush makes everything seem hyper real.If you're gonna use it be sparing.

Yes wind changes at the last minute are scary.I've had it happen on me with fire coming from two directions and almost been trapped in between two fire lines.Will you be jumping in with the smokejumpers or shooting from another vantage point?

I've used the K-3 once and was happy with the results.Still,I don't trust Russian technology unless it's been thoroughly gone through and overhauled.For the money with the same features I would go with a Bolex Rex,but that's just me.I do like the spinning mirror shutter though.

Just out of curiosity,what kind of project is this?I've actually seen this done in a student film once.It was an interesting effect.

Interesting look to this film.A lot of ruddiness in the flesh tones,almost an Ektachrome look,which would fit with the time period.The home movie sequences,where the character is watching a super 8 film with a projector and stops and reverses the film were particularly well done (digital EFX of some kind?).The print I ran showed up particularly well on the drive in screen which is unusual for a dark horror movie.Anyone have the skinny on this movie?

I've seen this movie several times now having just ran it at the theater I work part time in as projectionist.I'm intrigued by the technology and at the same time a big fan of the old film noir style.It's my understanding this was shot entirely on HD and on green screen.It was an amazing look,yet I did notice a lack of texture and grain which was a trademark of the old film noir style.

Thanks John, I posted this also on 8mm filmshooting and I was told it was 200T EXR 7293,which was later replaced with Vision 200T.I'm told the Widescreen Centre sold it to banks in Japan,hence the name "surviellance film".

I've seen this stock on ebay.Is it Vision 200T?It's a color negative stock ASA 200.Anyone ever use it?

There is a music video,it was advertized in one of Kodak's old ads for film stocks in AC that utilised an iris pull of something like 8 stops in a single shot.I can't remember who the band was.

In my line of work (TV news), riding the iris on a continually changing lighting situation is normal.Yet I have now seen a few movies and one doc where it was obvious the iris was ridden to keep up with a changing lighting situation and a few others where the scene just periodically went a little dark or hot.I noticed it particularly in a PBS doc I saw about the Ancient Egyptians where during an interview,the clouds were coming and going and there was one spot where the iris change during the shot had to be at least 5 stops.Then I was watching Fever Pitch last night I noticed a steadicam (eh might have been a dolly shot) where the actors walked toward a brightly lit sky after coming from a darker BG,I noticed the BG and DoF change with the iris changes.Now when do you guys determine when to ride the iris and when to just let some things go hot or dark?

First off the synchro pilot attachment that goes on the side of the camera does NOT control the speed.It merely sends a signal to a tape recorder,a 50 or 60 Hz tone that is a speed refference.This is recorded on a channel of the tape not being used by audio.Later when resolving to mag fullcoat,the speed refference is used to speed up and slow down the recorder in the transfer process.It should make no difference whatsoever when shooting cut aways and such that don't require long running perfect sync.The Beaulieu I had ,had a switch that would go from variable (2 to 64 fps) and sync (24-25 fps)If set on 24-25 and you adjust for whichever at the head of a take,it shouldn't fluctuate much as this setting utilizes a governor type motor.

I conformed my own negative for about five years.I'm not counting the news film I shot and cut or any other projects where the original was cut and projected.My first job out of high scholl was negative cutter in a 16mm lab.When I started doing freelance projects,I already had experience cutting other people's neg and I access to cutting tables.I was already comfortable with it.When the lab bellied up,my business partner and I built a clean cutting table with a continous airflow and dust guard systems and I continued to cut my own and a select few side client's neg.I stopped around 1984 as most of the projects we were doing by then were video.

You might want to consider double super 8.Basically they are 16mm cameras converted to super 8 specs.The film is 16mm wide but the perfs are S8.You shoot 100 feet of film,flip the roll over and shoot the other half and after processing,the roll is slit and you have 200 feet of super 8 film.The advantages are :Longer film runs,you're not limited to the 50 ft cart,Better quality cameras since these are basically converted 16mm cameras,rock steady images.These cameras have pressure plates that hold the film stationary in the gate,whereas cart super 8 film uses a plastic pressure plate in the film cartridge which can in no way be as steady.I was skeptical about that at first,didn't think that made too much of a difference until I ran a film transfer house.We transferred thousands of feet of the old regular 8mm film and super 8 film.The majority of the stuff was people's amateur home movies,but the older regular 8 films were sharper and steadier by far, than the newer super 8 films.The steadiness of the gate will come in handy for you shooting surfing,since you will probably want to overcrank for slow motion.Many of these DS 8 cameras have higher speeds like 64 frames per second.There is a DS8 e group I'm on that exchanges alot of information about cameras and stock ordering.I think K 40 and Vision 200 can be bulk ordered.There are several good DS 8 cameras that are converted 16mm.The Canon Scoopic,the Bolex DS8,which is a converted Rex ,and the Pathe and a rather odd hybrid camera the Elmo Trifilmatic.

Back in 1981,I was hired to shoot a gig that would've been a video shoot just a couple of years later.We had 3 Auricons all running with optical sound.The client wanted a 16mm film of the event we were shooting with an optical track.We used Tri X reversal.

I see on the Widescreen Centre's website in the UK that one light super 8 prints are available from super 8 Vision 2 100T and 500T originals.Anyone have any experience with this?