samboxall

thanks for the replies. good points. its true, a minute is much longer than you might expect. however some of the work i do would be installation based. perhaps filming one spot for 30 minutes rather than scripted sequential footage. there are of course ways round it with editing like you said. for the moment im going to try out an 8mm camera - 3 minutes should be all i need for my most recent project. besides, i don't really have time to experiment with 16mm as im hopefully shooting in china in a couple of weeks and the simplicity/portability of 8 is probably more suitable for this. i will come back to it a little later --- depending on the results. but thanks for taking the time to reply. p.s my 'real name' is sam boxall. just put a space in my user name and you've got it. sorry to confuse you.

I want to start using 8mm or 16mm within my work. However, the idea of only being able to film for 3 of 4 minutes might cause some problems as i enjoy long slow films/scenes. (example: films by Zhang Ke Jia - made xiao wu, unknown pleasures, platform etc.) Can anyone offer me any advice on the best way around this, or recommendations for a camera with a reasonable film capacity. Thanks.