Geoff Howell

much better than expected, although it peaked way too early. One minor gripe: some of the footage and graphics from the opening film looked really really cheap and 'corporate video'esque', and what was that horrible under-cranked effect they had on the queens pet corgis in James Bond bit?

Thanks for the link, it's good to know i-lab is still doing their thing! It'll be interesting to see to what extent they will be able to support super8. I sat in on a big super8 archive telecine there a few years ago; the operator said they needed to rent a super8 gate at great expense as the lab didn't own one themselves. P.s As crap as Stanly's can no doubt be I must admit I'm quite fond of their weird '1970's Post Office' decor :lol:

Bloody hell! I had no idea Deluxe Soho (or whatever they were calling themselves) had gone! Stanly Productions has some kind of mail away service, they'll do 100ft of 16mm for £30 with no minimum orders, I can't remember where they were sending it to; the guy in the shop said something about a lab Surbiton if that rings any bells. Also, for super8 There's that guy developing color reversal film in Birmingham who sporadically posts on here. where's iRushes based? I can't find anything about them on Google

back in 2002/2003 the UK Pound was king of the hill and beating the living crap out of the US Dollar, so yes, Pro8's prices were very very cheap. I can't remember exactly what I was paying for 50ft (I'll try to dig out some receipts) but it was significantly less than the Widescreen centers Andec service. Also trying to get color reversal film processed in the UK (even as long as ten years ago) is/was very very difficult. I'm in no way saying Pro8 doesn't have it's problems, but, in the summer of 2003 I was able to shoot thousands of feet with very little worry as to how much it was going to cost to process largely due the service they were offering. P.S the 4/5 day 'London to LA and back' turnaround didn't cost anything extra, you would literally only pay for processing.

I can't speak for their telecine but I used them frequently for processing between 2002/2004 and thought they were great. At the time they had an office just off Charing Cross Road behind where the Astoria used to be. you could drop the film to them; they would send it to LA and it would be back in under 4/5 days which is pretty amazing considering it takes Andec over two weeks to get stuff back to the London. On top of this their prices were super cheap and they were always a pleasure to deal with.

They may have snapped it up just to get their hands on their patents....... precious precious patents!

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sounds like a job for After Effects

I think it was rendered with Vray, As far as what software to learn is concerned; if you plan on doing this as a career definitely go with Maya and Nuke, if doing 3D for a living is not your goal than I'd look at Cinema 4D Both Maya and Nuke's learning curves are horrendous, in comparison C4D is pretty easy to pick up, it has a great online community so there's plenty of tutorials and it has support for Vray.

with expensive ebay and craigslist purchases I always do a Google 'search by image', if you drag the image from the auction/advert into Google's search box it will tell you if the same image appears on any other websites.

although I'd normally be a the head of the line of people telling you to "just shoot real super8, it's not that expensive; bla bla bla" You might want to consider looking at To my eye it doesn't look 100% like actual film; but having said that the results look no worse than applying cine grunge style plugins to digital footage in post. Also you did mention wanting to use a small unobtrusive camera.

Did anyone see this on ebay? I've never seen one before and couldn't find much info about it on google, the seller says the camera could be swapped out for something with higher spec

Amazing! Almost as genius as this :D

try these guys Haghefilm Conservation B.V. P.O. Box 94764 1090 GT Amsterdam The Netherlands

My favorite thing about the sound (apart from the near perfect synk!) is that the character of the analogue tape really compliments the look of small format film! I find it really strange that so many people shooting super8 choose to pair it up with perfectly mastered high bit rate digital audio which seems completely at odds with the feel of the smaller formats.

NO! just no :angry:

Looks(and sounds)fantastic! How easy is it to load the Kodak film in to the single8 cartridge? I've always wanted to try this myself!

why not shoot a couple of rolls of 35mm stills film and put your project together like Chris Marker's La Jetee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzPi7-faGkw

someone posted these on Ikonoskop's website fairly recently, other than Thomas Bangalter's film it's the only stuff I've seen that couldn't be described as 'test footage'

That's a really interesting clip, from what I can tell the layer of rain in the foreground (on the shots where everything slows right down)seems to have been generated elsewhere and composited on top. It looks really nice and seamless and provides a simple work-around for something that Twixtor normally has problems with. Back on topic; Twixtor seems to give me considerably better results than After Effects built in frame blending. The later seems to take an awful lot of tweaking to get passable results where as Twixtor is pretty simple to use and dose a fairly decent job (as long your being realistic about what you can achieve with it)

Do you mean Freddy Van de Putte and his AVIsynth scripts?

here's a nice clip of someone with a ZC1000 mounted on a steady-cam.

it's K40 according to this

About five or six years ago I bought a box full of random 8mm footage from ebay. Apparently it came from the estate of an ex cameraman from National Geographic; this as it turns out was probably bullshit as the footage it's self seemed very ammeter to my eye. Anyway, long story short all the footage was useless apart from one reel where the guy had filmed the fatal launch of the Challenger shuttle! Getty Images offered to add the footage to their collection but wanted me to pay for a very high end very expensive telecine <_<

Just do it! To a degree it's only as complicated/expensive as you choose to make it. If you don't need an expensive camera then just get one of the many perfectly useable models that can be bought for peanuts. If you don't need an expensive high resolution telecine than just get your hands on an old projector and improvise! As it stands I can go out and buy film with processing for under £25, which considering how niche this format has become, sounds perfectly reasonable to me!