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I have pvt mailed and public posted I would love to have the 35 mm film for my Arri BL 4s contact me pvt or public please GWPB

I have worked 3 & 4 perf mixed before. Shoot a framing leader for each and keep rolls seperate. Make sure the reports are correct and the rolls are labeled.

I dont want to rain on your parade but, if the job is as big as you seem to believe, it may be the better stratagy to bow out. Why? Well, going into a high stress job with a pro crew and not being sure of yourself could be a recipe for disaster. If you slip up, are slower than the DP or Production wants or cant answer a 2nd or loaders queery you could let yourself in for big trouble. Certainly with whatever company / producer or DP who hired you will never ask you to work again. With them your reputation would be sealed and written in stone as the one who could not handle it. Make sure you know the camera inside and out can load with competence and show no nerves to anyone. Like lions at a hunt, crew members always seem to be able to tell if someone is nervous. And like another poster said, if you are going to be involved with tricky focus pulls and have not done them before, it would be best if some other situation came up that precluded you from working that particular shoot (until you KNOW you can deal with it) That said GOOD LUCK. The first first when it comes off, is a moment you will never forget and will point to as a milestone in your personal development in this very frustrating and very rewarding career. All the best with a very hard decision. GWPB

I recently sold an ARRI III with mags to Jim Higgins of JH Films in CA. His #'s are 661 264 0004 and 661 916 5521 Good luck GWPB

The BL 4s and the Super America are both rated at 20 db the GII is rated at 24 db this is according to the American Cinematographer manual. GWPB

It depends on the front element also guys. The Cooke MK III (a very sweet lens that matches the S4's perfectly) front element is SIX inches across. Therefore a 6x6 matte box is necessary.

Thanks for the reply any other besides coral? Coral is probably the only thing I have lots of at the moment. I would like most any LB 80, 81, 82 & most 85's or cc G's and M's Best, GWPB

Thanks, but why wouldnt it just be called Academy to end confusion? GWPB

This is about ground glasses but a little off topic. I just had a GG sent to me by Arri. It was the wrong one! It is a 185 / 137. Now, I have known that 137 was out there but in all my years I have never used one or knew what I would want one for. After going through all my CSC manuals, I still cant find what reason it has to exist. All I get is the acnowlegment that it exists. I want to know WHY. And why on my 185 GG. It is the same width and is higher and lower / equally top and bottom. GWPB

I am looking to buy 48 mm drop ins and 4 x 4 cc and lb filters in good condition. Thanks, GWPB

Axel Broda he is in CA. CSC, better known as ARRI use him when the new younger techs cant fix the camera. He is a legend around NFL ( he converted all their 16mm cams. to super 16 ) and ARRi. his # is 661 821 6725. GWPB

Whoops, quite right I had the "soft" reputation statement reversed. GWPB

That is often too personal a question to ask in a forum. I will, with my own personal bias, try to be a little less bias than I am about these two pieces of glass. The Ang. is a little softer by reputation in the long end and will have a tendancy to ramp the stop. The Cooke is by rep. a little softer in the short end but closer to the MK III performance except for the dust sealing upgrades, stop and larger front element. The Ang. is now 3 generations out of mfg. The Cooke is one gen. out from current mfg. The Ang. is reputed to be "cooler" the Cooke "warmer" almost as good a fit with the S4 primes as the MK III. Hope my bias didnt show up too much. Also, the Cooke went out of popularity as much for its weight as the "look" when the HR Ang. came out, it was much lighter. Now, with the new Optimo the weight disparity seems to be a little more even and some are coming back to the Cooke. But, the new Optimo is a sharp lens with filters that try to match the warmth of the Cooke primes when it is used with them. These are not all the differences but it covers , I hope the major ones. GWPB .

I am looking for 5 x 6 filters and old 6 x 6 marginally damaged filters that can be cut down to fit a 5 x6 hanger slot. GWPB

Yes, quite right David. However, I am also making the assumption anyone playing around with 35mm has gone and hired a real DP that would not make such a mistake. GWPB

The same way it would if you wound up shooting 1, 3 perf and 1, 4 perf as in episodics. Shoot a framing leader and there is no worriy about the A and B camera setup difference. GWPB

Mitch and Phil are correct. One other thing to consider. Every time someone like a producer says "post" they should say "money" It is less costly to do as much in camera as you can. I just finished a 24p shoot and they are now wallowing in "no money land post". I only Operated on the movie (a two cam. shoot) and heard "we will do it in post" so many times that I knew before we finished that unless we got our pay checks before the post sessions, we were screwed for our last weeks pay. Well, I just heard that it is so expensive they may not be able to finish unless more "POST" is available. Remember, I said use the word post and money as interchangable. Thank God we all got paid right away. GWPB

The lenses I have, which are conversions, behave normally until you reach the macro end. At that point, the more "macro" you get the further the barrel rotates. Like I said before, depth of field questions are for another day. Really though, I have not ever asked for a focus pull at 2" to 2 1/4". It would be pure misery for the 1st AC as rhe closer you get the further the pull. GWPB

you should watch yourself with that kind of talk! If someone in your opinion is "not a nice person" there are other ways to say it without putting yourself on the block for a future lawsuit. After all a guy who makes people do what has allegedly been said to do, would not think twice about being an ass and serving "papers" for defamation and or slander. Your best bet at this point is to get back on this forum and edit or remove your post. GWPB

Not to mention it is not overly healthy for the camera mechanism to run bare. After talkiing to some camera techs about cold weather techniques even they said use a rental if thats what you are doing to "warm" or loosen the movement before shooting in cold climates. It is akin to dry firing a weapon without a shell to keep the firing pin from crystalizing. The movement is happier with film in it. GWPB

I have some Zeiss lenses that have been converted to Macros they can do everything they could before and close focus. If the conversion is done properly there are no worries. However there are only a handfull of lens techs I would let near a lens for the conversion process as it is not quite a easy/simple as it sounds.. GWPB

OK just because the word AINT is in some dictionaries is no reason to use it! Just because Chroisel is trying to change the accepted definition (accepted in the USA) is no reason to use it. The larger picture is, our profession has set standards and definitions and meanings for certain pieces of equipment. The fact that a piece of equipment is defined (translated) from a cataloge as being something else is no reason to start using it here. The precision with which we work and the definitions we use are for clairity and over the last 100 years or so have come to be rather specific. Thats how doctors from one side of the country can speak to the other side with clairity. The same holds true for us DP's, Assistants,, Loaders, Rental Houses we comunicate with etc. So after having been doing this for over28 years I cant think of one American rental house or asst. I have worked with that in actuality calls a French Flag an Eyebrow or the other way around. Thats why they have two different names. GWPB

Sorry guys but a French flag has nothing to do with a matte box the Eyebrow or Menardis is whats attached to a Mattebox. The French flag is held by an independant arm and is very maneuverable around the front and sides of the box eyebrow, manardis or plane lens. GWPB

Flange depth is not there for checking lens clearence, it is there for focal plane precision. It lets you know that with a properly mounted lens, the place where the film plane is, will be exactly where the lens is focusing the image so the picture is sharp and crisp. If we have done our jobs and set up the shot properly it will be in focus. Now, it just so happens that as a sideline, sometimes, if we measure a lens at the rear (from the mount point to its own end point) we can tell it will have a problem with length. Why sometimes ? Easy, because not all lenses we mount will have the plane of focus properly set and centered on the focal plane even though they clear the mirror. GWPB

He didnt make a sound, all the antics came from the Director and DP. It was a 2 cam. shoot and the cameras were a bear to match and back focus on the "A" cam was constantly going out. The follow focus markings may as well not have been written on the wheel from shot to shot. The Angineux lenses also were just a little off in their zoom range for the DP and Director both of which would have prefered about 15 mm longer reach. GWPB