Chris Keth

This is a great opportunity to learn to trust your meter and your eyes. Go with it and don't think about it too much.

That's something you would have to make. Photograph a macbeth chart with the film you want to emulate and then take a frame of the exact same thin with your DSLR. Use photoshop or lightroom to make the DSLR frame look like the film frame and save those adjustments as a preset.

You don't see any value in rental companies keeping in business and the "rank and file" workers keeping fairly steady jobs?

I bought a lot of filters and small bits half to get the case. Now I'm selling the stuff that was inside. In Los Angeles. Shipping will be at roughly actual cost. Chrosziel 12" whip - $125 Chrosziel speed crank - $70 Tiffen 82mm screw-in polarizer - $50 Schneider 4x5.65 tru-pol - $170 Schneider 4x5.65 soft edge ND0.3 horizontal grad - $200 Schneider 4x5.65 soft edge ND0.6 horizontal grad - $200 Formatt horizontal sunset 2 filter - $135 E-mail if interested. Chris

I take it the sight is a heavy red filter?

With the sight, can you see the dot in full sun?

No worries about causing cancer. The other reason is that a mickey will, generally speaking, probably not directly light people. If they light people, it will usually be through diffusion or from far away as a mock streetlamp or something like that.

After seeing The King's Speech, the last of the nominees I hadn't yet seen, I hope it will win in the cinematography category. I also think Colin Firth should win for best actor. He was really wonderful.

The King's Speech. Period films always seem to be considered in a higher echelon than anything else at the oscars.

High contrast won't get you a sharper image. The best way to help out a sub-optimal lens is to stop it down to a 4 or more.

Your eyes will render a very small circle as a single point in your mind. The circle of confusion is the measured size of the largest circle on film that will trick your eyes into being rendered as a single point by your brain on the finished viewing format.

I really don't see why these threads are always stated using the word "versus." Painters don't talk about "oils vs. gauche" or "pencil vs. crayon." Why are we still comparing tools that have different attributes, looks, and uses?

Just light the scene. I don't see why it's so hard to grasp that movies need to be lit to look good in 99.99% of locations. If you can't light it to a decent stop, I hope you're smart enough to spend the money to hire a good focus puller. He/she may be able to give you enough of it sharp to cut the scene.

The foam of the lens cases.

By the way, if you're strapped for time heading inside (and when aren't you) take the lenscaps off the lenses and set them on top of the foam. They'll warm up faster. Obviously do this well out of the way of foot traffic, ladders, etc.

Yeah, Tom. Detroit is a pretty great primer on working in winter weather. A blow dryer can speed things up if you need it. We've found that if we bring the bodies and lenses inside first, they're warmed up by the time we do our other work like moving popups, and enough lighting is done for people to want a look at the scene. I don't think we've even pulled out the blow dryer, though we do carry one.

I wouldn't use any kind of anti-fog on a lens. Viewfinder maybe, but never a lens. The way to get a lens not to fog is to give it the time to acclimate to the temperature. Fog only happens when cold glass hits warm, comparatively humid air. When you move inside, get the body and lenses in ASAP, open the lens cases so they're exposed to the air. It doesn't really take all that long. By the time the scene is rehearsed and marked, they should just about be there.

American Cinematographer is the only publication I know of that has that kind of thing in every issue.

Very easy to do. You just solder an 1/8" mono jack in line with the wire that feeds the earpiece driver. Sleeve conductor of the headphone jack goes to the bare shield in the walkie cable and the top of the headphone jack goes to the inner shielded wire in the walkie cable. Personally, I think it's best to solder a female 1/8" mono jack into the walkie cable. This lets you replace the headphone cable easily (any old 1/8" male-to-1/8" male auxiliary cable). It will go bad fairly quickly if it's going to your phone in your pocket like mine.

Read up on the scheimpflug principal. It describes the optics involved when the planes of the film and of focus aren't parallel.

I've also seen reels that have a lower third that contains the title of the film, the director, and the acquisition format kind of music video style.

I should have explained more. If I saw a reel titled "RED Reel" among 50 others, I would probably skip it and not even see any of your work. You do have a lot of nice things in there, nobody has to know what format you used to capture those images. You're selling your eyes and your expertise, not a trendy format.

Ah! You are right! I must have forgotten since I set that all in checkout and never touch it again.

He does have a point, even though it was poorly worded. Everyone should be credited properly.

Foolish, IMO. Better to show expertise lighting, camera blocking, and telling a story than as a technical operator of one camera.