ioannis belimpasakis

An additional thing I did not mention is that the light in Crete at 1.00pm is so strong that there are almost no shadows. it is bleaching everything out and that is why i want to shoot it there. bleached, sick colors :ph34r: .

Thanks for all the replies, quite enlightening. I think an Eclair 2 is the best option. but could i use a canon scoopic as camera 2? is the look of an angenieux 12-120 very different from that of the canon lens? I am thinking to do the external shoots with the scoopic on a car mount and use the eclair for the shoots in the car. Anyway, many things have to be solved at that very moment, i guess. as far as it concerns the film stock i think i go down the slow stuff (100?). But what if i use 500t with ND6 filters? how much does the filter affect the outcome? I am also thinking about two different looks for the shoots inside and outside the car (???). Is it going to look peculiar-interesting or...? Anyway I like to work with mistakes. And I prefer more to try to correct them but any thoughts are always valuable. Thanks everybody for the help. :rolleyes:

Is there any way to put a scoopic on a tripod? It looks like there is no tread :huh: thanks

thanks for your input. I dropped an eye on the scoopic, it looks lovely....but i do not know how much i could rely on it. Could somebody tell me how loud is it? is it like a bolex or louder? And another thing I couldn't find on the internet: Is if there is any remote control for this camera?

Hello everybody. I am trying to organize a film shooting in August, short film. It is a kind of road movie. The script is not done yet (very breifly a couple going somewhere, getting lost, fighting, drama but a bit surreal). I would like to keep it open to many changes and i will try to improvise while shooting the film as much as i can. it is going to happen in Greece, in Crete in the middle of the day (Very hot!!!). The main idea is that it is that the shooting will always happen on the way and in the car, mainly. I want to include many shoots from the back of the car. but I was thinking what kind of camera and lens should i use, so that I could come close to the subjects without having focusing problems. I was thinking for a beaulieu R16 but I have heard that it is quite noisy. Noisy but small though. The other advantage of the beaulieu is that is quite light to go on a car mount for shoots from the outside of the car. the disadvantages are that is not sound sync but i do not really mind a lot . What are the questions now?: 1)Is there an alternative (better) camera for these kind of shooting? I have found a Arri srII but it is too heavy for what i am looking for, practically and conceptually. I like to work with cameras that make me feel good as i used to be a super 8 guy. 2) what kind of wide lens should use for the scenes at the back of the car? 10mm? will i have a great distortion? 3) is there any way to quite down a bolex or beaulieu during the shooting? Like putting cloths or blankets around the camera body? I know it sounds silly but i like to be primitive with these things sometimes. The good thing is that the car is old and noisy as well. 4) should i go down to fuji 250D or kodak 200t (middle of the day and summer-very bright)? please note that i am not i filmmaker but I am an artist and i love film in general. Please help as i do not want to go down to digital. I do whatever i can not to change my mind. and i am about to get in great expenses by inviting people to Crete to help, finding a flat and food for them... Sorry for all these questions but please help me at even one them. Any help would be very much appreciated. thanks ioannis

That makes a grand total of 1 and 2/3 stops over what my light meter tells me to shoot. Does that sound reasonable, or am I just totally missing something? That is a very very good point, indeed :unsure: i also have a feeling that according to the reflectance of the source the light loss varies. is that possible? i have tried my canon 814 xls and my sekonic lightmeter on a grey card and can not make a point about the amount of lightloss (as it varies between 2/3 - 1+1/3 f-stop). Does anybody have an answer guys?

i have also encountered many similar problems recently <_< . At the beginning I thought it was my two cameras (bauer 715 and nizo 800). but now i realise that this could be a general problem. where did you buy the films from?