Emil Soderman

Have you seen your footage in a Super 8 projector?

Or only the telecine? Just thinking it might be a problem in the telecine, obviously from over compensating for the dark results of the film,

to me the picture looks like its shot at night with only street lights illuminating the scene. I've underexposed E64 severely (In areas but always with a point somewhere close or at correct exposure) but the dark areas always come out.. just that, dark. Not with such a blue weird overcast, looks very much video to me.

So how does it look run through a projector?

Hello everyone!

Just recently finished a little Super8 Project where we shot a small, i dont want to call it documentary, but a few minutes of film from the Roskilde Festival in Denmark.

Shot with a Elmo Super106 on E64T and transferred to HD ProRess format.

Just thought id post a link here to Vimeo for all you Super8 junkies, and maybe someone would be kind enough to give some feedback aswell, would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.vimeo.com/6289168

Enjoy!

Hello

I was wondering if someone here could help me identify an artefact problem I got using a Panasonic HPX 500 some time ago. In the picture attached you can see what I’m talking about, it’s the blue “ghosting” around the edges of objects, mostly in high contrast clearly, but if you zoom in on the pic you can see its really everywhere. It’s even on the guy with the snowboard and on the boards beneath him where the contrast really isn’t that high. Anyone got an idea what the problem is called and what causes it? The lamp in the background is a 1200 HMI lighting the Smoke.

I’ve managed to repair it quite well using the channel mixer in AE to remove two of the RGB channels on the problem area, and then correcting back the original colour to match the rest of the picture. Would be interesting to get a real explanation to why it occurs though.

Thanks allot!

Nice to hear that you liked the Super8 stuff!

I have nothing to do with the Koyanisqatsi stuff (Was my first thought aswell, beautiful film that is)

But i believe its Time Laps and Time exposure actually, which some Super8 cameras can do.

Some info here:

http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...showtopic=27499

http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...showtopic=27607

I was just reading up on the subject actually

Here's a link to the Super8 Group on Vimeo, should be enough for an evening of Super8 film watching

http://www.vimeo.com/groups/super8/videos

Make sure to see "De Jagade" now ;)

looked really nice, with a good mix of different filmstocks that i really thought added to whole experience!

The 50D looked really great i think!

Maybe i should roll some film through my 106, seems to be able to yield very good results

It was purely due too budget reason, not that we had any budget to speak of ;)

We also wrote a dissertation in cojunction with the project, and decied that basing the research on e64 was a good chioce awell

Thank you!

Thanks for those kind words Chris!

It was telecined here in Sweden by ?Uppsala Bildteknik? with a Flashscan machine .

No grading was done during telecine.

Just got a 4008 serviced, hope we got to use it soon!

I really liked this one actually!

Especially the car scenes wore nice, like the straight on headlight shot. Which stock was that?

All in I all I liked the look and pacing, yeah a little bit more light in the card player would be nice as stated above.

Planning anymore Super8 projects?

Thanks for your reply James

The cellar scene was very much Red heads if I remember correctly.

At least on the general + Soldiers there?s a redhead at ceiling level pointing down on them.

And some backlight from the practical work light behind them.

The doctors lighting is, i think a red head from camera right + a redhead or 300w for the shadow on the wall.

After that its pretty much just blasting the red head straight at him.

Or did we use a blonde instead of redheads on the doctor? I?m not sure, sorry.

Come to think of it, we might gave bounced some light from the ceiling as well.

My memory isn?t all that great I?m afraid.

Yeah I agree the muzzle flashes aren?t very good, limited time I guess.

10 year old on YouTube? Yeah maybe, haha.

The camera wasn?t serviced properly which might have added some to the instability.

Yeah you can stabilize it in post, but I wouldn?t want to lose that kind of resolution on something already of low res.

So we decided to roll with and claim it would add to the charm of Super8!

Yeah this was our first Super8 attempt. Get your 5008 out and shoot some, its allot of fun!

Cheers!

I like it, was very nice actually

Didn?t care much for the fade in/out in the beginning, especially on the picture of the singer.

Think it looked a bit cheap in some way

But it was remedied once you got past that, like the shots of the drummer and the guitarist

And setting the drum set on fire! Just loved it

I have been planning on giving abit longer replay to your great feedback Billy and Matthew, but seems i dont really have the time..

Anyhow, really appreciate your feeback and comments, very helpfull and inspiering, thanks allot!

Yeah probably US only

"This video is not available in your country."

ah, what a shame

Thanks for your reply serge, I agree that the tempo and pace is a bit of at times I can?t really specify exactly where, but I agree it?s a problem in general. The gun effects, yeah, especially the ricochets are somewhat off, but kind of flows whit the B-movie esthetics, but in a kind of 2008 way I guess.

And thank you Alexander as well, glad to hear you overall liked it! By strong colors do you mean the blue backlight? Something in the front lighting maybe? The gels used are 1/2 CTO, full CTO. 1/2 CTB + Full CTB, ND and Frost. The backlight was left at 5600k, some front light got CTB, and the Red light is Blondies through red garbage bags.

This thread haven?t seen much action lately so I thought id post this little video

http://www.jc-online.com/sisters/

It?s the intro video, where two models play around whit a nice Super8 Camera, actually it?s my Elmo Super 106 :lol: , to bad they didn?t use real Super8 film for the PoV of the camera in the video.

Hello

This is a short shot on Super8, Ektachrome 64T on a Beaulieu 5008MS.

This was shot in the end of 2007, I would love the get some critique and feedback on it please.

Enjoy, here's a link to Blip.tv

(I recommend you watching it in the original .mp4 format if you got the time to let it load)

FLV: http://blip.tv/file/770600?filename=Sacruf...DeJagade936.flv

MP4: http://blip.tv/file/770600?filename=Sacruf...DeJagade936.mp4

Thank you!

The lighting used is mainly 2x Blondies at 2kW and a 1200 ARRISUN for much of the backlight and such.

We also used 1 redhead kit and 2x 400w HMI.

Your right! The lens we used was the Schneider Optivaron 1,4 / 6 - 70 mm

The under-cranking was a big problem actually, was very unfortunate we didn't have a CLA'd camera

Yeah 7 rolls all in all, its possible but would be allot better whit 17 rolls! :)

All of it was synced in post, so no sound recordings what so ever on location, we used a few long nights in the studio for ADR.

Thanks allot for the positive feedback, really nice to hear!

Getting very eager to try some more Super8 filmmaking

Hello there!

Some of you might remember me asking allot of questions on these boards concerning Super8 filmmaking. Id like to thank you for all the great info and many tips and tricks! You might also remember my friend Simon and a few mail based interviews, thanks allot for all your answers!

Anyway this is what all your help resulted in, an 8 minute short shot on Ektachrome 64T, 7 rolls if I remember correctly. We used a Beaulieu 5008MS after discovering our 4008 was out of order. Unfortunately we didn?t have time to test shoot the 5008 and after getting it to digital we discovered the motor of the 5008 was pulling to slow resulting a around 19-21 Fps instead of 25. Well we had to sort that with slowmo in post, but all in all I?m very happy we made this movie.

So enjoy! here's a link to Blip.tv

(I recommend you watching it in the original .mp4 format if you got the time to let it load)

FLV: http://blip.tv/file/770600?filename=Sacruf...DeJagade936.flv

MP4: http://blip.tv/file/770600?filename=Sacruf...DeJagade936.mp4

Cheers!

Thanks allot all, ive got plenty of different combos to test out now.

Michael i wasnt even sure about the name of such lamps, so my "streetlights" search didint give me nearly as much info, thank you!

Thanks for your quick reply!

Sorry to confuse you but I just noticed that in the background of the first pic

there actually is the same kind of light like in pic nr3. Which i dont need to resemble.

Its only the main light in the first pic, sorry.

But hey greate tip anyway!

Concering you tips on the first pic, CTO + Bastard Amber sounds nice

But can you explain what "Straw" insted of CTO would be?

Thank you!

Hello all

I was wondering if anyone could please assist me whit a question I got.

We?re going to do a shoot under the lights you see in the first image.

The background will be HMI through Haze and in the foreground I want to keep the colure of the streetlights, for the foreground I got 2x 2K Blondies. I?m wondering if there are any gels that resemble that look? Or any other tips on how to achieve it?

I think turning the streetlights of might be a bit difficulty.

I also attached 2 previews of other streetlights in the area, as some kind of reference to the one I?m aiming for.

I hope this is information enough to help you help me!

Thanks for your help.

This is what im going for:

Reference:

Reference:

I sence sarcasm in the air :lol:

The only answer i can come up whit to the question is: Yes, it is worth it! if it is worth it to you!

Ah, sounds nice, thanks for the answer Jacob!

Yeah i was thinking m42 since i already got a few of them for my old Asahi Pentax SLR.

It should affect the contrast just as a red or orange filter for B/W would

I have never tryed it, but i cant see why it should not