Marcel Zyskind

Hi Thanks for your feedback, the bodymount is basically like a steadicam vest with four small tubes with a little platform at the end where you mount the camera. We used Kodak 250D, all available light ext. and a few kino tubes in the bathroom. For the falling down the steps it was very much a good actor perfomance, shaking and turning his body. After the fall we mounted an aminima without a mirror shutter on the bodymount to achive the effect. I asked Ice Films in London to take it out. It's something I've been experimenting with my Konvas where it is very easy to remove the mirror. For the aminima it is something the rental house needs to do, it is not a quick and DIY operation! Many thanks to them for that. I like the effect very much, but obviusly you have no videoassist and no image through the viewfinder. The higlights really streak a lot. I also overexposed 3-4 stops outside of the bus. All the best Marcel

Hi there A music video I shot for a guy called Four Tet. Director was Dan Wilde. Bodymount rig ala doggicam but from taketwo films and a aaton aminima with a 9.5mm lens from Ice Films in London. My favorite part is just after he falls down the steps in the bus. The effect was done in camera. http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/player....14&action=watch All the best Marcel

To me it looks like they had a good time on set. Marcel

Hi Rodrigo The easy rig is a funny contraption. I personally don't like to use it myself, as I feel that it limits my operating, but the idea of it is that the bungy cord carries the camera for you and you can use your energy on operating the camera handheld while walking backwards. I think it would work great with an a-minima and a little onboard monitor in this situation you described. The pogo cam would be to hard to operate while walking in rough terrain since you carry it in one arm away from the body. The trouble with the easy rig is more when you are interior and want to be close and intimate to the actors, it then feels quite big and bulky, and you could have trouble with it hitting the top of a doorway, if you were to walk trough any of those. But I can see the benefit of using it on a mountainside walking backwards. Enjoy the beautiful light in Morroco. All the best Marcel

Hi David Check out this auction on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...mMakeTrack=true Sergey is a nice guy and he sells these new batteries for the 2M. Marcel

Hi there I've had one for a year now. Probably used it two or three times professionally. It's a good little camera for the odd shot here and there or as a run and gun camera as mentioned before. I've used it on a football film where I was running with the players shooting their legs with the camera on a boom pole. Otherwise as mentioned before it has it's limitations, but it also has it's benefits and it's for those reasons I bought it. I'm looking forward to using it more. Take care Marcel

Yes, more or less. Except for a few shots on the sticks, all scenes were covered handheld. All the best Marcel

Hi and thanks Yes, it was strictly optical blow up. DI would have been nice, since it was a blow up to anamorphic 35. We did do tests. But in the end no money for a DI. We graded on 16mm and the anamorphic stretch was applied in the blow up to 35mm. So it goes. I'd pretty much go the same route again. If it is a grainy-gritty feel that is needed. It's a "street film" so the S16mm format suited this film very well. But there are always small things I would change, a compostion here, a light there, but as long as I learn from that... All the best Marcel

Hi It never really happens that I need say anything about actors performance. It does happen rarely that I suggest a different variant. Depends a lot which directors I work with, how they interact with me, how comfortable they are and so on. I must say, I have been very privileged so far to work with very talented directors. That said, I do enjoy watching actors performance and do not distance myself from it. I have enough to look out for, since I always operate on the films I work on as well as light. All the best Marcel

Hi David Was the anamorphic stretch for your films done in the IP-IN stage or was it recorded out "digiscope". I don't know if other labs than Digital Film Lab in Copenhagen offer that service? I have been looking such tests for a film I did HD recently and find that the digiscope can be sharper. All the best. Marcel

You're right John. 7274 It is. All though it would be nice to shoot some 70's stock. :-) Thank you M

Hi A film I did some time ago in London finally gets a release. My first S16mm feature. S16mm to 35mm anamorphic blow up. Aaton camera and Zeiss primes. 7254 (great stock) & 7218 (pushed in some scenes). http://bulletboy.net/trailer/ I really hope to shoot more S16mm for 35mm blow up. I much preferred to HD. All the best Marcel

Hi Check ut this website. It's great. http://alanbarker.com He is very informative. All the best Marcel

Call yourself whatever you want. In the end (or beginning) you are who are. Check out a book called 'Optics and Focus for Camera Assistents' by Fritz Lynn Hershey. All the best Marcel (President of the United States of America) :P

Hi I used the infrared mode on a small handycam, on a mountain crossing at night, on a film called In This World a fews back. In one shot, on slow shutter, it picked up the moonlight, when I covered the infrared light on the camera with my finger. It's one of my favorite scenes in the film, despite the golfball size noise. We graded the the scene black and white. I did use the infrared light on the camera as well though. I think some 3ccd cameras now also have the infrared option, which would yield better results for blowing up for 35mm. I've also, many years ago, used military nightvision goggles in front of a dv camera. I can't recall what make it was. It's worth investingating this option. Of course it wil be green, but you can grade this black and white as well. I suppose it's worth a test to see if you can put this in front of a 35mm prime lens... Good luck, let us know what you figure out All the best Marcel BTW We blew it up to 35mm anamorphic print.

Check out Iceland. Why George Lucas didn't go there to shoot the new Star Wars series I can not understand... It's like being on a different planet. Not so much of a culture shock, but a beauty shock. If you want a culture shock go to Pakistan... Enjoy Marcel

Hi Rafael (rafcamera) and Sergey (sergastr) have been very nice and have had quick delivery. I must say I had a problem with Serhiy (sp314), he sent a completely different lens from the one pictured. I don't mind that to much expect for the fact that it had scratches and fungus, when it was supposed to be mint. He was rude and in the end ignored me. I'll never purchase from him again. Good luck with your buying. Marcel

Hi Remember that for the 60m mags you can't use rolls over 50m. The mags will jam when the exposed film start rubbing against the unexposed film. The konvas camera is great fun. Enjoy. Marcel

DV for filmout is just plain soft no matter what. When you compare to 35mm. I am not saying you should delibrately make the whole film soft focus on camera. But if you have a few shots which are in the "danger" area of the zoom with the anamorphic attachment, i.e the end of the zoom or at wide open, and they are soft, it can still look good. Depends what you're looking for... All the best Marcel Btw I believe the image is sharper on filmouts when an anamorphic adaptor is used.

Hi I must say, I've only had possitive results with the anamorphic adaptor, both on the pd150 and the dvx100. Wide open, closed down. It was all good. It's true, it might not work technically perfect at the very end of the zoom, but who is to say that is a limit? Anamorphic soft focus, blue horizontal flares on DV. I see that as a bonus. All the best and good luck Marcel

Hi Mohab I've shot twice in Dubai. It was for an english film we were making, but I think mainly the work there is commercial work. I have nothing to complain about. I wouldn't call it New York really, more like Las Vegas... We had good time. Don't run over any camels... All the best Marcel

Hi I would like to see if I can get it setup for super35. I know there is a super35 gate available, but there must still be some modifation done to the gate and the viewfinder I suppose... Different groundglasses? All the best Marcel

Hi Adam Yeah, I was wondering about getting an PL mount for the camera. But who can afford a set of 35mm PL mount primes? I wonder if a switchable mount would work. Use the lomo lenses for personal work and hire some PL lenses in when needed. I see what you mean with the clamp on motor, it just doesn't feel to secure on there. I need to find a good mattebox as well. But the trouble is different lens diameters on the lomos. I'll see. It's sort of a hobby project. It would be cool with a lightweight carbon fibre PL mount Super 35 3perf 2M. All the best. Marcel

Hi 435. Is there any camera place in Moscow doing modifications on the 2M? If so can you provide telephone or email. Thanks. Marcel