Edgar Dubrovskiy

Yeah, Rob! Really want to take a look at it on the bench - just for a personal experience and curiosity, really :) Will report as soon as come back from the lab. Unfortunately, had some bad experiences with the lab before on student shoots regarding how clean the rushes come back/light levels/colours... So not really surprised. Unfortunately.

I think I will be paying a visit to the lab - really want to see how this looks on the emulsion.

Yeah, I thought it looked like a drop of water/chemicals that dried out and then were telecined.

Thanks!

I think, that's what they call "one-light-didgibeta-rushes-burnt-to-dvd-print-screen" :) These jpeg do look dark though, I agree.

Hi guys! Was shooting a student film couple months ago - and was just checking out the rushes. And noticed a weird smudge (?) type of artefact on three frames. They all are just one frame long and don't appear anywhere else. The first one is the real big one (never had a problem like that - dust/hairs seem to be usual after student telecine), the other two seem to be just dust. Right? So, out of your experience - what could be the first one? And where could it occur - loading, processing, telecine? Shot on 16mm, processed normal, telecine to DigiBeta. Thanks!

John, with 35mm is it to have cleaner blacks?

But surely by overexposing a whole stop, you could've just shot 250 instead of 500, for example, no?

I do it on 16mm just to tighten the grain a bit, and get that tiny bit more info in shadows.

Yeah, you are right - 160s/320s etc. are the cleanest. Make sure you have a heavy tripod with a good good head! Just wrapped a two-day doc shoot on capoeira - a lot of people dancing/fighting in rooms with wooden floors. And lightweight tripods supplied by the production did not help - as the camera is so light - the whole thing was shaking, especially on longer lenses. Also, for a "safe" focus would suggest shooting 5.6 minimum on 5D with Canon glass - judging focus off a small monitor is hard. 19'' will help, I guess. And double-check the gear/gear ring sizes so they fit the chosen lenses - had a problem where the focus ring did not fit 28-105 zoom. Good luck!

:) Cheers.

Hi guys! DPd this commercial half a year ago. It was for the Student Kodak Commercial Awards - were given a roll of 400ft' 16mm stock to shot an ad. Finally can put up online :) http://vimeo.com/15297949

You will love it :) I went to one here, in London, couple month ago. If they will show the same stuff - look out for a very cool 2-perf presentation. And their s16 examples. So freaking well exposed and clean - they scanned at 3K.

I would not recommend going above 250D ASA if you don't like a deliberately grainy image. To my eye 500 ASA is too grainy on s16. If you can - I would suggest lighting interiors for 200T. New Vision3 is very nice, tight-grain, stock.

Damn :)

London, LA, Moscow?

Planning to go to Camerimage this year for the first time. But not sure if I will be able to go for all 7 days. So my question is - if you had an opportunity to go, but not for the entire duration of the event - what part of the festival would you suggest to attend? Also, any other first-time-camerimage attendant advices welcome :)

Wow. Thanks!

David, do you know why your inbox can't take any messages? Did you just block all of them, or is the inbox simply full? Tried to send you a PM today - bounced back.

Cheers, will note this one down. Only had one cable in the package, unfortunately.

Cool, thanks for the info once again! It's been yet another Red production I've worked on where we run into yet another Red drive problem. Unfortunately this one was a live shoot... I agree that cards-only should be the default Red set-up. Or ram-only, if budget allows. Edgar.

No, no noise at all, really... David, did you make the decision about using RAM/cards on any Red shoots now? Also - regards mounting the drive - is it safe to mount it on a side, rather then the usual "almost vertical" behind the camera and horizontally on top?

Also used to mark actors' positions on set. Def have white, black and red and blue in your bag at all times.

Hi guys. Was ACing on a shoot yesterday night. RED MX, Build 30. Titled 90 degrees for a portrait shots - shooting a look-book. And then after third slate started to get "Codec Error". Shooting on hard drives - swap them - same error. Reboot - same error. Only going to cards solved the problem. But then, while formatting one of them, camera froze. But that's another story. Have to say - usual stuff, unfortunately... Haven't had time for the logs. Should have, I know. But we were shooting live. London Fashion Week. Unfortunately Live and RED is not the best combination. Any comments, guys? What is the "Codec error"? Research mentioned that it's to do with amount of fine detail in shot. is it true? If it is... it's a bit of a joke, really.

Definitely the flipped one seems better to me. All the people upside-down start to make sense. And you see all the speed, correct orientation etc.