Robert Sawin

thanks for all the support guys keep the Idea going by posting comments and uploading your tests. I look forward to seeing new tests.

I would have to agree with you the lens was a bit soft and it was a bit frustrating because I was using school equipment. Apparently few students seem to want to take care of the schools equipment. As for the charts I was very stubborn to use them because I wanted the tellecine operator to only use the tellecine analyses film "TAF" strips. But it turns out that they did not have them. Well in short I did learn my lesion as far as film testing goes. I had no idea how important the color chart was till after my experience. What is even more frustrating is that even if I did have the taf strips the operator would still have to correct for the taf strips so in essence there is no 0 value for color. I guess that is what I get for being stubborn. But I will use the color chart more often next time to keep every thing some what even. I really hate it when there is an operator correcting for the color when a film test is presented.

Why would you say that?

Thank you so much for uploading all that. Don't forget that there is a lot more written content of my experience on the youtube video descriptions. I can't wait to experiment more but I don't think I will have an experience quite like this one again on my own budget. It cost a pretty penny but I would be thriled if I could experiment more before a shoot and I will post more as I shoot more. Again thank you Brad

I am glad to hear that. :) I did my After death short for $600 for every thing. But equipment was provided by the school. most of my stuff is low budget. :) You can see after death on my web-sight. Maybe it will give you some ideas.

Hi art I am glad you found the visuals useful. I updated my webpage so you can have many resources and more. I edited the footage at apples 422 codec so there is little loss and compressed the footage using h264 codec and uploading it I found that it was better then my other uploads at least I think. the bad thing about youtube is that it compresses the footage even further but it at least it works some what. don't be afraid to download the zip file the images are uncompressed so you can better judge for your self. I am really excited in contributing to the cinematography community and hope to see bigger and better things from it. I hope your projects go well. :)

Sorry I can't It is over a 100 mbs. It is too many to sort through. But you are more then welcome to have at it if you like. I am just doing my part. Sorry if you feel that downloading the file is too much for you. :(

well this is kinda sad cause the web inherently has a lack of quality but it does not mean that we should not at least try to share our findings. I mean I really think I am the first to really do this in this way. But I don't want to be the last. I believe that we are a community of cinematographers and we should at least upload videos and images to the community for others to learn. But that is my opinion. Here is another Download link of the uncompressed image sequence. Enjoy. :D Let me know if this works for you. http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ff528e4...04e75f6e8ebb871 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qqnzznejknm

I am actually kinda surprised I was expecting more activity in this thread. I mean when I set out to do these tests it was like I could not find anything out there public to give me an idea as to how film stock reacts under different development process. And I have seen all of Kodak and fuji films demos but nothing like this before. Really as a community of cinematographers it would be nice if we shared our tests and experiences. I mean at least this is how I feel.

Let me know if you got it to download. :)

all the way at the bottom it says "Save file to your PC: click here" click on the "click here" text.

http://www.2shared.com/file/5965286/c47fbf...e_sequence.html http://www.2shared.com/fadmin/5965286/f698...quence.zip.html

I made a tiff image sequence. Hopefully this will help. :)

Thanks for posting. No I do not work in a lab. I got all this done at foto kem. I knew what I wanted when I was testing the stocks. I was more concerned with the quality of the grain structure and the clarity of the image. If I do it again I probably would mix things up more and go more extreme on the pulling. like do a pull and a skip bleach and a cross process on a color reversal all on one stock. or maybe pull 4 or 5 stops. color is way more forgiving then B&W. and foto kem won't do any thing too extreme unless you bend there hand backwards or tell them it is a different stock. like saying a 250 stock is a 50 stock. something like that. I have been doing amateur photography for 13 years so these special process are not new to me. But motion picture film is so different then still in so many ways.

Don't be shy I see people are viewing the thread but it is ok to respond. :) Really I did this for the aspiring and practicing cinematographers. Any criticism is greatly welcome. :)