Eugene Perepletchikov

Thanks mate, ill look up the places listed. I am going to get it transfered to digital same as reversal, and attempt to remove the orange mask and do all the colour correction myself in post. For now its only a test roll, but im confident that i can do this successfully. Cheers

Hey all I am shooting some negative stock, but unfortunately it cannot be processed anywhere here (Australia). I wanted to get some advice about who to go through in order to process the stock. Here are my criteria: 1. Needs to be a reliable and reputable company. 2. I only want the stock to be processed, not telecined. 3. Speed of service is very important. How long will it take them to process, and then to send the cartridges back to me via express mail? Looking forward to hearing your responses. Cheers

Thanks for all the responses so far. Michelle, I'll check out that Italian company. I also dont see why the neg would have any excessive grain issues if exposed correctly, and I am not looking to have grain free footage, otherwise i would not be shooting 8mm! Matt, its a real shame that your footage didnt come out well. Sounds like you did everything right (atleast in theory) so I guess you either messed up your exposures or the lab messed up the processing. Richard, thanks for the great info again. I am an advanced user of After Effects and am a fairly competent compositor/colourist so Im thinking that the seperate colour channel tweaks that you describe would be within my scope. Ill check out the titles that were shot on the Velvia. The shoot im doing will be locked off shots, but the jitter might not be too much of a problem, depending on how bad it is, since im going for a stylized look. I did almost purchase a Krasnogorsk a few months ago, definately will be one for the near future ;-) So you mentioned earlier that you have some small stocks of the 200T, any chance of snatching one up for a test? Cheers

Hey Richard Thanks for the great advice mate. 16mm would be nice but that would incure higher costs as we dont own a 16mm camera and in the end the stock would be more pricey. I wonder if there is a way of avoiding the hiring of the telecine suite. What do you think of just getting the processing done, and then getting it telecined using your machine (as you do for reversal) and then inverting and removing orange mask ourselves in post. As i typed it i realized that this is probably a bit far fetched and not worth the trouble, but just a thought....I guess I'm banking on the fact that this way I would still have a wider tonal range captured with a lower contrast image with less blowouts. I am very comfortable in all areas of post so I'm guessing that I could do this myself, even getting the specific info on the 200T orange mask from kodak/local photo place. Alternatively, what reversal (colour) would you recommend other than 64T? Do you still stock Velvia 50? Is it the same as the Fuji Velvia 50 (which ive used for medium format photography)? Thanks Richard

Hi all Planning to do a bit of a shot on the super 8 soon. So far i have only used Ektachrome 64T and TriX in my experiments. Loved the TriX, was a bit skeptical about the 64T results, but granted that was my first roll ever and the camera's inbuilt meter was underexposing by about a stop. Basically, I am considering switching to the negative stock for a number of reasons. Firstly, old camera, possible inaccuracies within the mechanism, so im thinking that the negative stock will give me far greater latitude for exposure errors and also for shooting a scene with more than a 6-7 stop range. Also I have read that the grain of the Vision 2 200T is very fine and produces a superior look to the reversal stocks, and been a lower contrast stock it would give me greater flexibility in post for grading etc. So really, here are my questions: 1. Am I on the right track with my reasoning to shoot negative stock? 2. I am in Australia, and it seems that no places here stock or process negative 8mm. What are the good places overseas to post film to for processing and telecine. What are the turnaround times like, are the costs for working with negative stock greater (telecine etc)? 3. Generally speaking, what are your experiences with posting film overseas for processing? How reliable is it? Is it worth the trouble? I need to know how safe it is as i cant afford the footage that will be shot to be lost or damaged, since it will be almost impossible to reshoot. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Cheers