Steve Wallace

I have never because I wanted to correct for daylight. It would work just like you say, .2 ND = 2/3rds (same as the 85B). But if you were to do that, you would get an uncorrected image you could add red to in post. In my telecine they added red, so its pretty much the same.

I never had any problem with water inbetween the camera lens and filter, I just screwed it on fairly tight. I did get water between the filter and the PMA adapter though (though the holes slit in the PMA). It is something to watch for. After shooting, I let it dry and later washed it with fresh water, so I wouldn't buff any salt grains into the filter.

Yes you are correct. I mean tungsten/bulb... lol. I was tired when I posted that. You are tricking your camera into thinking the film is 40 ASA. Works like a charm.

Shoot in daylight mode, and use an 85b over the lense. 64t - 2/3rds = 40 asa. I've done it and it works perfect. Even underwater with the PMA. The focus is fine (ie the thickness of my 85b doesn't throw it out of focus).

I was watcing on a normal tube TV too. It was when I encoded to DVD, I got jaggies / wavies from the interlacing. But when I gave the tape dup house my interlaced file 720 x 486, 29.97fps lower field dominance, black magic 10bit uncomressed it played perfectly on the d-beta desk. Thats what I don't get ... why can't my interlaced DVD play without problems, but my interlaced d-beta is fine. I tried compressor and ffmpegx to encode, until i gave up and deinterlaced. Which turned out fine more or less. But obviously the d-beta looks way better. There is no 29.97 "P" ... by nature it is "i" As far as I know, that is correct. 24P DVDs the player adds the 3:2, 29.97 DVDs the 3:2 was added in the telecine stage (or software etc...) ? My timeline was 29.97, and the field dominance was always set to lower? I didn't use a 24P timeline because my telecine was 29.97.

I had the same problem with a 29.97 d-beta export to DVD. I finally ended up deinerlacing the DVD using motion estimation in compressor (final cut studio). I know it may not have been the best solution, but I have a deinterlaced screener and an interlaced d-beta master.

I find that 82 degrees a bit narrow, from my experience. But I just googled, and other people are claiming around the same thing. I guess my memory is a bit cloudy. I can attest to it looking similar to the Kinoptik 5.7... I've used both (in r16) on different cameras.

I have no pics, but the image is wide. IIRC it was around 160 degree FOV. I used a c-mount version on a bolex regular 16mm.

CinePost (www.posthouse.com) in Altanta are good on the cheap, although not that cheap compared to others mentioned here. And I've used fsts.com for super 16 to HD and it was great, but probably the priciest mentioned here.

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Tom DiCillo?

If you are interested in the techinique used in the Aviator see: http://www.aviatorvfx.com/index.php?cmd=fr...ew&id=color http://www.aviatorvfx.com/

They used a wheelchair.

Un Flic by Jean-Pierre Melville has one of the worst miniture scenes (the helicopter landing on the train). Otherwise a great movie though. His films are so great but produced entirely independent so budgets were tight.

320 to 500 is 2/3rds of a stop. (320>400>500) It's customary to over expose if you are going to print especially. It will saturate colors a bit, give you richer backs, and tighten grain. Rating the film, is just an easy way of remembering; "For this certain look I desire, I am going to to overexpose everything 2/3's of a stop, without doing the converstions in my head. I'll let my light meter do the math for me".

Needs to be less than 40 minutes w/ titles. http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/rules/rule19.html I. DEFINITIONS and CATEGORIES 1. A short film is defined as a motion picture that is not more than 40 minutes in running time (including all credits). 2. An award shall be given for the best achievement in each of two categories: ANIMATED FILMS An animated film is created by using a frame-by-frame technique, and usually falls into one of the two general fields of animation: character or abstract. Some of the techniques of animating films include cel animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, pixilation, cutouts, pins, camera multiple pass imagery, kaleidoscopic effects and drawing on the film frame itself. LIVE ACTION FILMS A live action film uses primarily live action techniques as the basic medium of entertainment. 3. DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IN THE LIVE ACTION CATEGORY. AN ANIMATED DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT MAY BE SUBMITTED IN EITHER THE ANIMATED SHORT FILM CATEGORY OR THE DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT CATEGORY, BUT NOT BOTH. 4. Previews and advertising films shall be excluded. A sequence from a feature-length film (an animated credit sequence, e.g.) may not be excerpted and submitted as a short film. An unaired episode of an established TV series or an unsold TV series pilot will not be accepted as a short film in the Academy's Short Film competition.

I have Sachtler ENG sticks w/ a video20P head, albeit much more expensive than what you are looking at; I can speak to the quality of the craftsmanship. I have used this, and an 18P head with ARRI SR3s' and a bunch of smaller cameras and they are great. Built very strong, I beat it up and it keeps going. I even brought it out to sand dunes and it was fine. The only Miller tripod I've used was really old, so it is not a fair comparison; but it was quite sturdy as well.

Alex, Check out http://www.super8mm.hu/ for Hungarian super 8. My most recent short, There May Be Pleasure is playing in the festival competition on September 7th. Also see ; http://onsuper8.blogspot.com/2007/08/hunga...or-super-8.html The Super 8 Group in Szeged, Hungary has been collecting small gauge films for more than 7 years with over 170 hours of film material collected and ready to be digitalized and categorized. When they're not collecting, the group also shoots Super 8 films which also serve as a background to their multimedia performances. This year the Group are staging their own Super 8 Film Festival on the 6th to 9th September 2007 in their hometown and are calling for international entries. The rules are simple - only on 8mm or Super 8 film - and submission categories include - feature films, short films, documentary, animation, travelogues, clips and private films. Entry is free and the deadline is 20th August. For more details see www.super8mm.hu or send entries on DVD to - Rózsa Péter, 6721 Szeged, Római krt.40., Hungary.

Agreed, volvo!

Looks very good. I agree on the opening shot being m least favorite. Everything else had a certain moodyness that I liked, whereas that shot lacked it.

If you're shooting negative, I would overexpose 1.5 stop. 2/3rd for the reflex viewfinder and 2/3rd to tighten the grain. Others experience may vary.

Robbie Muller is another...

For me, Jean-Yves Escoffier, Anthony Dod-Mantle, Chris Doyle

Chinon (super 8 cameras) are Japanese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinon_Industries. It is pronounced " chi (like the stuff in bruce lee that makes him punch hard) no (like the opposite of yes) n"chi-no'n

fantastic frames. obviously very talented even at these early stages of developement. thanks for sharing.