Bogdan George Radulescu

For the smart Mexican boy. I have to admitt you are right regarding the option for Kinor or ARRI in order to improuve the image quality of your shooting on 16 mm. But from this point to accepting your arrogant point of view ( I quote you: "A K3 is useless for anything other than "down and dirty" documentary footage, B-Camera, Crash camera (like the suicide scene in Clockwork Orange), or something like that...") is a long distance. If you are pacient and careful enough, if you have a real artistic mind, full of imagination and gift for picturality, you could shot in a very good esthetic conditions on Frere Lumiere old Pathe camera. Please, look on youtube some footage shot with K3 (the Ian's movies on railways are a good example), excellent edited, and maybe you will less arrogant. I am not K3 advocate, and I know now very well its technical limits, but I think shooting with it is a useful school, a good and chepaer semi-professional starting in the filmmaking direction. It is very easy to show up as a lazy person, saying "bleah!! a K3 is a dirty thing" and then demanding with arrogance the latest technical achivements in oredr to justify your lacke of talent and of imagination.

Todd, Please indicate me from where I could buy a matte box for my Chinon Pacific 12 SRM camera? Please find me some stores with accesories. Thank you Bogdan 004031-1022168 0040-741197621 byzantinic@yahoo.com

Dear Todd, Thank you so much for your answer. I reply you a little bit leater. Sorry. 1. So far, I didn't use yet the camera. I intent to use it starting from October. 2. Why you suggest me using the reversal film stok? Why reversal? Sincerely, I am much more intersted in the digital version of the super 8 mm (the copies on the dvd or the cd) shooting in order to make the editing process by myself and to arrange my own pleasurable sound design. I think - I am not sure if I am wrong - the reversal film could be telecined (it means, transfered into digital format). By tha way, may I put the images of Chinon in the 16:9 ratio format? How it looks? 3. Yes. You are perfectely right. I will always use the ND filter. I had useful experiences with ND on my sony HD video camera and on my 16 mm camera Krasnogorsk in using it. 4. Could you tell me please about the sound recording process with the Chinon camera mic? Did you use super 8 mm cartridge with sound track on it?