chris cortez

The sharpest S8 I've seen is the Bauer 715 XL-S with the huge Angenieux zoom. I think that's the best fixed glass in the world of S8.

Hi Yemi. :) Bjorn Andersson has my R16 now, or will have when it arrives in Sweden. Maybe he can do my 16:9 viewfinder marking while he is cleaning/fixing my viewfinder and servicing the camera? I'm also curious about modifying or marking a standard Bolex sidefinder for the S16 frame, either for cropping or for a potential DIY Super 16 mod.

Any update so far? Very interested to see your test results... Thanks for keeping us informed as you experiment, very helpful!

Are you planning to repolish the gate surface so the newly filed areas won't scratch the film? Any way you could take some digital photos of the process as you go along? Would be nice to see the details of the insides w/o taking mine apart! (I know, it's cheeky of me to let you take all the risk, but there ya go...) ;) Good luck, Chris

I'm also interested in whatever anyone finds out about spare parts and in the results of all of your experiments. I have a 70-HR and a full set of switar c-mount AR glass and a mostly-full set of the angenieux c-mounts. And a c-mount to nikon adapter. So surely I can find *something* to cover S16. ;-) I've seen Bolex 3-turret conversions where the lens recentering was done by un-centering the hole that screws the turret plate to the camera, moving the whole thing over a touch, then just using one lens at a time (I.e. lose the ability to spin the turret to access multiple lenses). Is that possible on a Filmo? I think I read that there are mechanical parts attached to the back of the turret... I also have the motor and mag for this thing. I think it would make a super Super16 frankenstein beast.

q: if you're looking for cheap and easy, what is your cheap and easy camera solution for crystal sync sound shooting? if you've got something a) sync'd enough and B) quiet enough, you've got a pretty good camera. (or a really long lens.) why assume there's a cheap, easy audio solution that will produce equivalent results? it's true to say you can record sound to these consumer digital formats in that there is resulting audio that one can playback and hear and conceivably even sync with a video track in an NLE. but the results usually aren't great and can't be much manipulated without falling apart. i need a minidisc or something when i need to be the shooter and the sound recordist at the same time, or all my gear needs to fit on my body. but if i give a crap at all about the audio, i'm going to record it analog, b/c the digital gear that would suffice is way, way out of my price range. my $.02, ymmv, etc. c.

yeah, same with any recorder -- you run a nagra off batteries (lots, large) if you don't want to hear the electricity...

I don't see any problem except the set dressing -- cream walls, empty bookshelf, dead-looking bare tree... I like the close-up best. I guess all I'd say is that you can't film what isn't there. - Chris