Curtis Alexander

Everybody that is buying a scarlet should at least have a scoopic or a k3 or bolex or somethin'. :) I'm really going to try to give my k3 a workout this winter.

I shot a short with a scoopic in 2008 which you can see here: http://unidob.ca/ If you listen to it I think you will reconsider trying to record sound while the camera is running without some kind of sound dampening. At some point I'm going to have to redo the sound completely. :) I don't feel too bad about it b/c the whole entire thing was done analog, sound onto tape, mixed analog with insanely old equipment, etc and was a good learning experience. There is no way I'd try to record dialogue while that sucker is running unless you can blimp the crap out of it.

OK, thanks. I bought a couple inexpensive grey cards and when they get here I'll start muddling through the process, hopefully learning as I go. Sure like my K3 camera though...really are built like a Russian tank, and with a nice M42 mount as well. Much to learn.

Where does one buy inexpensive charts? And then once you've shot a chart, how do you go about interpreting the results? (ps. I think it's amazing you post on forums, David Mullen ASC, and help people out!)

So I recently bought a Krasnogorsk-3 and I have a whole whack of kodak 3374 (is a high contrast b&w film meant for sound use) and I don't know how to test it. I'd really like to try to get good at shooting this film (perhaps it's not such a good idea given what the film is meant for, but I would imagine testing film is a good skill to have anyways). I picked up a Sekonic l-758CINE and would like to try to profile the k3 if I can. I've seen a couple examples of doing so for DSLRs (which is perhaps what the l-758 profiling is meant for) but I'm wondering if the same concept can be applied to film? My workflow would probably be to have it scanned digitally, so I would assume that would be part of the process as well, but I don't know how I'd set the film up to be tested/profiled and also take into account the digital scan. Any pointers on where I should start reading as to how to approach this? Thanks, Curtis.

Specifically I'm wondering how they got the 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST look...I know it's Kodak 35mm film: http://www.42kmfilm.ro/en/12-08-east-of-bucharest/about-the-director but does anyone have an idea of how one might approach getting a similar look? Here's one snapshot from it. The red couches looked a lot better on my tv than my computer monitor.

Well, I think it's pretty obvious that HDSLRs have brought some cameras down in price. But, while I own a Canon T2i, I really want to pickup a 16mm camera, so I have ebay searches going on pretty much every camera mentioned in this thread, and having said that, I'm not sure they have dropped that much, at least not today. :)

I made something similar for a film class a few years ago. So much fun to work with film; I think it's so important to do that given how things are going digital. I imagine it wasn't part of the requirement, but some sound would have been good. Given that you have a digital copy, someday it might be good experience to revisit your short and add in some sound. I should do that to mine as well--I have sound, but the canon scoopic makes a lot of noise and given I don't have any dialogue I could go back and re-do all the sound.

FYI, Fish Tank, pretty recent movie was shot 1.33:1 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232776/technical I thought it was a great. I saw it in the theatre and have the dvd. I admin 1.33:1 was a little surprising, but I don't think anyone else in the theater cared.

Hmm, yeah, it seems so close in the negative but I just can't get all the way. I can't try moving it more without fear of breaking it. I think I will just return it in the new year and let them know I couldn't get focus. I've used this camera a few times before and have had no trouble at all with focus, so I think it need some maintenance. Thanks so much for all the replies!

Re darth vader thingy...if when I say diopter and you say darth vader thingy, :), we both mean the eyepiece on the far left of the attached img with the white markings, then yup, I can alter the focus using it, that I can never get it racked in, ie. never in focus. Close, but not quite.

Yup, I'm looking at a bright light, tried a couple different spots out into the sky. Can't get it into perfect focus though.

Hi, I rented a super 16mm modified bolex from my local film co-op and I cannot get it into focus just by looking through the eyepiece at the ground glass and manipulating the diopter. I'm doing this with no lens on. Also with my glasses on and off. I asked my girlfriend to try as well and she could not get it into focus either. (Where in this case, focus means trying to get the markings and the dust and such on the ground glass into focus.) What I'm wondering is...is this me? Am I doing something wrong? Or is there possibly something wrong with the camera? I've used this camera before, but not for a year, so perhaps it's not been maintained, or I've forgot how to set it up right? Any suggestions would be helpful. I'm not sure what model of bolex it is. Thanks, Curtis.