Spencer Gilley

thanks for all your help! the test roll has been shot and sent off to the lab

Thanks for all your help, I just wanted to double check something before I go out and shoot a test roll. - the ELMO 350SL will read E-100D film as 160ASA. - as a result of this, the camera will meter the light as 2/3 of an f/stop underexposed. - thus, to obtain an accurate meter reading for exposure, i must "overexpose" the film (according to the lightmeter reading) by 2/3 of an f/stop. - for all this to be accurate, i will have to shoot with my camera set to the "indoor" setting, which will mean that the 85 filter is not in place. Regardless, I will give it a test using the settings above, but I just want to see if I can get everything set as it should behave, and then adjust after if any of this is proven to be wrong. Thanks again! Spencer

Hello, I have recently purchased an Elmo 350SL Super 8 camera and I was wondering if anybody has experience shooting with this camera, using Kodak's new 100D stock. I was wondering if the camera will automatically read the film cartridge and know that it is a 100D stock (and thus adjust the light-meter appropriately), or if i will have to use manual exposure and compensate for the camera "thinking" that the cartridge is 64 or 40ASA. My reference for this is taken from http://breakoutbox.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/64t.pdf , which states that the camera will NOT recognize the new 100D cartridge. However, in the camera manual, it is written that "When you load your film, it sets your camera automatically to the proper ASA film speeds as shown on the cartridge: Daylight is ASA 25 or 100; Artificial Light is ASA 40 or 160; Type G is ASA 160". The manual appears to state that the camera is aware of the existence of a 100D cartridge possibility and is equipped to handle it properly. I know that most old stocks (from the era during which the camera was made) were tungsten-balanced, and usually these cameras, when shooting with the new 100D stock, will require to be set on the "tungsten setting", removing the internal 85 filter from filtering the light before it hits the film. Kodak mentions this on their website @ http://motion.kodak.com/motion/uploadedFiles/Supre8_100D_SS.pdf However, if the camera was manufactured to be aware of a 100D cartridge, then I should be able to use these settings as they are labelled on the camera, without fear of accidentally filtering light that should not be filtered. If anyone has experience with this camera or a similar situation, it would be greatly appreciated to hear what you ended up doing. Thanks for your time! Spencer Gilley

hello i will be soon be shooting a student film with couple scenes in which the main focus in the frame will be an LCD TV. i am shooting 16mm on an ARRI SRII and was wondering if i will need to adjust the shutter angle to avoid having any sort of lines going across the TV screen. i am in Canada, if that helps (so i believe i am at 60 hertz). will some TV's react differently? i have read that i need a shutter angle of 140 degrees (with regards to shooting some computer monitors), but just wanted to make sure. would doing tests with a Canon 7D, shooting at 24p, be a reliable way of seeing how it will look on film? i greatly appreciate any help if you have had experience with a similar situation! thanks!!!!