Tim J Durham

Like Gordon said, it's DV50 NTSC. If you shot 16x9 make sure you select "anamorphic". There won't be any 24p to select at capture since what you have is 60i coming from the tape. If you shot 24p Advanced, then that is in your sequence presets, but the tape is still 60i on the way in (capture) it's not 24p until you do the pulldown afterward. I think I've got that right.

You CAN synch 2 or more XL-2's in either 60i or 30p. Here is an article about it by Chris Hurd from the XL-2 Watchdog site: http://www.dvinfo.net/canonxl2/articles/article11.php This does not help you with getting the DAT recorder synched but if you're in free-run and get the DAT time close to the cams TC, you can do a clapper at the beginning and the difference between the cams and the DAT should stay the same throughout the day.

Boston Camera rents them for $325 per set per day. http://www.bostoncamera.com/

That's good. I regularly rent an SD-930 deck for $200/day. If you can find an SD-93, it should be even less. Not building firewire output into the camera is the one bummer. I guess they figured they didn't want people using the camera as a playback deck or else how could they sell all those $15K SD-930's?

Well, the Mini35 won't work on that camera. You'd need the Pro35 and for that kinda money ($800-1000 for a Pro35 + cine primes), you can rent a Varicam which would get you closer (24p + film gammas) than a 60i ENG camera and a Pro35. I assumed she wanted to work with what she already had.

That's why I suggested you contact the Ukrainian Embassy or Consul. Get something in writing from Ukrainian customs so if/when a customs agent decides to detain you, you have official paperwork. As I said, Ukraine does not yet work with Carnets so there will almost certainly be fees involved and you better know how large a fee BEFORE you are detained at the airport on your way out.

You could do what many other films have done- moonlight spilling in through the window. That could then reflect off of the wall or bedspread and provide whatever level of illumination to the room you want without overpowering your nightlight.

Unfortunately, Ukraine does not accept carnets at present: http://www.uscib.org/index.asp?documentID=1582 but check the list and if you are traveling to any other countries that do accept them, they really grease the wheel. Check with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington or your local Ukraine Consul about documentation: http://www.ukraineinfo.us/consular/consular.html

The camera/lens goes in a soft case and stays with you as a carry-on. Checking it as baggage on a domestic flight is not something that is done, let alone flights to any former Soviet republics. It will be stolen as a matter of course. I'd pack the tripod in a hard case and check it as baggage, monitor also checked in a hard case. Make sure you know where you can rent both at your destination as they may be stolen. The matte box I'd pack in my suitcase with my clothes and the filters would be in with the camera with me at all times. You have them all fully insured, right?

So you admonish others for bashing Landon, then in the next breath: You go ahead and bash Landon. Interesting.... This is your first post so you should know Landon has a long history here feeding off of this sort of abuse. If you'd "suffered" through as many of his posts as the rest of us, you'd realize he enjoys it.

It's probably the gain. If it is set anywhere EXCEPT 0dB, the exclamation point will appear in the viewfinder unless you have gone in and changed the factory parameters for the iLED or someone else did before you. WHAT turns on the iLED exclamation point is settable in the menus. When you see it (the exclamation pt.), you can press a button right above the monitor and alarm pots called "mode check" that will bring up in the viewfinder which settings are turned on in the iLED menu (there are 14 different things that COULD turn on the exclamation point). To access the iLED menu, you press and hold in the menu button while you are powering up the camera and go into the "VF" menu. You'll then see the iLED at the bottom of the list. It is useful to have a Goodman Guide with you when you are setting up the camera the night before as it explains the menus pretty well. The layout of the book can be somewhat frustrating but if you are not overly familiar w/ the camera, I'd say it is a necessity. Do not trust that the rental house will have returned the camera to factory specs after the last time it went out. Your rental house SHOULD provide you with a copy of the GG if you ask them so you can set the camera up yourself. Which you should do, even if you trust the rental house.

Hi, I think anyone who reads and participates in this site would benefit greatly by getting insight into what producers- particularly low budget, independents- go through in trying to get their projects made. It's a very tricky process and from what I've often read here, many are apparently unaware of what a producer has to go through before the camera crew comes aboard. Documenting that process would be invaluable as far as I'm concerned and is the real meat and potatoes of what this site SHOULD be about (and often is). Getting a story onto the screen. That's what makes this site worth the price of admission to me, but I only speak for myself. There will be the odd disruptive dipstick (and I suppose that's been me a time or two) no matter where you post your journal IF it's to be interactive.

A question was asked by a friendly neighbor to our north. I happen to love Canada. I lived next door to it most of my life in Michigan and spent many happy summers on the Canadian shores of Lake Superior and Huron. So Canadians are now asking "what the hell is going on down there? Why isn't anyone speaking up?" And it's a good question. You want friends and co-workers who are focused on their work and whistlingly ignorant of, or afraid to speak up about, what's going on in this country. Good for you. I didn't ask for a soapbox. But the question was asked and I answered. What about you? If you say people should hold their tongue because they might be seen or heard, I say that's when people MUST speak up. Suggesting I don't care? We apparently have different cares. If I was looking to hire someone and found out they were ignorant of what is going on or worse, supported it, I'd have no interest in working with or for them. You said it. Doesn't this statement worry you?

Yes, there are plenty of people who would cower in the shadows afraid to speak up while thieves loot them of everything they've worked for and believe in. If people are offended by those willing to speak up when most stay silent, I have two words for them: Tough poop I'll say it on the internet, in churches, in bars and in the public square. This bunch needs to go. -Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

I don't know who you've been talking to but I hear about something nearly every day about this bunch of cheap crooks that makes me want to flail myself. Maybe even worse than what they do are the legions of lemming apologists who apparently will go to whatever lengths required to rationalize every single infraction, no mattter how aggregious. These are dangerous days. Many are complacent in the belief that these Neocon vampires will be swept out of office in 2006 (the congress) or 2008 (the chimp himself) but after hearing the CEO of Diebold (the company that builds our new electronic voting machines) say he was gonna deliver Ohio for Bush in 2004, I worry that our election process has become subject to wide-scale manipulation. There's just too much money to be made by keeping this "War on Terror" going. If we don't sweep them out in 2006, get a Democrat majority in congress, and impeach Bush, this country is in big trouble. And I'm not just being dramatic. We'll know by November, folks. Al Gore gave a very important speech on Monday. You may not have heard much about it but it was the opening salvo. Stay tuned.

That's 10 Amps, right? 1200w/120v = 10 Amps.

The magnification will be the same with any adapter unless there is an intermediary ground glass to focus the image on such as a P&S Technik Mini35, Guerilla 35 or the Micro 35. Just getting a straight mounting adapter will not get you where you want to be.

Kid, You should take a break for a few weeks up to several years. In each of your 15 posts, you sound like an ignoramous. Go read a good book.

Short of John's suggestion, which is a good one, that camera is interlace-only so it falls on good lighting and shooting in 16x9. De-interlacing is not the greatest choice, but you could try that. I don't think that camera HAS a film-gamma setting but you could check the settings on a camera that DOES have it (like a DSR-450 WS) and just copy them down and see where that gets you. Then try a couple flavors of diffusion filter in addition to bringing down vertical res.

Wow, the guy has done two shorts: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0893473/ Those must've been SOME shorts.

Are you quoting someone here, or is this YOUR ignorant comment about the NY Times?

So which ones- exactly- did you take? If you want people to critique your work, it's better if those people know which ones you're responsible for. You said: One of the first four is the shot of the dog figurine. So that's NOT one of yours?

There's a great poolside scene (well, it's not a great scene, but it looks nice) in "When a Man Loves a Woman" http://imdb.com/title/tt0111693/ (written by Al Franken?) Also "The Graduate", "The Year of Living Dangerously", "Sexy Beast" and for night-time pool scenes, you can't beat "Species": http://www.riotvideo.com/Natasha_Henstridg...Pool_Scene.html Also "Bottle Rockets" and "Boogie Nights".

So you took the picture of the the dog figurine? Why?

Michelle Yeoh is never a poor choice. And she's from Malaysia.