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dave olden

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  1. May not quite be 'cinema' glass but ... http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/iphone-slr-mount/
  2. I just wanted to get away from the whole "versus" thing. And I didn't mean to imply that different tools are all the same. (That would be silly of me). Maybe I should tweak my declaration from earlier...? :) -- Dave Olden
  3. Hi, Matthew. (For the record, when I'm asked "Which is better, Film or Digital?" my answer is film. I've been a fan of 70mm since I was a kid). What I understood Zsigmond to be saying — and what yanked me back to that article to excerpt it — was that anytime we ask "which is better, film or digital" we are actually asking the wrong question. Putting one versus the other doesn't matter! The question we *should* be asking: "How is this scene gonna be lit?" When we ask that, the contest is forgotten. We're *not* lighting for camera. We're lighting for story.
  4. I'd like to offer this excerpt from the March, 2011 issue No. 3 of the GAMMA & DENSITY JOURNAL....
  5. "It's video, you don't need a light meter!" (I didn't see him until a year or so later. He meekly told me he'd finally bought a light meter). --Dave Olden
  6. Hi. Just going to throw out thoughts here. This has been front of my mind (I've been re-watching Lawrence of Arabia, and drooling over Freddie Young's immaculate 65mm images). Yesterday, found Kodak has a youtube channel called . It's 9 chapters, shot as little testimonials. There were some great points made, such as... So, there's that. And film doesn't require one of a dozen changing codecs to read it! You just hold it up to the light! Have you noticed that when they bring out a new digital camera, they introduce another codec!? I'm yet to put my own films out there, so i can't speak from having shot on anything more than 8mm way back when when I was a teenager. The upcoming shorts are more than likely going to be shot digital, only because that's what the immediate resources allow. As an independent filmmaker that's no surprise, I guess. But i so want to shoot my stuff on film, and screen it in a theater! You ask if equipment cost is justified. Is my wish a futile and foolish one? I guess it comes down to How many of us are there? For me, i can see my near future: at least (with a sufficient budget) originating on film. --Dave Olden
  7. I just registered, first post. And the question stopped me for a moment, too. But FPS means only one thing to me. I was gonna type "30" before a silent inner voice yelled, "Twenty nine point nine seven!" That voice is gonna serve me well... I hope. :) - Dave Olden
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