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Jeremy Cavanagh

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  1. 1 hour ago, Robin R Probyn said:

    Careful of your strong logic sir .. I wonder if all the hipsters would rather go in for an operation or dentistry with all those lovely old brass instruments .. thats workman ship for you ... and that lovely gas light ..  things were so much better back then,..  and at last I hear betamax is back ..  !!  I hear Chris Nolan is shooting his next film on a Canon Scoopic ..  OMG prices are sky rocketing ..  I saw one for sale in Santa Monica last week .. its double price now .. but I was carrying my yoga mat back to the yurt..  no time .. such regrets .. I'll get on next time Im in Berlin ..

    Robin,

     

    I know you have your tongue partly in your cheek with a somewhat sardonic air but as an engineer in broadcast with thirty years of yet more bloody advanced technology hype in imaging, etc I’d like to contest the ideas in your post.

    There is no such thing as one technology being more advanced than another. Heating water with a either wood fire or a Gen 3 reactor is simply doing the same thing with two different tools. So it goes with cmos imaging chips and silver halide crystals stochastically distributed across an emulsion.

    For me, personally, after thirty years of staring at both under controlled conditions I just like film. I enjoy video (the term ‘digital’ just causes me to snigger but I understand why it is widely used) and it can be used in all sorts of neat ways but to say one technology is superior to another........oh, purlease!

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  2. 47 minutes ago, Heikki Repo said:

    Dead it is. Now please, would someone donate to me their Arriflex 416? I can ... ahem ... take it to recycling.

    Get in line Heikko! There are lot’s of us who want to take that 416, etc with attendant rolls to ‘recycling’.......

    As to emulsion, yep it’s sooo dead, we keep buying it off Kodak because we feel so sorry for them that they haven’t realised they are ghosts.......

    Sad really.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Uli Meyer said:

    The choice of words that are thoughtless is Daniel saying that "blacks and homosexuals are being rammed down our throat on TV". I'm sure you agree that this is not a fact.

    The thoughtlessness concerned the situation where a person died because people in authority put pressure on his throat......for around eight minutes.......despite the dying man gasping out that he couldn’t breath.....

  4. On 7/14/2020 at 12:23 PM, Daniel D. Teoli Jr. said:

     

    , 'blacks' and 'homosexuals' are being pushed down everyone's throat as a rate far beyond their percentage of the population. 

    This is an extremely thoughtless choice of words given the singular event that has triggered off the recent series of world wide protests and I write this as a middle aged, middle class, straight white male.

    As a middle aged, middle class, straight, white male in an industry dominated by a set of white, middle and upper class people of both sexes very sure that they are entitled to make decisions for the rest of us I don’t feel under siege. However, people who have enjoyed a certain status conveyed on them by a particular group may feel any such ephemeral status may be under threat. And I can understand if another group in pushing against against exclusion decides they can do without my status and help even if it’s uncomfortable for me. It’s a matter of being able to change and open to change and I can see in my middle aged, middle class self how difficult I find it is to change.

     

    I can’t speak for the film industry nor can I speak for the worldwide television industry but my observation from years in UK, Australian and to a lesser extent US television, is that there is an over representation of very conservative people where received wisdom on how things are is the prevailing intellectual outlook.

  5. Uli, there must still be hundreds of 35mm projectors lying around in storage across the country. I should wander down to the cinema museum at Elephant and Castle and ask them where they would look for projectors as they have a whole collection dating back over a hundreds years.

    However, you are right, its time to consider moving from London especially if contemplating one’s own 35mm projector in the front living room.....

  6. 9 hours ago, David Peterson said:

    No, my point was we were sold lies as the basis for our lockdown in NZ. (80K deaths in NZ, which is ridiculous. A total lie, no way that would have happened. 

    When you say NZ was told 80K deaths who told you this? Was it the only figure you were told and were you told it was definitely going to be 80k or was it one number in a range of official projections? How do you know it is a lie, what information did you have at the time that showed it was scientifically wrong? 

     

    As Uli has pointed out knowledge of this virus has been limited and is changing by the day as scientists ignore the noise and get on with unravelling what makes this virus tick.

    It could just be that the NZ government is made up of rational types who didn’t want people to die and made decisions based on the best information they had. Take my home country, even the brigands in office in Canberra had to take account of rationality and compassion (two things very difficult for them). However, the usual suspects have been calling for science to be ignored and if a ‘few’ people have to be sacrificed then they will be glad to sacrifice them (I kid you not) for the greater good of restoring the flow of readies into the trouser pockets of those who tell you they deserve lots and lots of readies.

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  7. 2 hours ago, Richard Boddington said:

    I'm guessing this news story doesn't fit with the narrative believed by many here:

    https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-cases-georgia-florida-continue-153633256.html

    Only in parts of Florida. The science is telling the governor of Florida to keep restrictions  in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

    https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/96dd742462124fa0b38ddedb9b25e429/.

    https://covidtracking.

    and that pink commie newspaper.

    https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441

    https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/plan-for-floridas-recovery/

     

     

  8. Two DS8s’, the nearer one - 1:1 shaft.

    Hoping an economical pathway to Ektachrome or vision 3 DS8 stock emerges till then relying on Fomapan and stock stored in the fridge (haven’t tried Kahl).

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  9. 19 hours ago, Richard Boddington said:

    As for the regular flu, CDC website clearly says...vaccines are only effective in 40-60% of the people that get vaccinated.  The vaccine is not a cure all, sorry.

    The link to that page on the CDC website would be useful.

     

    However, you cannot use Flu vaccines as an example unless you can show that any ‘future’ vaccine for Covid -19 will have the same efficacy.  

    To paraphrase: it does not follow.

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    21 hours ago, Richard Boddington said:

    Your fellow Australians think the lock downs were a pile of baloney:
     

     

    Sky News is the Australian Fox news mini-me, not to be taken seriously.

     

    As to Sweden, its a different society from North America and anyway they are all commies in Sweden and law abiding commies at that.

  11. Update. A fellow cinematography member very kindly sent me a copy of an article on the 16mm version which explained in much better detail how to couple the camera and motor together and that has explained everything.

    Being in lockdown here in London should give some time over the next few weeks to run some test rolls through the camera, not sure if anyone is processing film here at the moment though. 

  12. I’m trying to find out how to connect an 8-80 motor to a Pathe BTL DS8 camera. I’ve bought the camera and its motor but can’t find any instructions for the motor. The motor appears to couple with the film rewind mechanism on the camera but as the rewind mechanism appears to only go backwards (as you’d expect). I found a camera operating instruction manual online which has a brief section on coupling the two together via the film rewind but nothing about releasing the rewind so it drives the film forward. I don’t not to break things when coupling the two together and turning the motor on and trying to force it....

    The weird thing camera does have a separate direct drive shaft but the motor doesn’t physically couple to it.

     

    Any ideas.

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  13. There are some cheap boxes that will convert 625 to 525 as SDI (digital) but it might take two boxes or so to get the O/P you want. It would mean hanging them off the tripod or in a box with a power supply or strapping them to the back of a monitor. I think Black Magic might do such boxes.

     

    I haven’t looked at the 435 closely enough to see how you strip out the existing IVS camera for a different format.

     

    One of these days I intend to get around to taking a modern HD machine vision camera, fixing an HDMI card to it and mounting it on a 35 mm.

  14. The Reflecta scanner almost certainly doesn't have the registration capabilities necessary to do a proper HDR scan - for that the film needs to be held in position while multiple exposures are made, so they all line up. Or, in a scanner like our ScanStation, HDR is done by very quickly taking two exposures while the film is in the gate, and then merging them together before output. It's not that it can't be done, but you'd need to be able to scan the whole film, including perfs and film edges, to get the registration right.

     

    ...there is a reason the good scanners cost as much as a house.

    I would’ve thought that as long as the frame is held in the gate for one exposure then adding another exposure would be too difficult and the frame wouldn’t move (I’m excluding continuous movement transports)?

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