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Immanuel Wirt

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About Immanuel Wirt

  • Birthday 04/01/1992

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    Germany
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    Bauer A512
  1. I also think your camera will expose the 500T at 250 asa. The film should already be notched correctly, but since you camera only reads till 250 asa your film is getting 1 stop overexposure. The 200T reads at 160 asa so it gets 1/3 extra light. When you set the filter to daylight, the filter takes about 2/3 stops of light. Because of the light loss of the filter the effective film speed is only 160 asa, but the film is still exposed at 250 asa; the camera will open the aperture 2/3 stops to compensate. I would't worry thought. The film will easily tolerate 1 stop more light. The grain is finer when you overexpose film. When you underexpose film and/or push process it, the grain will be more obvious. I think the reason your footage came out grainier in low light is because there was just not enough light, so the camera keeps the aperture wide open but beyond that it cannot let in more light, so the film may actually been exposed at 1000 asa. You can only get more light on film by shooting at lower fps. Or setting up some lighting. Hope this helps.
  2. When the film has been kept frozen since 2009, it will be ok. 5 years storage in freezer is perfectly fine. The lower the film speed the longer it can be stored. http://www.frugalphotographer.com/info-using_expired_film.htm I don't know about the winding problem either but jamming the cartrigde is more likely to happen when the weather is hot and humid because the film gets stickier. Immanuel
  3. Thanks for the advice, I was going to look for a Hi-MD Player. Some of them where very advanced and small too. Cheaper than a DAT recorder. I am shooting at 24 fps. Don't know what that mini slate does thought. But first I am going to stock up film before sellers correct the price..
  4. Slating it is then.. or just finger snaps, we'll see. The rest will be fixed in editing ;) Immanuel
  5. Interesting suggestions.. It's not that I wouldn't like to do the slating. I would really like to shoot a well arranged movie sometime, but at present my shots are more spontaneous, mostly handheld and like Phil said there's not always someone to hold the slate. But I guess experience will show what works best for me.. In the manual it says you can start/stop a cassette or tape recorder with the right connection cable so that's why I thought that it would be simple to do that. Another question; right now Wittner is selling out remaining film stock from pro8mm. There's fuji eterna 250T and reala 500D still in stock. Should I use the internal filter for the tungsten stock in daylight? or an external daylight filter? Has anyone shot or seen footage in super 8 with those film?
  6. This clip is nice to watch. Good job! Did you use a daylight filter? Or was it color corrected later? Especially the beginning, looks really good for a such a fast film. Is it difficult to refill the film into single 8 cartridges?
  7. Thank you for all your Answers, they're all really helpful. I was having some issues posting.That's also why my post was one chunk of text. Anyway about the sound syncing, I will just be taking short dialogs. And recording ambient sounds for nature shots where the syncing is not a problem. The footage will be send in for scanning so I can edit it on my PC. But when taking the shot, as described in the latest reply, something that will record when I start filming would be nice. So I don't need to start/stop recording to devices at the same time. The camera has a sync port, maybe I can connect the recorder to the camera so that it will start recording as I start filming?
  8. Hello to everyone here, Im altogether new to cinematography. I like taking photographs on 35mm film, which is why I thought starting out with super 8 may be a good idea. I have already read a lot on the web and here on the forum, but I still have several questions. I suppose the best way to learn this process of making a movie will be to try and look at the results. Is there a good book or something about filming on super 8 that would be worth reading? At the moment Im recording my first cassette in my Bauer A512 which is nice and fun. Only the eyecup is missing. Has anybody an idea to find (or make) a replacement part? Another question before I start with my topic as such, is it better to avoid using the internal daylight filter even with tungsten film (using an external filter instead) as they have aged and might affect the picture quality? How to record sound during filming? This seems to be the most complicated issue to me. Is this quite cumbersome to do this? I just want to be able to record sound automatically when I press the shutter and to stop recording when I stop filming. It needs to be portable and something affordable. Does this sync speed issue really matter considering I would be filming only short takes of less than 30 seconds? What equipment other than a microphone would I need? Thank you Immanuel Germany
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