cole t parzenn
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Not another film vs Digital debate, however...
cole t parzenn replied to Hrishikesh Jha's topic in General Discussion
I saw "Interstellar," among other poorly projected and often interrupted films, at an Arclight. They didn't care about anything, really. (But "Psycho works surprisingly well in 2.39, I learned.) Anyway, what causes the prob;em with video projectors' blacks? -
Not another film vs Digital debate, however...
cole t parzenn replied to Hrishikesh Jha's topic in General Discussion
I live in one of the ten largest cities in the US and I get to choose from the theater with clean screens but noisy projectors, the theaters with dirty screens but ok projectors, and the theaters with ok screens but terrible projectors (noisy and with green and magenta areas around high contrast boundaries - especially problematic, since they get most of the foreign films), so I'm not convinced that video projection has solved any problems, other than the cost of shipping prints. And that's leaving aside any comparisons to idealized film projection, to be clear. When I saw "Interstellar," the first reel was scratched (less than a week in) and the bottom half of the screen was out of focus. -
Interesting. It's been a while since I last saw one of his films but the long lens never jumped out at me, until now. Nice to see "Stardust Memories" included.
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Not another film vs Digital debate, however...
cole t parzenn replied to Hrishikesh Jha's topic in General Discussion
So why is this? The most recent film I saw in theaters was "Ex Machina." The title cards aliased. -
Interesting. I would think that treating each 2x2 square as one three channel pixel would be computationally easiest and give the "truest" image.
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Star Wars Episode 7
cole t parzenn replied to Giray Izcan's topic in In Production / Behind the Scenes
"2001" was a sleeper hit, as was "The Shining" and, I presume, several other Kubrick films. "2001" was also unfinished, after four and a half years of production - I don't think that the comparison is warranted. -
65mm B&W Motion Picture Film
cole t parzenn replied to Scott Pickering's topic in Film Stocks & Processing
I saw that but wasn't sure what to make of the "Fries" name. I wonder about the lenses... -
I did a bad mistake shooting anamorphic ...
cole t parzenn replied to Jonas Spitzenhuber's topic in General Discussion
It's the originally intended anamorphic aspect ratio... And, if you finish at 4K, you gain vertical resolution! Is there an advantage to shooting 2.39 video anamorphically? I saw "Chef" in theaters and it didn't look bad but the resampling required just seems risky. I've heard that there are plans for 1.8x anamorphic lenses but you're still resampling by a non-integer multiplier on one axis. It seems to me that we should have just been using 21.29*17.78mm sensors, to begin with, since that's 35mm cine lenses are designed to cover. -
I agree but aren't they doing both? As an aside, 6K "VV" is diffraction limited past f/4 and 8K "VV," f/2.8, ignoring interpolated color. It should look similar to Ursa footage, shouldn't it?
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65mm B&W Motion Picture Film
cole t parzenn replied to Scott Pickering's topic in Film Stocks & Processing
Well, I know of ONE available camera: a seller refurbished Mitchell FC - yours, for just $29,995! According to Wiki, they're BNCs, made bigger. -
Fox contracted them, for Grandeur; Technicolor contracted them, for Process IV; the BNC was a longtime standard; Fox contracted them, again, for 65/70; the name "Mitchell" seems to still command respect - why?
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Wishful thinking, by Mr. Edeson: From my experience with 70 millimeter cinematography on "The Big Trail," I can confidently say that the wider film is not only the coming medium for such great pictures, but that it will undoubtedly become the favored one for all types of picture.
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I get that intercuttablility is desirable but, since such disparate speeds are rarely intercut, I expected Kodak to have independently optimized the resolutions of the slow and fast stocks. How do you make a low resolving slow stock, anyway? And can it really be said to be inherently sharp? The MTF never gets significantly above 100, so there's no coarse detail enhancement, to make up for the fine detail loss. Did you mean that there was less apparent noise?
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90 Minutes in Heaven
cole t parzenn replied to David Mullen ASC's topic in In Production / Behind the Scenes
Other than the use of digital technology, was the cinematography of the Star Wars prequels notable? -
What Fstop is used the most in movies.
cole t parzenn replied to Reggie Miller's topic in General Discussion
50mm is slightly long, in 135; (24^2+36^2)^.5=43.3 (rounded). -
Top 10 Films to Watch for Cinematographers
cole t parzenn replied to manigandan srinivasan's topic in Cinematographers
Good point. The reason I asked, was that some of the films have a lot of overlap in style. -
Top 10 Films to Watch for Cinematographers
cole t parzenn replied to manigandan srinivasan's topic in Cinematographers
Is your list long, because you think that each of these films teaches a unique and necessary lesson or because watching many films is educational, in and of itself?