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Carl Nenzen Loven

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  1. I usually develop through school. They have a decent deal with FotoKem, but I am not sure they would offer this, so it would probably be all up to me; maybe I can convice our FilmPost department to help out. C
  2. I don't mind doing it myself, to learn it. But I am just wondering how. If I would order a 400 roll and then try to figure out how much 200ft is, or if you would do two daylight spools and attach together. Yeah I think the ACL would be a better option, if not only for the fact that the Aaton Robert was selling probably went to someone that could offer more money (the struggle of a film school student). I did find a new PL to C mount adapter at B&H, and considering the quality of the PL lenses we have I think it is a steal. But I still would want a S16 model rather than the standard 4:3, if not only, for the fact of getting the “cinematic feel”. C
  3. These looks real good. How heavy is the lens? (Thinking if lens support would be necessary) Also what would be the best way to ship? C
  4. A few things. Where does one get 200ft rolls? I can only see daylight spools or 400ft. For school work we have some amazing PL lenses for our Arri 416, so I think that the Eclair would be a better choice, just for that. C
  5. I am also very interested, if that did not come across :)
  6. I am interested in both. you can send photos to carl.oven@gmail.com please. C
  7. Yeah the shoot is in France. But I am coming back here after :) Trust me I am dipping in to every savings account I have to try to afford it. As you know film school students are not famous for their unlimited budgets ;)
  8. This is a tempting offer. But shoot is in France, and I will be in Europe for two months (originally from Sweden), so renting there was an option until I found it really hard to find a kit. And renting me it for 2 plus months to another continent isnt that much of an option ;)
  9. Yeah, I am expecting a normal service on whatever I am getting. Just not a major overhaul replacing a lot. Hence I want to try to save a little on the system I am getting. WHAT Where?! Is there a for sale part I haven't found yet?
  10. Not over summer break, and to a different continent (I live in SF, but shoot is in France). Not really no :) C
  11. Biggest reason is I do not have the budget for PL-mount lenses. That is a deep rabbithole of it's own. Don't get me wrong I love the idea, but it is also a tiny bit out of my price range as well. The Eclairs I have been looking at has been between 900-2000 including the 12-120mm zoom (which would work great fo the thing I am filming this summer). C
  12. I have nothing to post here that I can show yet, but me and my friends are still working on a proper motor mechanism, getting it exact so each scan will be aligned. It seemed more possible than we thought at first, and we ended up choosing a sprocket based system. C
  13. Hi everyone, So I stumbled onto the winding road of Eclair in a pretty funny way. This summer I have a film oppotunity for a classic car race, and will be able to get a press pass, and also ride with some of the drivers. Naturally I jumped at the opportunity. I wanted to shoot it digital first, but lens + cinemacamera costed me A LOT more than I can afford (3 days was around 15 000 with lenses and tripod). Hence I started looking for an alternative. Being in filmschool my teachers suggested going back to a nimble 16mm camera, and I was first looking at the Bolex/Beaulieu alternative. But speaking to people that owned both, immidiately suggested the Eclair as a brand (also because I love to shoot on the Aaton LTR so they know my preference). Problem is that I find it a bit tricky finding out what to start looking for. I need a 16mm camera, that can be modified to either Ultra16 or Super16 (unless it is s16 from start), variable speed control (I plan to shoot some slow motion, so 64 frames would be nice to have), and that is it I guess. I will be carrying this all by myself over the course of 3 days, along with the film so the smaller the better. My teachers have suggested the NPR, but while searching the web we also found an ADL that looked interesting, pro/cons? Thanks for any help I can get, even if it is just (go to this link and you silly student) C
  14. Thanks for this. It is great input and hopefully we can overcome these issues. And thanks for the link. I'll keep you posted on the progress, and the 100 dollar budget is up for change if we can make it work :) Hopefully solving some of these issues working with 16mm will leave a possibility to also use it for 35mm, but that is a future problem. Well the issue is that I want to scan each frame, not film it. Getting a lower resolution RAW file, even if it ends up being terrabytes of shots, is still the way I want to do this. Doing a repro-photograph-system sync could work as well but I feel then we have the variable of the camera as well. //C
  15. So I will keep everyone more updated, but I have found a friend good with programming and robotics to help me. As well as someone that has a 3d printer and workshop to build the tools. Of course this is not what average Joe got access to so I am lucky. But I'll try to keep everyone in the loop. Biggest issue our robotics expert have said is the exact feeding of each frame, so it doesn't overshoot the scanner.
  16. Pardon my ignorance but I am having a hard time seeing the issue. I mean each frame would take up to 15-20 seconds to scan but still it would work like a linear editing system, placing the scanner in the middle. It is the automation I feel is the issue, cranking one frame forward and locking exposure I can do already. And the ballpark figure (except coding the automation) would be around 100 dollars. Now cheapest I have found for scan is 500 for 10 minutes, that didn't include converting it to the right format...
  17. Hi everyone, I am film student in San Francisco. We still shoot a lot of motion picture on film. Problem is digitizing it. Out school has very limited tech to do this. There is outside labs of course, but cost a lot per foot (for my wallet at least :( ) Therefore I was considering building my own film scanner out of Plustek 8200, modifying a plastic holder. So the idea is to have the old style editing reels, with one side motorized moving one frame at the time. And scanning each shot in a lower resolution TIF/RAW file that can be combined later (I expect any short taking up around 300-400 gigabytes). The problem I am having right now is scanning through a timed system. My first idea was to do this manually, but since it is 24 frames per second, and every shot will take minimum of 12-15 seconds it would add a lot of time for me to do this... Anyone that has done something similar. Would be glad for any help. Best regards Carl
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