Christopher Lee

Thank you all for the responses!

Are you actually in Cyprus? Is your name actually Christopher Lee? We like to use real names here, it's a professional message board that's always open to students.

Yes I'm located in Cypress CA and my name is Christopher Lee.. I was aware of using my real name when I set up the account.

Our 1080p HD transfer is $0.27/ft (with a $100 minimum which is equivalent to about 7 50ft cartridges) it's to 1080p 23.98 ProResHQ and has been used in music videos, television shows and commercials and even studio feature films.

That sounds great! Just out of curiosity, why do you guys have a $100 minimum?

I have used Duall for reversal, but for negative you need to be very very careful. Know what you are doing. You will have to invert the scan and grade yourself. And their capture method is oooooold.

Thanks for the reply! What would be affected because of the old capturing method? I'm thinking of sending a roll of Plus-X i just shot. Also, what do you mean by being very very careful for negative? Do you know any places that will do the inverting and grading for me for a price that doesn't kill a student?

I'm looking for the cheapest super 8 scanning service in the US. At least in 1080p and in an editable format for a Mac. I'm a little confused on why people charge so much for scanning services. If anyone could help a student out that would be great! For now i'm looking at Du-All Camera.

Also, I just read the box of the expired Tri-X 7278 film and it says that with the daylight filter on, it will be read at 100asa which I'm guessing means I can just set my Nizo S560 to the daylight switch and I will get a proper exposure at 100 asa. Sorry about all the questions, I'm quite new to this format.

I'm assuming expired Kodak Plus-X 7276 will be properly exposed with the Nizo S560 at 32asa with the internal 85 daylight filter switch on? Anymore suggestions on this? Thank again in advanced!

I have found that with aged reversal you are best to get as close to the original exposure/Iso as possible. Over exposing just Leads to way less highlight detail and, with color, way less saturation. If it were negative i'd say over expose by one stop but that's just too hard to do correctly with trix.

160asa it is! Thank you for your input!

I bought a Nizo S56 a little while back and unfortunately it came broken. I cleaned the battery compartments for both the meter and motor very well with rubbing alcohol multiple times. Yet it still didn't operate besides the power zoom. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Also, the entire side plate (not the side with the controls) is very loose and can be slightly opened when pulled to the side. How do i close the side plate back up?

Tri-X is 160T/200D so will expose fine at 160 ASA. Besides, if you use anything like a yellow to red filter, you'll probably want to be at 160 ASA anyway (since that is converting the incoming light towards the redder end of the spectrum). If the camera has an internal 85 filter switch, then you can use that as a pseudo-orange filter to add some contrast to your skies, though it is more subtle than what a red filter gets you. Plus you'll need some sort of ND or red filtering just to cut the light levels down in bright sunlight. Remember the Sunny 16 rule... which tells you that at 50 ASA with a 1/50th shutter time, your exposure in direct sunlight is f/16.

 

Testing would be a good idea. The contrast of Tri-X is high enough that you may want to manually adjust your exposures from what the meter tells you, stopping down a little more for light or bright subjects and opening up a little more for dark subjects.

Thank you! So shoot at 160asa, use red filter (necessary for bright sunlight use and better contrast), and maybe manually adjust my exposure? I was thinking the camera's auto exposure could take care of that for me (correct me if i'm wrong). Also would i need to compensate for expiration? Over expose one stop per decade? Example, meter reads f8 and I manually change it to f5.6 for one decade. I'm not even sure if i can find the expiration date for this film.

Hi all, I just got a roll of expired tri-x 7278 super 8 film and i was wondering whats the proper way to expose in a Nizo S 560? I realize the S560 only reads up to 160asa in tungsten and 100asa in daylight and if i am going to shoot in mostly daylight, how would i go about doing so? I'm also looking for a good color stock to shoot so suggestions would be great!