Thomas Thomas

Hi, Scanning was done at Berola as 16bit uncompressed TIFF. The grain structure and the perfo hole are sharp. So I doubts its the scanning. I think I use the auttum here and shoot another cardridge, while changing focus and focus length. If it is wrong collimation or film alignment, something must be sharp. Either far objects when focusing near object or vice versa. What does TLC mean? Would it be an option to get a C-Mount -> MFT-Adapter and check the Schneider-Kreuznach at the blackmagic or panasonic? But theres another completely different problem: Its visible best at 3:00 at the stone of the fountain just in the middle and at 3:50 at the gates. Some stones get a green color cast. The 50D shot the stones around the gate goes into the green. Where as the stones in the blackmagic shot goes into orange. Even the shot at 2:14 where the orange tram moves by. The shadows at the left have a magenta cast and the houses at the right have still a greenish cast. I dont know if something during development went wrong (by Andec). It did only "global" color corrections. (primary wheels and YRGB-curves in resolve). No power windows, no selective color correction, no sharpening, no stabilizsation. The blackmagic have a different red reproduction since it seems to beo optimized for skin color. (skins perfect, red roofs too orange) But I used my panasonic G3 as light meter and have stills of every scene. Even there the stones are not greenish, but orange. Its strange because it you look at the color circle, some orange tones will get a greenish cast and some slightly different ones a magenta cast. I cannot imagine any scientific explanation. P.S did someone understand the gag with the four additional accus for the BMPCC? P.P.S it was not a gag. Is really needed them ...

There are much sharper super8 videos on youtube filmed with Kodak 50D. (though, there's also a lot of crap) But more importantly: At the beginning of the film and at the end the film moves up and down. And there are 2 sharper frames! Here the test footage: At 1:27 theres one of the sharper frames. Look at the orange LED writing over the tram's front window. Just as it is exactly below the round ceiling window the writing is sharper in one frame! Btw. here the comparison:

Here an example. scaled to 1024

Where do I find clear gelantine filter? In the 1980s when I hade a dark room and developed color prints I used a set of 33 cheap gelantine filters (I was a school kid at this time with less money). They said they are for use above the film in the filter mount due to its bad optical properties. Although I used it for color Dogde. Are gelantine filters really good to be behind the lens? Actually you dont need 85 filters when filming wih negativs. I tried it. The 3200K<->5500K filters are round about one stop in the red or the blue channel. That can be fixed by grading.

What about a little glass in the filter holder instead of the filters with same optical "thickness"?

On the viewfinder screen its sharp. But that the cam was damaged is possible. They write something about removed filter: http://www.pro8mm.com/Merchant5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=01&Product_Code=AR4008_OVERHAUL_MAX8&Category_Code=Beaulieu4008 "• Lens re-collimation (Because this is a reflex system, when you remove this filter system you must recollimate the camera body to standard specifications or your resulting images, particularly in wide angle, will be slightly soft.)"

Thats not the reason. I filmed most of the time @6mm around f/4 - f/5.6 and totals of the city. The lens was at infinity. And some shoots at longer focus length are sharper. That would match the theorie, that the filter is missing. Btw. but viewfinder was correct. I used the matte screen.

Hi, my Beaulieu 5008S is sligthly out of focus. I had to turn the focus greater than infinity. I noticed it at the beginning of the film. The film seems to move up and down, and one frame is in focus! So can see its not the lens, not the film (50D). I know it must be greater infinity because other way round some nearer objects should have been in focus. My film is not in the focus plan. I removed the plastic 85B filter and its clear dummy. I suspect that my out of focus problem lies here. Can it be? I thought the plastic was quite thin witout optical effect. Does anyone know if I can replace it with a thin glass plate? How think? It should have not much influce how this plate was mounted. Thomas

Hi, I bought a beaulieu 5008 s. The accus are dead, so I opened the accus and replaces it with new 6 AAA cells. Worked fine. But the light meter gives wrong results. When I switch to "auto" the aperture motor works and adjust an aperture. But comparing to e.g. my panasonic G3 the results are wrong. It chooses a much to closed aperture. beaulieu 5008 s is set to 24fps so its 1/60s. When I switch the ASA setting to about 40 than the values are nealy ther same compared to what my G3 shows at 400 ISO and 1/60 at apurtures around 2.8 to 8. Thats a factor ot 10! But it measures the bright sky too dark. Here ther G3 shows f16 or more but the beaulieu goes to 11 ... only. Seems the measuring is wrong. Can someone tell me something about it. I really dont need it. But it would be fine when it works. Thomas