Lav Bodnaruk

I LOVE IT! I am so tempted to bid! Seriously... just to see what the hell is going on there? It is CameraS, plural, maybe you get 5 of them?! :o Did you list that Tim? That's got to be a joke, it cant be serious... he is selling bunch of other stuff too...

grimmett, that sounds like a heaps funny picture! Do post it if you get a chance. Cheers,

wait till Landon turns serial killer.... hunts down all the memebers... no one will know why people are dying all over world... till we realise there is less and less posts on the forum... just playin Landon... its all good. You are alright...

it does sound like it ey Tim? It is rather worrying...

Hey Dmuench, no I don?t know Matt Weston personally but my DP does, he focus pulled for him on a short or something... Bondi Uni grad right? My Dp finished QSFT (I think) and I am QCA ex... 2001/02... but yeah... How funny is this Landon fellow... contradiction after contradiction... to what purpose? Hans, that new link cracked me up...

Ill agree with Tim any time! Hopefully Landon takes something from Tim's last post... hey Dmuench, i think i once wrote to you via this forum about indi feature i am directing. Since then i got a DP n we moved from s16 to 35mm but in Pauls team there still might be room for something, not sure. If you are intersted however do let me know... ps. most of the guys working on it are off features shot in qld/nsw, from focus puller to camera op A n B to loadders...of course gaffers n grips; dont know if you worked on aqua marine, marine, grade raide, peter pan, middle of nowhere, etc but most of these boys did... so pleant of good contacts to make for the sake of breaking into the industry; we are shooting trailer on 18th n 19th feb;

I initially thought Australia being PAL county, 25fps would be the go... and since the film is aiming at Australian release first and formorest that might be what needs to be considered. I mean, as two options of having sped up PAL version and normal NTSC or normal PAL and slow NTSC, the second seems more logical. I do like the idea of shooting 24fps though -1 less frame ey Paul (no_soft_shots)? We might have to dig for this one a bit harder mate.

G'day Greg, mate that was a wonderful story and not for a second did i think you were bragging. I enjoy hearing things as rare as these, I am a filmmaker after all, and stories are what I live for. I can say i envy the support you would have had at young age, wanting to be a filmmaker. it is something that not many get, for many of the parents and grandparents, will try and influence one towards a more 'usual' job, one that is to gurantee some fixed income. I was fortunte enough not to have that put on me. My father owned a number of different Video Clubs, which allowed me to view all kinds of films, before my age should allow it... educating and opening up my mind to the world outside Balkans, a world into Europe and America and its cinematography. Needless to say pcitures that former Yugoslavia produced were some of the most influencial works for me, and still are to this date; Dad had the first VHS camera in the town, M7; we still have about 3-4 of those and one MS1 (Panasonic)... they just sit on the shelves collecting dust. They played a big role for me in choosing what i wanted to do in life. First i looked through the film camera was through an old BL, at collage. I made it a task to get one of those and i did, 4 years later i bought it from Television Station where it might have been used by Mr Dean Semler... or so they said; my new film fillm be the first time i direct anything on 35mm. that is something i very much look forward to. What was the first motion picture camera you looked through? You mention it in your last post briefly... Thanks Greg, Cheers,

Oh mate that sounds wonderful! Being able to pay your actors on top of shooting s16 is an amazing achievement. I am not that fortunate yet, I say yet as we are still in process of collecting foundings, and thus far we are to shoot this picture on deferred payment for crew and cast. Since we are to shoot on 35mm i am getting people applying to be involved with the project from left and right, merely to collect valuable experience for later in life. Thus far I have had hundreds of actors cross the auditioning door, with only so many getting casted. The crewing up was a bit different, most of them are my mates from feature film sets here in QLD and NSW; my DP did follow focus on number of big features and earned his way that far through years of work as an AC and before that as a clapper, etc... it seems that everyone involved with this project will get a chance to do something a bit bigger and better then in their usual position.... number of students or ex-students applied to be involved but i can only accommodate so many, in being runners, etc... for even on voluntary basis crew costs money through catering and similar... hopefully more founding comes through and enables us to move that step further into paying everyone; this might just happen, since we got interest from so many people already; Your grandmother's cousin Ed Begley, Sr. won an oscar for the best supporting role? Co-starring Paul Newman! That must be something, growing up in the high school with a cousin who won an oscar... dedicating time to you to teach you the craft; It is something one can only envy... Cheers mate,

Wow mate, $10 000!!! My weddings are round about $1500AUD :( there is too much competition around for the small guys like my company and too hard to push yourself further up when there are real DPs with feature film experience shooting them as well - in Brisbane at least. This is mainly cause there is no work on films for rather long periods of time... drought; By the sounds of it that would have been an amazing set-up. Do you have a web site for your business, with samples? Id be interested to see on how you do it all... Cheers mate,

thought questions mate... and it is possible the answers differ for each individual... but i assume the bottom line for all filmmakers is the same, there just aint anything else they would rather do. I know that sounds cliche and even somewhat simple, but a story teller is a story teller, a characteristic that is hard to shake off... the ability to be heard is one of the biggest joys for humans, or at least that is my perception on the whole thing; i figure if i weren't writing my film now, id be stuck in the pub somewhere telling a story to another drunk guy, who'd say "oh should have made that in a movie" :unsure: i know i havent put in years and years of efforth into getting where i am now and where i see myself in 10years time for the sake of any awards, but rather for the sake of being heard. telling an untold story, influencing people and their ways of thinking... leaving something behind, something to imortalise you to a degree; when you break it like that, years of uni, unemployemnt, shitty jobs around studios, etc makes it all seem worth it; dam i broke my neck, escaped war and couple of other things and it was still worth it... just you wait till i make my first 35mm feature <_< Cheers mate, On that note Greg, happy b'day mate! All the best! What do you plan to shoot your independent feature on? Cheers,

I hear ya man! I too feel like a sniper sometime when shootign on the legs into the crowd. Often, during the SPEECHES i pretend i am a sniper and i am shooting them all down :D just playin... but seriously, it can get boring; we also handle multiple camera jobs when the client pays enough. They can also have steadicam (glidecam v20) there should they choose it, stage lights, dance floor lights, smoke machines, bubble machines, strobes, etc etc... ive been in this for too long, i really need OUT :blink:

Greg mate, i am down with that! I own some 16mm gear, the good old BL, with bunch of primes i picked of eBay and Zeiss zoom T3.3 not T3 (nothing good anyways); Also I am working on shooting an indi feature in July on 35mm BL3 and ARRI III (mate's gear) with which we are shooting a trailer in Feb - crazy mess in how much work one needs to do for all this. So yes, id love to put all this DV stuff behind me, but bread on my table is still paid with weddings (unfortunately). We are shooting the EPK for the feature on HDV, and it will be on Fx1 but i really wanted that JVC Gy-HD100 (dam that camera is nice); Every now and then there is a video clip on 16mm but that is no where as consistent as my 50 weddings thus far; and whilst on the subject of Panavision, I am off there on Monday to perform some tests on this film gear, check out some primes and so on... funny thing is that a mate just did a TVC on Panavision Genesis HD, and reckons many ACs were winging at the menues on them cameras, being that they are used to film gear - whilst he found it to be more enjoyable and easier, coming out of DV background... i dont know how good of a point this is and what it means exactly, i sure dont mean nothing by it and prefer film ANY time... Any plans for film shoots yourself? Cheers! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Marts, I didnt think that the PD170 would be able to experience condesation problems that easily. I mean, i had this happen to me with my 16mm camera once, where the temparatures between INT and EXT were so vastly different that the lens fogged up (even though Oz is known as HOT place, it is desert climate here, which means nights can be freaking cold and it differs from days so much so that even rocks can break - in theory anyways)... I watched Russian Ark on DVD the other day and in the behind the scenes they had the same issue of fogging up the lense when going from EXT to INT in -27 degrees; I dont know why, somehow I never assumed that the Pd170 would require temperature stabilizing as such. But of course it would! And i can definitely see your point of trying to secure 2nd camecorder for the restoraunt; I hope it goes well and your gear gets through it! Thanks mate! PS> I will do the plastic bag thing tonight/tomorrow - see how it goes;

Hi Greg, The serial number is 1218920, or so i think anyways - its on the bottom (base) of the camera; The camera has been wonderful, and i have used it without trouble for a while - and yes, i am guilty of mixing tape stock, i wasnt aware of that being an issue till reading Peters post... the sound is fantastic, never had any issues with it; The problem happened some 2 months ago, when we were using SONY Fx1 and Pd170 to shoot some gig and my mate pulled out the cleaning tape from his case. I never ran a cleaning tape through the PD170 before. Did it that day, for 10sec... since then, every 5 tapes or so i would get digitized frame drop out. I say digitized, cause that is what it looks like - big chunk squares... It happened to me initialy whislt using Mini DV SONY (red - standard once) tapes. I was shooting a wedding on SP and the tape wouldnt want to start up... in other words, i would put it in and couldnt record. This was the first time it happened. Error C:22 (I think it was C:22 - dam I should have wrote it down); I couldn't re-set the error, i swaped tapes and had to get battery off to re-set it (was in a rather bad time, as the bride was getting into the limo-anyways i missed the shot)... from there on i stoped buying them SONY tapes... moved to more expensive TDK once. Then about every 5 tapes or so of filming the digitized time code drop out would happen. maybe i am phrasing it wrong, maybe it isnt time code that drops, but definitely looks like it. When importing in, either via FCP or Premier 6.5 and Pro, it stops import or if set to "do not stop if drop frames thingy" then it drops about 10frames or so... Then one time i had been importing for a while (6th tape in a row) and HUGE lines appeared on the screen.. like the fields have been split in half! this was the first time i saw it in my life! I freaked out! I stoped the tape pressed play again, it was still there. i thought the tape was ruined, but then i rewinded a bit and played again and everything was fine - there wasnt evne that 2 frame drop out as per some other instances... anyways, i ran cleaning tape again (after reading Peter's post) and haven't had much chance to go filming with it yet. Hopefully soon i will and then i will watch it back to see if it skipped stuff on me again... i actualy have another small (consumer crap) mini DV camera now that i use for VTR - not to waist the hours on the PD170; Since my camera is PAL i presume there is no issue as per NTSC and 30fps cameras would have... Now regaridng your question of do i have it set-up correctly? I am not sure... i mean, ive used it for a year or so without issues till recently - never changing TC settings; here is what they are just by clicking on the menu screen and reading of the panel TC/UB Set: TC PRESET - 01:00:00:00 UB PRESET - 00 00 00 00 TC RUN - REC RUN TC MAKE - REGEN UB TIME - OFF Ill be honest mate, ive never really understood or questioned much of this TC stuff. Reading your post lots of it makes sense now and is very helpful! ive always had it set to regen ... Ive consider condesation as well, but dont think there is much possability for it. It is always packed in nice dry place in its pelican and it doesnt get used much on bad weather conditions... it could be that there was some somehow though, i guess you never know... one rainy day filming is all it needs... but the day i had that C error flashing was a hot sunny day, and i think it was diry head error message, the C:22; After this big of a break down i presume the problem was the dirty head; if the serial number helps you see when the camera was manufactured and if it is expected to have any problems that would be great; I appreciate your post Greg! I'll use test the camera over the next few days to see if i get any more drop-outs; Cheers!

I agree with most of what Mark said. The girl sipping the drink looks like bad performance, id just take it out. On my computer, with 8ms referesh rate monitor, i couldnt see much of the detail in the driving shots and couple of shots in the strip club, that might do more demage then good in the long run, like Mark mentioned... you want it all to be visible; yeah, also the shot with the girl next to the lamp, i too think that was soft... nice shot though. girl sitting on the leaves is pretty, but soft edges do get to me...was it a flash back? Some shots i really loved. Overall dam good work! PS. was the count down in intro needed? It probably adds to download limit... but its cool;

Thank you Peter! That was a wonderful answer to a question that has had me puzzled for a while. I too have heard that the cameras head drum may require proffessional cleaning after about 1000 to 1500 hours of use, and was concnern since my camera didnt make it that far and was having issues... but hearing you say that using different TAPE STOCK could be the problem, I am left stunned... I have done exactly that since the first day of owning this gear, used every single tape brand under this sun that i could find. It stared of with SONY Mini DV tapes (rearly do i use DV CAM tapes) and then went onto Panasonic (i think it was for budget reasons) and then back to Sony... Sony started making some cheap once, in different colours (here in Oz) and they started to drop the time code so i moved to more expensive TDK once that have been the best thus far. Needless to say, i used some TDK and Panasonic even through the times when I considered myself Sony man.. oh man... it makes sense now; I got a brand new cleaning tape before me - Panasonic Digital Video Head Cleaner Tape HARD TYPE (thats what says on it). I'll use it for 10sec like you said (also written on instructions on the tape) and see how i got. Again, many thansk for the informative reply! Cheers, PS. If the problem persists I have found a tech through SONY that can clean the camera heads for $150AUD - which in my opinion is good price. I know the camera is too young for any head cleaning, but hey, if the problem is still there I dont see any other options. Thanks Peter.

I must be the only one without Panavision hat! That's it, I am getting one next time I am over there - probably Monday since we'll be checking a whole heap of lenses for the 35mm indi feature :) that ought to be worth a hat ...

true that! im in the same boat! Got a lot of friends that will show up to indi productions wearing hats they got from big budget productions, merely to set the status :angry: hehe - got to love it! cowboy hat is popular with productions shot in Oz, by those that aint Aussie... odd ha? A friend just got off from Middle of Nowhere where they religiously wore FLY hats... too many flies in the outback of Oz. http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/featurePr...hp?featureID=81 PS. I got a fedora hat on right now, as I am working through my script edits...its my writing hat;

Do you wear a hat? If so, what hat do you wear to work? Do you hang onto production hats? How many production hats do you have? - imdb should ask to see production HATS before passing on credit :D

yeah, cool... id really like to try and find out what kind of xrays, what level of exposure.... would the dentists equipment be strong enough? oddly enough i can not goggle anything on this subject..

Thanks guys! Ive actualy got that question of killing fungus with dentist X-ray machines brought up here too http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...?showtopic=8608 to which John replied with a document that suggests it might leave some yellowing on the lens... that got me real worried as i was ready to Xray it! The following is from Cine Techic web site and i had pasted in the above thread as well: "In a worst case scenario, exposure to a strong emission of X-rays can kill fungus. This can be accomplished by exposing the lenses to the output of an X-ray device, set to a high exposure." Cine Technic web site I guess I am wondering if anyone tried the X-ray thing... No doubt, as soon as it gets sunny i will take the lens outside (that shouldnt be a problem here in Oz, although we got some weird rain forest like storms right now) and Ill try to see what exposure to UV does... again it may not even be fungus i am looking at, as its tiny, but i just wanted to ask and know my options if it is and it decides to spread... again, thanks!

mate this probably aint a right example but just a minute ago I was making some referance to Busby Burkeley and his overhead shots... the success they had... the audience they drew... don't know if that is what you meant though, but like i said, it was fresh in my mind... but you wanted an example where cinematography distracts the audience... so i guess that aint it... cheers,

Hey guys, got a PD170 that recently started to drop some time code on me every once in a while...(every 5 tapes or so) it will usualy be for about 2 frames or so, but when importing you loose about 10 for the FCP and Adobe Premier seem to go into spazam or something... (irrelevant to settings) Anyways, my question lies in the 2nd paragraph... this one here :D What are the expeceted drum hours on PD170 before something like this is to occur? I tried the cleaning tape, and that is when this problem first started - it was fine till then (dont know why i put that tape in there)... the current read outs are as follows: · Operation 60 x 10H · Drum run 18 x 10H · Tape run 14 x 10H · Threading 57 x 10 Obviously i could try and run the cleanign tape through it again, leave it in for longer... or i could fork some moneys out and get it cleaned properly... but wanted to see if anyone else has an opinion on this and experience with it. I heard that it is rather common with PD170s... By the way I am in Australia, Brisbane if anyone knows of a tech to recommend for the cleaning job. I was going to hit SONY and/or Video Pro? Thanks!

It amazes me how many of you guys are actually trying to remain nice through your posts no matter what limits you are pushed to? im not sure I am as tolerant? Landon, I hear you are 17 years old, I presume that means you are still in high school? I also hear that you are the future of filmmaking; again, I presume you might wish to study film at university/collage eventually? I do wonder though, what you think your first year of collage is going to be about? What your assignments might be based on? How will you explain you feel asleep through them... I am not mocking you mate, I am rather trying to set the scene for you, of what might be expected of you should you choose to study film... On the other hand, at script editing session today, guild editor asked me if my character should really say: "I want my Busby Berkeley shot ready in 5 minutes!" - And if I could re-write it to simply put "I want my overhead shot ready in 5 minutes?.... I don't know... it depresses me... Of course, I wouldn?t budge?

I too think that is a good idea... i;d have a bunch of questions straight up.