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excellent advice and yes.....I find i get used to it.......yes set focus at T2 and then go down to T8 etc and its a matter of finding the key elements that give away focus and its a good challenge indeed but gratifying....still, the big guns have focus pullers etc so framing is not the issue at all....
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So it's a really peculiar thing to see the film flickering by as you shoot on 16mm or whatever it is when like me, you come from stills photography. Is this predominantly why people use video taps (aside from other obvious reasons like more than one person seeing what one is grabbing)? I find i get used to it and it doesn't bother me after a while....anyone have any tips on camera operating a film camera with a viewfinder......for example when you have to refocus cos you are on a minus budget personal project shooting film?
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Huga Drax from Moonraker...yessss....what a great villain.....funny how they still all have the english accent = villain hahaha. I remember we all loved Jaws back in the day.....the best henchman ever?? the scene where he cuts the tension wire with his teeth forever etched in our memories hahah Scaramanga was the coolest though.....Christopher Lee is great.
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ok ok maybe i was feeling grouchy on my first watch haha....the cinema was packed and I couldn't stretch my legs out properly as had people either side of me...and its a long film! I am going to the cinema to watch it again....lets see what I think then..... I personally like Rami Malek as the villain.....the 40 year old has that look in the eye and the way he purses his lips makes him quite unnerving to watch. Of course the Freddie Mercury casting is hard to forget. I liked the fact Ana de Armas character didn't become another Bond film trope and that her time was limited to the fight scene during that mission in Cuba and that's it. The Mi6 characters are all great casting in my opinion. Judi Dench was superb in her time as 'M' and now Ralph Fiennes is a worthy successor. Ben Wishaw as 'Q' is great too and very believable. I like his line about being able to care my damage in his pyjamas thats any field agent etc et at home in a previous film.
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Reverence for cinematographers here is expected. I for one hold Linus Sandgren as one of my favourites not least because he's one of the world's best and most fervent celluloid-shooting DPs around. My opinion still remains, as a cinephile, that the film has one too many blue flares and they are pandering to the YouTube generation that equates a flare with great shooting. It may have been the producers for all we know that insisted on the flares who knows....haha wtf Ironic - I'm of the generation that spent time and effort trying to avoid flares using lens hoods at all costs before they became a thing.....
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and why not....a comparison of the difference between the blades themselves! Note the straight sides on the blades of the pentagon on the 80mm as opposed to the rounded sides of the pentagon on the 110mm The 80mm Planar, in my opinion, is a beautiful lens offering beautiful drop off in focus and bokeh
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I have a film stills photography background, not a cinematographer or even close.....but how the hell does a lens change characteristics based on whether image is recorded on film or digital. I've used/own quite a few quality lenses for my Hasselblad, Nikon, Leica cameras and ONLY the 'texture' as I call it changes to my eye - i.e. film and digital have different flavours that's it... same with all this SDR and HDR and 'lighting for it' ....eh.......what the hell is going on....is this the 'masterclass' and 'buy my course with this 20% off token' trying to pull wool over our eyes with pseudo revelations in order for us to become their clients or what hahahah wtf
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anamorphic lens flares just look like some f*uck up to me and always will hahahah.......a long blue streak across the screen.....spherical lens flares are so much more...romantic.....still....each to his/her own. Never shot with anamorphic lenses anyway so how can I possibly enrich the discussion other than as a cinephile....
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Les Bosher (Arri S to PL) Adapter
Stephen Perera replied to Jason Cha's topic in Lenses & Lens Accessories
yeah hope he's ok too!!!!!! Im gonna drop him an email see if I get response! -
Stop a moment and think of Geoff Boyle...
Stephen Perera replied to Frank Wylie's topic in General Discussion
yes Geoff is a loss....I enjoyed his British sensibilities and ways and sense of humour and especially when he was being grumpy! haha Did not have the pleasure of knowing him personally though, only through CML -
Les Bosher (Arri S to PL) Adapter
Stephen Perera replied to Jason Cha's topic in Lenses & Lens Accessories
strange Les has not contacted back yet. he's charming and 'old school' do things the right way. The number is: + 44 1685 811422 -
Beasts Of No Nation
Stephen Perera replied to Manu Delpech's topic in On Screen / Reviews & Observations
ah I see.....the Criterion people do good things eh- 6 replies
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Beasts Of No Nation
Stephen Perera replied to Manu Delpech's topic in On Screen / Reviews & Observations
what does this mean Manu?- 6 replies
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Dune : Alexa LF to 35mm to DI
Stephen Perera replied to Gautam Valluri's topic in On Screen / Reviews & Observations
sounds very interesting...and to me...whatever keeps the film stocks available to buy for nobody's like me in 16mm format is to be applauded and pursued as art is art is art..... -
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Stephen Perera replied to Dom Jaeger's topic in On Screen / Reviews & Observations
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Beasts Of No Nation
Stephen Perera replied to Manu Delpech's topic in On Screen / Reviews & Observations
Masterpiece film. Saw it this weekend for the first time. What a film! definitely recommend this film to anyone with a social conscience. This is what the big powers and their historic, in the shadows influencing, support and sometimes literal installing of puppet governments around the world results in to the societies that suffer 'la mano negra' of their powers......- 6 replies
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So as a huge Wes Anderson fan I would like to promote and remind people of this film coming up. Tech specs: Camera Arricam ST, Cooke S4 and Technovision/Cooke Lenses Laboratory Sixteen19, New York (NY), USA (digital dailies) Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak) Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format) Spherical (source format) Technovision (anamorphic) (source format) Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383) D-Cinema
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Stephen Perera replied to Dom Jaeger's topic in On Screen / Reviews & Observations
I'm soooo bored by excessive camera movement for the hell of it....toys for the boys and all that....lets use a this that and the other......I am particularly narked (good word eh?) by the typical trailer start to all films.....the aerial f*cking drone, establishing, swoop down shot!!! Yours is an excellent, short, precise, technical review Dom. As I said earlier, RED cameras come closest to film to my eyes. Arri Alexa's are wayyyy off (to my eyes) and have that dunno what it is but I can spot it a mile off look about them.