Stephen Perera

Tarantino used it in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Hey Karim...the compression has killed the beauty of the grain......will happily send it out to anyone interested once I know what Im doing with it and I lock the final edit with the correct 'thank yous' etc etc.....H265 output is small files and good quality for example The edit and title cards DaVinci Resolve 16 (free version)...somebody tried to convince me to add fake film glitch on the text but i thought too gimmicky....some said text too sharp and again....I thought the compression will take the edge off anyway so not an issue

hope you watched the clip on Vimeo...thanks for the responses

Thanks for watching Dan...the first person haha.....em I don't know what to do with it.....local Government or local support groups for the cause are interested in it without seeing it yet........dont know whether they would want to water it down or change it so Im hesitant as I want to do it as I see it..... I simply did it as a personal statement.....i.e. bought the film, shot it, sent it to Cinelab London and paid all associated costs from my own pocket as like what they call a 'passion project'

Thanks for all the comments...appreciate the positivity.....Watch the piece here Password: violence

Password: violence

So its sort of ready......perhaps some of you would be kind enough to watch and see what you think....needs audio to be up......it's a piece against violence to women.....dont know what Im going to do with it yet....local Government interested in it but don't want to compromise or water it down.....local support groups as well.....

I shot 16mm 100ft rolls of 50D, 250D and Double X, some rolls of these many months ago, kept it in the fridge...sent it to UK a few weeks ago to Cinelab London...went through 2 hand luggage X-rays in airports and the film came back great....

Hey Tyler, yes this new footage is to go with the other footage I bored you all with last time.....the Governor's Residence Banquet hall was unavailable for filming as the roof had to be taken off for replacement so the whole thing was delayed for me for like 6 months......still, i insisted I had to film in there to elevate the final product as we can see Gibraltar Crystal product in use in Gibraltar's most famous (one of) buildings and tourists....especially Americans...love anything to do with British Royal family and all the rest of it...... oh and yes I know the candles went a bit wonky on the stills I attached earlier as I did my dolly track move up the 8m long table......I was shooting ONE 100ft roll of 250D in there and was at literally 1:1 ratio get it right and move on to next shot....the film discipline so to speak as I see it when there are no 'people' in there

...and now the 500T stock...yes I'm left-eyed and i go lop-sided a bit when I frame up hahah. I shoot Hasselblad film system for pro jobs and my horizon is em suspect at times!

this shows the famous KEYS of Gibraltar....back then the fortress of the Rock was secured by 4 main gates!

and another why not heh heh

...shot at the Governor of Gibraltar's residence inside the historic Banquet Hall with the table set up with Gibraltar Crystal (my client) crystalware.....obviously I was inspired in terms of the lighting I set up inside by Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) and I did a rack focus inspired by but nowhere near as cool as Hagen Bogdanski did in The Young Victoria....

...so this is the other project Im doing....some of it I've posted before but here is new stuff....I think its always useful to see footage stills to see the look and vibe of 16mm

I particularly like the tones in this still.....as I said Im not even near being a cinematographer like the rest of you here but in my opinion digital just doesn't do B/W like film.....

P.S. My Eastman Double X was scanned to 2K on an ARRISCAN full gate. My contact was the wonderful Sonji Clarke at Cinelab London.....

just posted about it myself.....with sample stills. I shot on an Aaton and a Cooke Varokinetal 9-50mm standard 16mm

...for what its worth coming from me, not a cinematographer by any stretch of the imagination BUT a stills film photographer for 3 decades...the stock is beautiful with the correct metering/exposure as it does NOT have that much latitude compared to say Kodak TMax 400 or Tr-X in stills. I would say its great for studio conditions / lighting and outdoors you have to watch the highlights don't blow so much.....I would shoot at 1 to 1.5 stops over and not more depending on contrast of the scene...... Overall the stock grain to my taste is beautiful and the tonality is sublime.....love it......works great with shadows to my taste.....overall the film has that old school 'metallic' greyscale look to it I love...... Set key light at T4 and that was it...camera on a Sachtler fluid head....think I shot from 40-50mm on the zoom lens throughout...damn I always forget to take notes. I rated the film at 200asa ........oh the footage is a piece on violence against women.....the girl is a real victim and the filming was 'hard' to say the least as she was all over the place with emotions and anxiety and all sorts in between.....keeping her 'focused' was not easy....BUT she delivered something incredible.....

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Hi all, got the footage back from Cinelab London as .dpx files for the Eastman Double X. Had it scanned at 2K full gate (standard 16mm) off my Aaton XTR XC (no electronics not even a film counter telling me how much film has been used haha). Lens a Cooke Varokinetal 9-50mm T2.2 zoom. Shot with a rectangular soft box about half a metre away from the girl and in front of a white background I wanted to leave as a 'grey'. Shot it in my living room at home! Attached some stills.....hope you like the 'look' of the stock and go out and shoot with it!

Long live film indeed!

Cinelab London have literally just called me and confirmed the film has processed well and there is no sign at all of x ray damage......I sent over Vision3 50D, 250D and Kodak Eastman Double X 16mm film and the film went through two airport hand luggage scans......Gibraltar airport and malaga airport plus anything DHL might or may not have done with the package. The film was picked up from a hotel and London and delivered to them.

ha was just about to post on this issue.......latest info I have is that always take as hand luggage not in the 'luggage hold' and should be fine.....also that the effect is cumulative....if you travel and have 15 x-ray scans then its more likely to be an issue...was also reading about the new type of 'scanners' that are being introduced in the USA for example..... https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/tsa-tests-scanners-that-allow-travelers-to-keep-electronics-and-liquids-in-their-bags-when-going-through-airport-security/2018/08/12/06f5d3fa-9cb8-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ade9bc3b42d3

Standard 16mm frame is super....love it....have an Aaton XTR XC and Im not converting it to super 16mm.....ironically social media is great with this format....think about it.....on phones and tablets etc looks great