Stephen Perera

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

Thanks for the comments Richard an Mark

Hey Mark...a somewhat mystical reply...please explain hahahah

Hi all, to continue with the fun I've just bought a LOMO tank to process super 8 at home......I have a roll of Tri-X and my question is simple....E6 process just like any other slide film???? Im confide cos I see it being developed as a negative film too......what gives......

...a friend of mine says it was easy for him to win cinematography cos he had experts operating the camera, experts pulling focus, experts rigging, experts lighting...em...I could not argue back

"...it could not be a nostalgic, old look black and white..." I think his opening statement should be taken with a pinch of salt haha I think what Tyler says is probably true.....

Thanks for that Dirk...beautiful tonality and grain to it....very very interesting stock....would you share your thoughts and how you metered for it plus any tips....I keep hearing its holds up to 1.5 stops either way whilst others love how the highlights go off....Im going to shoot a test on my Leica R6.2 with 35mm version and develop in D-96 to see what I think too

A few posts so far and this one had a link: https://www.baitfilm.co.uk

Cinelab London run it with D-96, literally just asked them as I want to shoot a test of this film and develop it myself........

absolutely.....

Hi all....shooting Kodak Eastman Double-X in 16mm format and would welcome any and all feedback on this stock. It's a personal project to enter a local area festival - you gotta do what you gotta do - shooting in old Gibraltar town area during the daytime with mostly available light and maybe a couple of Arri's if anyone is kind enough to open the shutters and let me plug them in hahaha (I'm very persuasive) so nothing complicated......camera will be on sticks mostly apart from a few sweeps on rails...thats it.....shooting with a Cooke Varokinetal 9-50mm on an Aaton XTR XC (no video tap or any electronics, love this camera). The short storyline ends with a (very talented) young couple dancing a tango....sounds corny but hopefully will be great as a final piece!!! Think Dolce+Gabbana sicilian campaign with Monica Belluci...old Gibraltar has that look (also posted this on CML as need loads of feedback)

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