Stephen Perera

.......for what its worth I have always pointed the dome towards the source as well as that gives you the best idea of the light wrapping around a face as a key light fr example....then you think about how to dial up or down the exposure based on how you perceive the wrap of light and fall off in your key areas

....so the 'famous' Wes Anderson film camera moves will not give you the horrible skew effect you see in digital cameras on a film camera then right? Im wondering whether this will happen on my 180 degree shutter Aaton XTR 16mm

this is really useful Ive found! http://www.leefilters.com/lighting/mired-shift-calculator.html

hi all....film will be scanned and edited etc in DaVinci by me....yes I have Rosco and Lee myself already but the ones in question

Hi all.....I am prepping a project and to cut a long story short my key light colour temp measures 4900k without reflectors and 4600k with a basic reflector (manufacturer claims 5000k) ....what gel should I stick over it to use with Vision3 500T. Wratten #85B corrects 5500k to 3200k.....so as my light measures from 4600 to 4900k should I use that or is the is the user 1000k difference small? also, can anyone recommend a particular manufacture and set of gels to buy for lights

thanks Bruce you have a great IMDB list indeed to know what you are talking about!!!!

yeah pretty much get used to it fast Im finding....

hahahahaha good one.....its David Bailey that said that I forget to credit him hahahah.....

...another old negative....this time Hasselblad shot of a Barbary Macaque here in Gibraltar....Kodak Tmax 400 film....hand held shot....handheld meter.....contemplating the subject....moment of truth....click.....only another 6 frames left on my 12 frame roll.....its a way of working....a way of looking through a viewfinder...that's film.....a discipline.....I want to feel the same way creating motion images.....

thanks Robin but shooting digital is visual communism in my eyes and it doesn't move nor inspire me...... I am 51 and trained in the darkroom....developing my own rolls, printing images with enlargers...dodging...burning...developing in trays and all the rest of it.....there is NOTHING like it.....I particularly have loads of experience scanning photographic film actually...as a designer I bought my own drum scanner and scanned all images for my brochures and whatever I had to do.....I love film... Take the attached image for instance.....this is a negative I found of my late grandfather.....its a shot I took as a first year degree student in my Graphic design course part of a project I did.....the negative was perfect.....it's from 1985.....shot on Kodak Tri-X, developed by me back in the day......I re-scanned it with JOY.....relived the memories of the man I spent so much time with....my grandfather.....PRICELESS.....

.....so shooting film in motion picture cameras means when you start rolling you see the effect of the film passing in front of the gate and you get a 'motion blur' images in your viewfinder (for want of a better technical term!)....if you have your eye in the viewfinder that is.....one-man band mode of course .....so does this mean camera movements are always pre-planned or should you just practice focusing the 'blurred' viewfinder image cos with time you get used to it and you can flow with the scene better??? thanks for your time everyone....look forward to getting some good tips

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hahaha of course.....best to get hit with a tennis ball in the head than the pole and also the sound will be less drastic...I always love to see how on film sets people just use common sense and whatever is at hand which is my way of doing things...thanks....its a good clip to watch by the way...those huge 65mm panavisions

yes ai agree only cost me like 35 euros so nice decorative piece at home.....so....anyone recommend where to get another one and which model....I want manual aperture; 18 and 24fps plus a good lens...don't need in camera metre etc

i agree with you Bas.....

....was watching some BTS of the Murder On The Orient Express film on youtube and there was this part where it should the audio guy with the boom pole and he had a tennis ball at the end of the pole by his hand! whats this all about haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SxOh9xaE6M

I didn't for a second think of underexposure as thats the reality of light....when its dark in a room....its em dark....so i thought it was all spot on......I thought it was beautifully filmed but found the story itself less great....the acting great too...its an 8/10 for me

.....thanks for the advice everyone....

haha excellent.....I've thought about it and patches of carpet would do the trick.....they have rubber underneath which would be non-slip and of course the top layer is what it is......

thanks everyone for the tips! but sorry what is 'an apple box (1/2, 1/4 pancake etc)......

Hi all....when joining the dolly track I notice the camera steps when it goes over the joint...very slight....is this normal or should it be totally smooth even over joints

Thanks for the help eveyone

My Canon 518 SV has an auto and manual aperture function but the diaphragm does not move beyond being wide open even though I can adjust the needle on the viewfinder from f1.8 to f32......for me on any camera it means the aperture blades are stuck....is this so on tis camera? or is this some super8mm kind of way of doing things where the camera needs to have film in it for everything to work haha

Thanks for the information much appreciated

as OP is located in UK no better man then Allan Giles....he's a great guy too.... albernyrestorations@gmail.com