Stephen Perera

I'm gonna stock up on my fave Portra 800 film for my hasselblad work thats for sure...the most expensive colour negative for us photographers....but wow what a film!

i must admit when i first used my Aaton XTR XC 5 years ago when i bought it I was surprised at seeing the flicker.....i expected it to be like an SLR haha when it is in fact a mirrorless in modern tech stills camera parlance......but it didn't bother me at all when I rolled camera as I set my points of focus and used my manual Tilta follow focus ring with hard stops......besides, my camera work was never exactly complicated either.....for those that don't know me I'm a Hasselblad V system 'photographer' and shoot motion 16mm for 'projects' that come up and personal stuff I'm not a DP or near it at all. Im in here to learn and pontificate about the beauty of celluloid film cos its only via the motion picture sales to productions that us photographers will have film to shoot in the future!

ok since we're talking of focus and cine tape etc.....how do these people work.....chicken and egg scenario to my unknowledgeable mind in this case.......so the cine tape says the actor is at 1.6m now from his previous 1.8m.....so the person with the dial quickly shifts the focus.....so there is 'lag'.....always......obviously with practice the person pulling focus knows the actor say has a mark on 1.3m so Im sure they know how fast to 'pull' right? but do they look at their own readings and somehow see if they are matching? perhaps they practice the moves before....well, of course they do.....anyway.......would love to hear from focus pullers on cine tape....perhaps a link to another part of forum?

haha great image!

.......I wonder what would run out first.....the 'resources' to produce 'film' or the resources to make digital cameras and their sensors and all their parafanalia....long live film haha.....good one!

I'm not part of the crowd in thinking this is an intellectual masterpiece.....I think you have to be of the time to realise the impact it may have had......same with Citizen Kane......my love of it is with the cinematography.....the 4:3 format and BW film stock, the texture, the greyscale, the tones, the lighting, and the framing of human faces.....masterful

Bergman said that although he had an idea of what the story meant, he would not share it because he felt that his audience should draw its own conclusions. He hoped the "film would be felt rather than understood." ....seems Christopher Nolan has borrowed a line from Bergman for the magnificent TENET.

Treat yourselves and rewatch PERSONA by Ingmar Bergman. There is always a generation of people who have not seen it yet. Personally, this shot blows me away every time and in general......yes, its all be said a million times but why not again......the 4:3 framing, lighting etc from the Bergman/Nykvist dream team using BW film stock in my year of birth 1966 with its rich, deep blacks and exquisite shadow details just laughs in the face of modern tech. If anyone knows what film stock they used on their Mitchell BNC cameras with spherical lenses (which?) much appreciated if you let us know.

very kind of you to comment thank you Daniel and a happy 2021 to you and the family!

Saw it last night. Superb. Didn’t expect it to be so good as I really know the original film and I was fearing some eye rolls on my part but I was fully immersed and blown away by it. The casting was refreshing I thought. Visually spectacular!!! Many many anamorphic flares which I am sure will be commented upon. The use of film and lighting transported us to the era and at no time did I feel it was all dress up time as for example Wonder Wheel by Woody Allen did, shot on his Sony digital cameras by Storaro and his BAD magic hour all day everywhere light in that film…wtf. As a native Spanish and English speaker I really enjoyed the authenticity of using actual Latinos or whatever one calls them these days so I am not entering into the subtitle debate as I understood it all. It was funny how many swear words etc came from the Puerto Ricans without a single f*ck etc from the English speakers…..the censor screen that comes up before the film start said something about implied bad language hahah wtf as there WAS foul language but hey it got the general audience rating it set out to achieve I guess. in summary……watch it on the big screen! It’s a cinema film for sure.

Will definitely watch this I was not aware of this film of my year of birth 1966 haha….I will humbly give my opinion in due course if it please you my friends

The film is based on the memiors of the daughter played by Dylan Penn of her life and relationship with father played by Sean Penn. It's a father and daughter relationship over time as the main theme obviously notwithstanding the outcome at the end that defines things. I think this is a superb film and trully touching and would recommend it to people in here as we appreciate films on other levels of course. I think the acting deserves awards and the cinematography more than any film I can think of trully takes us back in time with the use of 16mm. What I mean to say is it looks like it was shot at the time not now......

https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/blog-post/flag-day A really excellent film…..excellent acting by father and daughter Penns (and son!) and superb use of 16mm film to transport us to the different eras we go through in the film from start to finish. Chapeau. Highly recommended.

I bought an Aaton XTR XC 4 years ago when I joined this forum - its a model they made with no electronics, apparently the back up camera for when they're on location in remote areas and harsh environments I'm told! It doesn't even have a film counter and i just have the physical marker on the magazine that moves as film passes through to the uptake side haha.....LOVE IT. No video tap, nothing....thats exactly what I wanted as I like to use light metre and look trough the viewfinder......oh and its standard 16mm which is also what I realised i was most happy with as its like shooting my Hasselblad so very very very very comfortable with the framing on standard 16mm.

pictures!!!

Super 16mm /standard 16mm film is THE stand out film 'look' that is most recognisable to trained eyes like us lot in here. I felt the film 'Wendy' was beautiful to look at....'Spencer' as well is a stand out use of 16mm.......I love the format. Ed Lachman is one of the great minds in the cinematography world in my opinion. "If you’ve seen the Todd Haynes’ film Carol these pictures will feel very familiar. Beautifully shot by the cinematographer Ed Lachman, Carol was visually inspired by the work of the late photographer Saul Leiter." https://thatsnotmyage.com/style/being-inspired-by-the-photography-of-saul-leiter/

very informative Aapo thank you.....

Sorry but I very much doubt colour reversal film is more difficult to scan. I have EXTENSIVE experience in scanning film. I bought a drum scanner in the 90s (ScanMate 5000) and 6 years ago a Hasselblad Flextight 646 scanner and slide film is always always always always x 1 billion easier and faster to scan than colour negative. I question this statement and humbly stand to be corrected

I can't argue with what you're saying because I have never shot expired motion picture film....but I would like to question the 'totally different' comment esp taking into account the modern tools we have in colour correction editing. Still....who am I in here to question.....

Buy film and freeze it. I'm shooting Kodak film (photographic) from 2012 and its perfectly fine!!!!....see attached images.

It's a great film visually at the very least. Probably his best in terms of cinematography in my opinion. The mix of Kodak Vision3 colour stock and Kodak Eastman Double-X is superb. The framing is superb. It all confirms how great the 4:3 framing is so great with faces....and if in doubt watch Ingmar Bergman Persona

esta noche me siento a verla!

hermano Miguel....donde puedo ver esto? sale en Tele5, Antena 3 o algo así????

good post will read the links