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What people for example usually use for film sound are sound devices (like the scorpio) or Sonosax. You can also link them for a higher track count. Having said that: The RME UCX II has a standalone recording function if you wanna stick to RME without recording in a DAW

@Steve Switaj Thank you ! I was also thinking about a photo macro lens. The Nikkor is a great advice to try out, lets see. Do you think these will give better results than a extension tube on a cine prime lens, or something similar? I shot a lot on pentax super takumar photo lenes for a vintage but sharp look, but I never owned their 50mm Macro lens...

Thank you for this great information Daniel. Yes , very important to think about the actor being comfortable. And the Angenieux zoom approach is also good to know as a reference how Sergio Leone might have achieved his "italian" closeups. This might be easier to achieve in our case of shooting, where the person is seated in a convoluted situation and it will be hard to get that close to the person with the camera. The Cookes are the prime set, but I wouldn´t mind using another vintage lens with a similar rendering for the ECU , like a Angenieux Zoom or maybe a photo-Lens like a Super Takumar Macro , when the image rendering translates well. But this would involve more testing. Getting a Duclos Extension Tube would maybe be the best option, as I then can play with the different focal lengthes of the prime set to find the adequate size of the ECU.

for the early tests I would use a Blackmagic cinema camera with PL-mount and for the shoot have a Alexa 35.

Daniel J. Fox this is right the ECU closeness I m trying to achieve! This looks very good! I will look into that lens and also into the extention tubes. I guess they would be the best solution when I like to jump between ECU and CU for example without changing the image quality much Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Thanks for that hint and you comment on diopters, I always thought that the image "just cannot get better" when you put something like a diopter in front of it..

Thanks Aapo for the suggestion, I will give both a try. I think I might have to go with a Macro, as the director wants some shots closer than ECU. I was worried to get a different rendering when having a specific lens for these shots that is different than the prime set I use.

I am just looking into options of shooting extreme close ups, like italian close or even closer, and I would like to shoot with prime lenses. What would be your preferred option there? Using a diopter or a specific macro lens? I have a set of speed panchros , but never experimented with diopters with them..

Hi there, I m looking for a rental house and or shop in L.A. I am based in Santa Monica for some weeks and would like to rent some small gear (like a Sachtler Ace, maybe a pl prime lens) and buy some small stuff (some filters, a v-mount battery) Any recommendations? Are there any small but good and not so expensive rental houses around? Thanks a lot !!

Thank you Rob Guerrero , I will look out for these. I guess they might be even harder to find in Europe. I wouldn´t mind a diy solution either building my own battery belt, but it looks like I would try to go with just 12V (which people say is totally fine with 24fps, but I am not sure, still have to try...) or with a converter / voltage stabilizer, but this means more cost and also usually a lot of energy gets lost..

Finding now more great information onthis forum, espcially in this thread , so this sounds very promising in using just regular 12V batteries for this task

As the title says: I would need a battery solution for a newly restaurated arriflex 35 iic. Anyone can recommend me a seller in europe? It has a 24fps motor and I am wondering if running on 16,8 V or 14.4V could also work? I m searching around the net and what i found is this https://www.batteryspace.com/nimhbatterypack168v17v5ah84whforreplacementofdivinglightscooter.aspx though this is not based in eurpe, not sure how high the shipping costs will be, and 17V could already damage the unit? anny suggestions are welcome Thank you !!

This is all great news Brian Drysdale! I love the flexible layout. I do my audio work with a DAW, but I understand people want to manipulate audio as well in the same program... My main problem with Lightworks (running it on different flavors of linux) was stability: for me personally I have no need for more features, just less offline media, crash issues, workarounds etc.. ... if this is solved, this is the best NLE for me on the market.

here is one user! :) and curious as well if people keep using it or only the hard core lightworks fans? I think and hope this is really good news. and looking forward to the next beta release to see how the new dynamics will reflect in the development speed (which imo was very slow and incomplete in the last beta process ...)

I own an arriflex 35 iic and I am getting it restored by a skilled camera engineer right now. The question that arose was: Should I keep the camera at 24fps or tweak the motor to run 25 fps? As I digitally shoot mostly on 25, and the shot footage will most likely get digitized and incorporated in projects mostly shot digital, I thought this could be an option. On the other hand I would also like the camera to run at its intended speed(s) , and maybe rent it out once in a while. So I am looking for some advice here... [also on the long run I am looking for a flat base motor with maybe varying speeds, any "economic" suggestion for that is also welcome..] Thank you!

so thank you for the suggestions, looks like I go with the ciecio from ebay. The wooden camera mounting mechanism I do like very much, but is too pricey for me atm..