Aleksandar Bracinac

Main tools in post were Grain Removal (Combustion) and Curves in Vegas.

So John, which temperature is proper for nonexposed negative storage? In first post you could see raw captured image from digibeta. Here you can see samples after post production:

Hi John, I bought the film from reseller (not official) for this commercial. For the next I will buy direct from kodak, but I've heard that they are not using proper storage of +5 degrees for negatives. I don't know.... I will try and once when I finish transfer I will post few images here. Also, I will use different telecine and will transfer a piece of this film on other telecine to just to see the difference.

I did telecine to digibeta and capture that uncompressed as I did before with Super35. Anyway, I've found commercial which my collegue done with same camera, lenses and stock. He just did telecine in other facility on Spirit and daVinci and picture is great. Now I know where is the problem. I've seen some S16 transfer in same facility which looks better than mine (also same cam and stock) but not that good as I've seen telecined from Spirit. The Conclusion... I've bought bad stock and did transfer on bad telecine... Finaly... I am lucky with the picture I have. People, thanks a lot for your help!

I realise that the first time when I've seen the picture. Anyway... is there a some visual difference between telecining S16 and S16 to 35mm optical blowup? I've seen some S16 optical to 35mm on Fuji DVD and the picture is crisp and clear both with old Super F stocks and Reala. Even better than Kodak's THE DIFFERENCE DVD interviews (some of them are clean, and the other are grainy). It looks like 35 (except DOF). Otherwise, on Kodak's DVD there are some parts of some TV series shooted on S16 and it looks beautiful also. As that was TV series they are probably did straight S16 to HD/SD transfer . After that I've shot this S16 and I've been dissapointed :(

Jeremy, thank you for the answer and the links. Anyway... I will try to use Vision 2 200T stock on shooting next week to see where is the problem. Anyone can tell me can I overexpose Vision2 200T for 1 stop as V2 500T without degradation? ----- Filip, nice to see you too my friend! I'm from Serbia.

I had first shooting on s16mm 2 months ago. The results are not that good as I did expect in terms of sharpnes and grain. The stock was 7218, camera SR2 and Superspeed primes/Optex 12-120 zoom. Is it possible that telecine suite (some upgraded Quadra) was the problem or maybe I have received bad stock (damaged by x-rays or high temperature). When I've seen original picutre from telecine I've been lost. Fortunately, we get back colours on daVinci and the guy told me that dmin blue was lost. Also... the colorist did some grain removal on daVinci which obviosly doing some bluring and Unsharp Mask effect to reduce grain. Also I've seen on Kodak DVD which is filmed with Vision2 200T 16mm. There is some fine grain, but picture is sharp. On the final I did some grain removal and final grade in combustion and I finish the job very well at the end. Here are some examples: Can someone upload few frames to compare please? Thank you for reading, Aleksandar Bracinac producer/director Serbia