Mr. Macgregor

I wonder ho can i set exposure for a distant shot with small lights, like a view of the night horizon in a city or a moon shot. How should i use the lightmeter. How should i read it under those circumstances. It seems to me that in most cases i will get no recording, and if i get something by using the lightmeter viewfinder i will get a bad metering since i am looking at the lights. So?

http://www.macgregor.autoecstasy.com/wheat.mov Cyprus. 2006. Macgregor. :P

Therefore, the posprocessing chip boards are the responsable for the quality increase.

But lowering the contrast (making the blacks less black) is not the same as gaining latitude. So in fact, with less contrast we can make better bleach bypass processes or any special lab effect that involves our negative to have less stops. But since DI era is the bleach bypass still done?What if we shot normally, decrease the black level during DI to go to grey and then apply the bleach bypass when creating the final internegative?

Are you sure? I read the CCDs are the same in both models. maybe the info was wrong or the post processing chips make the difference.

We went out of the topic here, but still this is interesting: Is the flashing process or the Varicon tool still worth the effort or we can skip that using modern DI? What do you think?

Sorry i made a mistake, i said arriglow but i mean the other arri product that obviously is the same as the product you are mentioning. I´ve seen this in action. But i have never seen the effect that it makes. I mean, i would love to see the same image with and without the arriglow to see how the black level is changed. Since kondji used bleach bypass in seven he used this glow mechanism to lower the contrast since the chemical process takes away a lot of stops.

What is panaflasher? something like the arriglow?

Hello, Does anyone know what lenses did Kondji use in Seven? For sure it is spherical but i was wondering if someone had the cinematographer issue were they wrote about it. Thank you very much.

Ooops. i put this thread in the wrong forum. Could the administrator move it to the "critique my work" forum, please? ;)

What does "show off" mean?

Hello. We shot this with the huge crew of 2 people (including myself) and a dvx100e. Edited in Vegas. Thanks for your comments. :lol:

We had a great time shooting this: http://cinemekserve.temp.powweb.com/demos/...similo.h264.mov (59 mb) Quicktime 7, guys. Or Windows media at lower quality: http://cinemekserve.temp.powweb.com/demos/...egor/similo.wmv (45 mb) This was shoot at almost Zero budget. I hope you like it and i will be please to answer questions. Shoot in miniDV with G35 adapter, very natural light, nto very hard CC on it. I think it is the best thing i have done in PAL. This shots were done during the magic hour. With the sea at the left, and volcanic desert at the right. We only had a 20 minute chance to shoot this scene. A white reflector is on the right, to create that mistery light (michael Bay style). The car scene. We wanted to shoot this at dusk. They are in a futuristic Antartic, so dusks take a lot of time there. Also the landscape needed that dark atmosphere. They are in a new Merc SLK. And it was shooting on the director´s garage. As you can see i was very ingluenced by Code46 so i wanted to make a tribute shot here to that movie. The white set. 1000W X2 reflected in the ceiling. That is all. Naked girls do the rest. Back to location again. We were running out of light here, so silver reflec

Do you recommend me any 10 or 12 mm zeiss wide angle that could fit in this set and that shows no barrel distorsion? :lol:

Is there a wider lense than 18mm in this set?

Hello. I´m sure people here have worked with these lenses and i was wondering what could you tell me about them in terms such as sharpness, color, resolution, breathing, aberration, barrel distorsion and anything remarcable about them. Is it safe to work at full aperture? What T number have you recommend or do you recommend me? Thanks! :D

This is an amazing great answer. SHould be in FAQ for its clarity and advices. :D

That first scene really really impressed me. It is not just the long run, but the sound, the crying woman, and the screamings. We´ve seen similar things in Saving private ryan and Strange days, but Narc is an astoundishing small movie that has become one of my favorites. I still do not know why it is so good to so many people, since the script and the action is nothing better than any standard TVmovie. But it is not. It is hard to make a running shot like this without saking so much the camera that you actually see nothing. The Narc scene is very well done. Cameraman had to be in good shape to do this. Anything bigger than a Arri2C would require to change operator for each take :lol:

As long as I know, Shanghai has always that strange mist. Contamination? Vapors? Something to do with the river? :ph34r:

Ok. It seems super35 seems the best way to go. I will ask for a 3 perf camera so we can even save some money in film. For the day shots i was thinking the same as you Ignacio. We will have tons of light and when working at T2.0 we wont have problems using a slow negative. But maybe i will have to move to fuji for lower prices. Now, the shortfilms ends at night, and i am concerned about this. Because definately this part of the movie will have to be scanned in order to integrate some CGi vehicles in an empty road. Therefore i will need a faster film. So coming from a non grain image, and going to a night scene in the desert that also has to be scanned (and i guess it will add even more grain) makes me worry about grain. About how will the film change look.

If you cannot spend more than $3500, stay with the FX1. It has the best price/quality ratio right now. It is not true progressive, but it does the job well for its price, and once you are on DVD no one can tell this was shoot interlaced. Forget about 24 cineframe mode. It doesn´t work. So either you buy the expensive Z1 that can shoot 25 fps, or buy the FX1, or stay at 30 fps with the american version. The JVC is not good at all, even if it had the same prize as a Z1. Sure it is progressive, but images do not look better in resolution than a Z1 using CF25. Colors are bad, and lense is definetely not good. Batteries last 40 minutes. If you want longer life batteries you will have to pay a LOT more money. Canon XL H1 is great. Resolution. Colors. Endless image settings. Maybe you don´t like the lense, which works as the old XL1 and XL2. The best camera for me. But it costs a lot more. The upcomming HVX from Panasonic. Almost no one has seen footage. Very good camera on the paper. As you know it does not record on HDV tapes. You have to buy their P2 cards. And you will need a lot of them. And they are quite expensive. So in the end you might be: - renting the cards - having spend more money in cards than in the camera itself So, at the end, the camera costs $6000, but you spent $11,000 in the whole set. Still it is a good price for its quality, but this is no longer cheap. And when you think that for $3,000 you can have a FX1 that once it is on DVD it won´t look too distant... :unsure: But, it records in DVCpro HD which is a quite better format than HDV. So this is a great camera if you are shooting shorftilms or commercials or anything that you do not need to record long shots and have access to a portable hard drive or laptop. I personally think that people should not buy cameras that go beyond $6000 unless they are shooting almost every single day of the year, it is usually a better option to rent the equipment. That gives you the opportunity to use the lastest tools. And camera is not the only piece of equipment. Think about lights, transportation, crew, editing... I hope it helps...

May i ask why did you shoot the background in B&W? Also, was the background footage shoot very static with a car mount or hand held? Did you take care of using same lense? Did you defocused the 35mm projector at the stage? Along the movie we can see shots done in video, or at least they look like video. Were these done with some cheap DV camera? Were the night scenes in the streets of Shanghai done without additional lighting? Sorry i do not have access to old American Cinematographer magazines so i cannot read the report. As far as i know the movie was shot with an Aaton 35-3 and an Arriflex 435 ES at S35mm 3 perf. Is this information correct? Thanks! :)

Sorry. I think i know what "2 4ft 4banks with 5600K tubes" are. You are talking a about 2 boxes with 60 cm fluorescent tubes in rows of 4, right? Like kinoflows. What is "flagged"? What were the grain issues? Was the backprojection done with a 35mm projector or HD? Did you make any measurements before shooting the exteriors for this scene in order to have the correct amount of bluring and the same lense? Did you remove the windows? And most important: the camera and car movement works beautifully. How was this achieved? The motion is very real. Was the camera handheld? Was the car on some platform? Thank you so much. This movie have been a real inspiration for my work for the past time. :lol:

Sorry I meant i was not a professional in the film industry because all the fiction films that i have done were shortfilms stuff, which as you know, is not usually paid. Maybe it was my mistake. I am not an englishman as you can see. :blink:

It all depends in what you mean with amateur. I studied cinematography for 2 years. I studied for 5 years at collage. I have worked in production companies for a while. I have shot many shortfilms some in DV, some in HD, many in 16mm and some in 35mm. I have shot some comercials in S35 as well Pro35+F750p. I have edited tons of videos at HD resolution. I have worked almost 2 years as digital creator and 3d designer. I have won half a dozen awards at festivals for best cinematography. But NO, i have not ever worked in a movie yet. Sorry. :( Note: concept car will be built with the help of a concept car designer company, which will help to reduce around 80-90% of the price that you mentioned, which is more or less what a concept car costs. Also $300,000 concept cars are built to be innovative. Ours only need to look good and run at 100km/h. We do not need fiber carbon body shell, nor electronic drive steering wheel, no HUD displays, no ESP, no hybrid engine, no nothing.