Chaa Ustaoğlu

Hello everyone! I'm DPing a short film that will be shot on a hybrid digital (Alexa mini LF) and super 16mm format in 3 weeks time. The 16mm will be shot on a 16SR(1) that a dear friend of mine recently bought and got modulated to super 16. The camera, however, does not have a video tap to allow us to use a video assist. And we really need one. My friend has bought a video tap, but removing the camera's exposure meter and soldering that in will be too complicated / time-consuming a task to complete in time for this shoot in 3 weeks' time. Instead, our current plan to bypass this problem is to 3D print a makeshift attachment that we can put onto the viewfinder eyepiece, that will allow us to attach a small CCTV camera through which we can get a feed for our video assist. However, time is running short and there may not be time to try out and troubleshoot this idea. In the meantime, I was wondering if any hero here might already have made such a mechanism and could help me out? I'd hugely appreciate it if so. Any other ideas if anyone has them would also be warmly welcomed 🙂 Thanks all in advance, Chaa.

Thank you both 🙂

Hey guys, I have an inkling about the answer to this question but was hoping someone more experienced might be able to remove all uncertainties 🙂 Do the Lightbridge CRLS reflectors change the colour of the light you bounce into them at all? I would think not really since the material on a CRLS reflector doesn't have a particular colour, but just wanted to make sure. Reason I ask is because I want a specific colour filling into the room through a window, and will obtain the necessary Rosco / Lee colour gel to cover my lighting fixture (likely a Nanlux 1200B with FL-35 fresnel) for this. For some set ups outside certain rooms I will be using the CRLS (1m x 1m) reflector, whilst for others I won't. But I would like full consistency in the colour of the light that ultimately makes it into the room from my fixture. I'm wondering if I might need to acquire x2 slightly different coloured gels that will compensate for any difference from bouncing into CRLS, or if it will be such a minuscule difference that it won't matter. Any ideas / suggestions greatly welcomed! Thanks in advance, Chaa.