Geffen Avraham

You will need two FX3s, one regular and one full spectrum. I have some stereotec rigs just like above and would be happy to sell one, but it’s huge and heavy

never knew there was a mitchell mk 3! also fascinating to compare the price list to today! a set of 7 super baltars was $7902 back then, which is about $57K in today's money - about $8100 per lens. at this time there is a rehoused set of 8 super baltars going for about $65K - or about $8100 per lens!

what is going on with the production design for this film? the never-released chinese underwater epic "Empires of the Deep", one of the most incompetent big-budget movies of all time, at least built real floating Greek triremes. Nolan is renting preexisting viking ship replicas that aren't greek at all. I'd expect this from a made-for-TV version - but even Netflix's live action One Piece built custom ships. The armor looks like it's from Spirit Halloween as well. In any other movie, I'd relax and expect them to augment it with CGI - but not this one. Nolan seems to be using a new blimped IMAX camera to make this the first feature filmed entirely on 15/70 - but all the IMAX film in the world can't salvage nonexistent production design. Below, the trireme from Empires of the Deep.

The advantage of the Elephant Ear is the 2000ft mag - gives you 11 minutes of runtime. But if you're shooting Vista with only a 1000ft mag, then 5/70 will record longer and be more convenient.

Thank you! Do you know where I might be able to find any documentation on this camera?

Two of these showed up at Community Thrift in San Francisco a few weeks ago, and I picked one up yesterday. American Cinematographer in 1986 says: Seems like this was used in the 80s to print CGI to film! Looking inside, I saw a 2-phase stepper motor with what appears to be a glued-on optical encoder. The magazine feed and takeup are driven by Japan Servo 5000rpm DC motors with 10:1 gear reductions. There do not seem to be an actual computer inside - this is good! With a bit of help and experimentation, I can probably recreate the original controller, which I don't have, with a common MCU. Anyone ever worked with one of these, or have any docs for it? Here is the camera. Is it actually the PC-35 described in ASC mag? What kind of magazine does it take? A standard 400ft Mitchell?

it seems there are several ef to rf speedboosters - metabones, meike, kipon, and canon. i would ideally like to test as many as i can.

From looking at sharegrid lens tests, both the 18mm Master Prime t1.3 and 20mm Sigma t1.5 look pretty sharp wide open. What happens when you boost the Sigma down to a 14mm f1.0 - and then stop it down to match the Master Prime? This can be done with the EF mount version of the lens and a Raptor or Venice. Can it go head-to-head with the master prime? Has anyone ever tested something like this?

very excited to learn more about this camera!

I also hear that Corbet will be making his next feature on 8/65. Oh, how nice it would be to have a quiet self-blimped 865 camera... Nolan would never have to switch aspect ratios again. Anyone know how loud a System 65 is at 32fps, as a reference for whether this is possible?

Adrien Brody certainly deserved that Oscar, and Lol did a masterful job too. But yes, that film needed an ending... Do we know if all the dialogue closeups were shot on 3-perf, or did they ever use a blimp? If I'm not wrong, the title of "first all-Vista film in 50+ years" is still up for the taking. There were 19 years between Hamlet and The Hateful Eight without any all-65mm narrative features, but Vista is coming back from a much longer hiatus.

I've been making some cheeseplates for the ACL lately, I can probably make a cage if you show me what you need.

This would be great! Please include big color charts, I am planning on making an open-source program soon for matching different cameras and stocks based on color charts, this would be a huge resource!

exactly. i feel like too often, people say "it was an intentional choice by the director/dp", as if that makes them immune to criticism. the opposite! intentional choices can and should be criticized! for example, every decision made by the writers and directors of the live action dragon ball z movie, or the live action last airbender movie!