Nook Kim

We, ACAM (www.acam.co.kr) are a respected camera rental house based in South Korea. This camera has been part of our rental fleet and has been very well maintained. Please PM me with any questions. 1. Name of the item Arricam ST package including: Arricam ST Body Studio Mask Frameglow Back Load Adapter Arricam ST Video System NTSC Studio Camera Handle (3 piece) Studio Read Out Medium Extension Case for Arricam ST 2. Descriptions/Condition/Picture(s) of the item We purchased these items as brand new. They have been always serviced properly by qualified technicians at Gecko-Cam and maintained very well by our camera technician. I'd give it an 8 out of 10. 3. Your (item's) location Seoul, South Korea 4. Purchase date (mm/dd/yy) Purchased as new in October, 2002 (S/N: #6542) 5. Price of the item / shipping method Price is negotiable and the shipping method will be discussed with the buyer. *Note: We are also looking for some items to trade our cameras for: Arri 19mm Mattebox Arri 19mm FF Sachtler 9+9 Head Tri-Pod Big Tri-Pod Baby Arri Ultra Prime Lens Set (16, 24, 32, 50, 85, 135) 6. Method of payment Can be discussed, but we will only accept what's safe for both parties. Please PM me if interested. Best,

We, ACAM (www.acam.co.kr) are a respected camera rental house based in South Korea. This camera has been part of our rental fleet and has been very well maintained. Please PM me with any questions. 1. Name of the item Arriflex 535B Package including: ARRIflex 535B Body Anamorphic Finder Eyepiece 10 times with Eyecup Format Mask Universal (silent) Ground Glass S35 1:2.35 ARRIGLOW - Mask S35 1:2.35 Cable KC-20 19mm bridgeplate with rods (2) 1000' magazines (2) Case magazines 1000ft (3) 400' magazines (2) 400' lightweight magazines (2) Case magazines 400ft IVS NTSC Video assist Cable RS 535B Custom Cases 2. Descriptions/Condition/Picture(s) of the item These items have been maintained very well by our camera technician and serviced properly by qualified technicians at Gecko-Cam, Germany. As matter of fact, this package is being serviced by Gecko-Cam at the moment. I'd give it an 8 out of 10. 3. Item's location Gecko-Cam, Munich, Germany 4. Purchase date (mm/dd/yy) Purchased as used in July 2006 (S/N: #5046) 5. Price of the item / shipping method Price is negotiable and the shipping method will be discussed with the buyer. This package will likely be shipped directly from Arri service center in Germany. *Note: We are also looking for some items to trade our cameras for: Arri 19mm Mattebox Arri 19mm FF Sachtler 9+9 Head Tri-Pod Big Tri-Pod Baby Arri Ultra Prime Lens Set (16, 24, 32, 50, 85, 135) 6. Method of payment Can be discussed, but we will only accept what's safe for both parties. Please PM me if interested. Best, Nook Kim

We, ACAM (www.acam.co.kr) are a respected camera rental house based in South Korea. This camera has been part of our rental fleet and has been very well maintained. Please PM me with any questions. 1. Name of the item Arriflex 535AB Package including: Camera 35 Arri 535A 19mm Bridgeplate IVS NTSC Video Assist (3) Magazines 400ft Eyepiece Extension FE3 CCU Unit w/ Cable 2. Descriptions/Condition/Picture(s) of the item These items have been maintained very well by our camera technician and serviced properly by qualified technicians at Gecko-Cam in Germany. I'd give it an 8 out of 10. 3. Item's Location Seoul, Korea 4. Purchase date (mm/dd/yy) Purchased as used in October, 2005 (S/N: #1040) 5. Price of the item / shipping method Price is negotiable and the shipping method will be discussed with the buyer. *Note: We are also looking for some items to trade our cameras for: Arri 19mm Mattebox Arri 19mm FF Sachtler 9+9 Head Tri-Pod Big Tri-Pod Baby Arri Ultra Prime Lens Set (16, 24, 32, 50, 85, 135) 6. Method of payment Can be discussed, but we will only accept what's safe for both parties. Please PM me if interested. Best, Nook Kim

Hi, Regarding making the subject pop out, have you considered having the background (exterior through the window) over-exposed? You mentioned there will be some air-plains seen outside the window, so this may not help you at all, but I thought I'd bring it up. As others have suggested, depending on the camera angle, it sounds like you could use the sun light hitting the subject as your key/kick and fill it with bounced light off of bounce cards, muslin, etc. By the way, muslins are white cloth material you can get from fabric stores or online. Googling the word should bring up more than a few online stores that carry different types (transparency, etc) of muslin. They might also be cheaper than local stores and also carry large sizes. Hope this helps. Regards, Nook Kim www.nookkim.com

That's a "good-to-know" thing. Thanks Tom. Nook

Thanks Schultz, I will have to try that when I get back from my vacation. As I mentioned before, I find the camera's menu quite confusing and difficult to navigate. I had never thought of formatting the memory stick "in camera," which makes sense to me. Thanks and I will update here later on. Nook Kim I apologize for my ignorance, but what do you mean by "info- test out?" Nook

Huh..? So, what I have on my tapes is 1440x1080? I've never heard of this. I want to say it's still 1920x1080. If it's 1440x1080, it wouldn't be any close to 16:9 at all.

Does anyone know how to open the gamma settings, which I have in CvpFileEditor, in text format? I failed to load the gamma settings onto the camera from a memory stick, and people say there's a way to print out the settings in details so I could just manually set up the gamma settings in camera. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks for your help, David. However, it doesn't seem that the web-site has the info that we need to figure out how to extract the text file out of the film gamma setting files. I will go ahead and start a new thread on that.

I was meaning that I couldn't see the text file that had the details of the specific gamma setting that I had in the CvpFileEditor. Since I couldn't manage to load the data to the camera through a memory stick, I wanted to get a hold of that text file so I could manually adjust the gamma setting in camera. I still don't know how to get a hold of that text file, though.

That's exactly what I wanted to do and tried, but I couldn't find, in CvpFileEditor, the menu settings for the film gamma setting that I had. Do you know, by chance, how to pull that menu settings, David?

Yes, Tim. That's what I had to do. Also, I had a waist belt to protect my back from 20 days of shooting. However, it was still hurting my back after so much hours of consistant shooting. I couldn't believe the specs that Sony has for the camera. It says the camera weighs only 17 pounds including the standard lens and a battery. It felt more like 40 plus. Also, when the camera was on our jib (for the flash-backs and dream sequence, we shot with a jib-arm), it balanced about 57.5 pounds. Considering the tri-pod head that we had on the jib, I'm guessing the camera was about 40 plus.

Hello Cinematography.com folks, We've just finished shooting a 22 min. TV pilot, that we will be showing at festivals and pitching to broadcasters in a hope to get picked up. Anyway, it was my first time shooting with F900. I wanted to add the film gamma setting that I got from the CVPfileeditor. However, the camera wouldn't read the memory stick that I had the data on. I asked around, and people were telling me it probably had to do with the version of the camera. I checked, in camera, how old the camera was, and it was manufactured in 2001, so five years old. I've tried a couple different memory sticks as well, but that didn't help, either. After trying all different things that I could think of, we've decided to shoot rather clean video and fix everything in color correction. I really wanted to make a certain look in camera to begin with, but the schedule didn't really allow us to do so. We were shooting in 23.98Psf with 60 shutter speed to add a bit more film like look since the style of the show was hand-held with fast pan, tilt, and zoom. Similar to the one appears on the TV show, The Office. I'm used to dealing with the menu settings in Panasonic cameras, like SDX-900 and Vari-Cam, which I think are more straight forward, so easy to navigate. I found the menu setting of F900 a little bit confusing although I found myself got used to it as the time went on. Also, I've found the shoulder mount of the camera was really uncomfortable. I haven't really looked into if there is any product to compensate that pain on my shoulder, but I thought Sony could do a better job on making it better, like Panasonic cameras are. Nevertheless, the image that we were seeing on set was really nice, and we all were satisfied with the image. I must admit that some of the footage that we got looked really like film shot on 35mm. I just can't wait to see what it's capable of when it comes down to color correction. Nook Kim Savannah, GA

Hi guys, After reading this discussion, I couldn't leave without a little comment. I really don't understand why a really knowledgeable person has to get attacked by people who know a lot less. I'm a kind of person, like Häakon, that tries to do a research to actually figure out the facts myself before *assuming* things. It just seems that he was blamed for knowing more about the camera. As Häakon said, everything that are talked here can be answered by doing a little surfing on the web. Go to www.dvxuser.com, for instance. Thanks Häakon, by the way, for correcting grammar on one post. There are some people who don't really care how their posts appear. Nook