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

Test out is a video output on the camera. You can set it up to show what you want on a monitor. F-stop, Zebras and so on. I would think you can do that on this camera, though it really doesn't help with the problem I suppose.

 

It can be used to log time code.

 

I use it as a viewfinder output for a monitor that attches to the top of my camera.

 

The regular Monitor out doesn't let you see all the extra info.

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

Can your read memory card info- test out?

I apologize for my ignorance, but what do you mean by "info- test out?"

Nook

Are you sure? AFAIK the 900 is 1920x1080. Its just that what gets laid down to tape is 1440x1080.

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.

You could try looking on this site for some answers:

http://www.memorystick.com/en/ms/index.html

 

I know that there's a way of reading the text on a computer with a memory stick card reader, which I think is just in ASCII.

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.

Do you mean that you couldn't read the file or that the Gamma settings weren't listed?

 

I haven't had to read one of those memory sticks myself by I heard that the text could be displayed on a laptop.

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.

You could have manually inputted the menu settings if you couldn't download the memory stick.

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?

Try a folded towel on your shoulder. It's more effective than any purpose-built pad I've seen.

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