Mark Dunn

Who decides that? You? Negligence by a DoP can't kill anyone.

I'm not sure you do. I'm not an employer-I have been- but I have to make a profit. I have to sell my work for more than it costs to produce. That's profit. Am I cheating my suppliers by paying them less than I charge? Does that make me, what, 49%, 51% capitalist, or are you just changing the percentages to justify your own interpretation?

But I do both. I do the work, and run the business. If I don't make a profit, I have no earnings. How does that fit in?

To Have and Have Not (1944) Oops, sorry no, Hoagy's playing a grand.

It's not fogging through the gate. That wouldn't affect the rebates. It's edge fogging, so a pre- or post-camera problem. Try inverting that photo in Photoshop or whatever. You'll probably be able to see how far it encroaches into the frame.

Aside from the complication of making a splice in the dark, I wouldn't want it going through the camera and potentially jamming or losing the loop.

No, you do get a certain amount as a loading allowance. Kodak actually specify how much it is On a 100' 16mm spool the extra length also protects the bulk of the film from daylight penetration past the spool flanges. Something like 5 or 6' each end, IIRC.

1) Not Cinemascope as such, no, but Panavision and so on. There haven't been cut-in optical dissolves since, I'd say, about 1960 if not earlier- they're all A and B cut from then on. You can see the difference.

If you think profits should be illegal, how do I, a small business owner, get by? Profits are my wages. Who should own them? I use my private property to generate profits. Should I not own the tools of my trade? Never mind grand sweeping statements or manifestos. Answer the particular. What about the individual self- employed businessman, you or me?

Yes you do in this instance, but not for that reason. This is a cheap remark referring to another thread which apparently must now infect this one.

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Sorry, forgot to quote. Seems as if I'm repeating Richard but I started typing first and I'm slow. Phil, are you perchance confusing or conflating turnover, profit and proceeds? I'm entitled, (sorry if you don't like the word, but it has its usual meaning here) to all the profits of my business, after tax, and it's my, er, business what I do with them. Of course I must first pay my cost of sales and overheads, which would of course include employee wages if I had any. They would get paid first, naturally, before I saw any profit, and they would bear none of my risk of not making a profit, which is my wages. That risk I hope to be rewarded for, in the form of profits, over and above what I might have earned as an employee for that work.

What's an onion skin?

You didn't say all, you said 'the lion's share'.

You only need to run the film off once. 35mm. is double-perf so the wind doesn't change. Of course you won't get four full 100' daylight loads as there won't be enough leader.

This forum isn't your worker-controlled socialist paradise yet. You don't get to say who comments and who doesn't.

He is if it's his picture.

I'll add the obvious- if you can see them, zoom in and look at the catchlights in the eyes. You can often get an idea of the angle and nature of the light source. You can see a hint of the fill in Ben Kingsley's eye- I'd agree with Adrian and say a large card, or even a metallised reflector, off to the lower left. Di Caprio is getting a little of it.

A few.

If you fill in your own tax returns and own your own kit, or rent it on your own account, your view is somewhat distorted, in law and in fact.

So how much of your own money did you invest in the energy infrastructure of the UK, then, Maxim? I thought not. That investment comes out of those profits, you know. Like when you buy a piece of equipment out of yours, and claim it as a business expense, and don't pay tax on that profit. No-one tells you how much of your profit you can take out of your business as wages. No-one. What entitles you, or society, to tell anyone else how much they can take out of theirs?

Running out of popcorn here, OK to send a runner to the Odeon for some?

Not that it helps you much, but the Kodak UK website doesn't even suggest that they actually sell anything anymore.

"Barry Lyndon."

Cameras have speed governors, so they're not that dependent on battery voltage, unless they are very flat, in which case the camera will probably just stop dead. But rechargeable NiMH will be far more economical than any expendable.