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Steven Wyatt

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Hello,

 

This probably been posted before, but I wondered if any one could shed any light on the matter. I' m looking into the possibility of shooting in this aspect ratio as opposed to standard 1:78:1. Are there anamorphic lenses in super 16 available to accomplish this? Either that or are there alternative methods such as utilising anamorphic adaptors on the camera to achieve this ratio. Originally I was thinking of using spherical lenses and then cropping either in the lab or in post. The only problem with this is that I do not have access to a 2.35.1 ground glass, which makes shooting a problem.

 

Any suggestions and/or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

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Steven Wyatt

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Technically, you'd need an anamorphic lens with a 1.42X squeeze to exactly fit 2.39 : 1 onto the 1.68 : 1 Super-16 negative. None are made. Currently, your only realistic choice are the standard 2X anamorphic lenses made, which will give you are 3.36 : 1 image, so you'd be cropping the sides to get 2.39 as much as you'd be croping top & bottom to get 2.39 if you shot with normal spherical lenses.

 

Plus you'd have the problem of finding short-enough focal-length 35mm anamorphic lenses to get wide-angle shots on a Super-16 camera.

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Hello,

 

This probably been posted before, but I wondered if any one could shed any light on the matter. I' m looking into the possibility of shooting in this aspect ratio as opposed to standard 1:78:1. Are there anamorphic lenses in super 16 available to accomplish this? Either that or are there alternative methods such as utilising anamorphic adaptors on the camera to achieve this ratio. Originally I was thinking of using spherical lenses and then cropping either in the lab or in post. The only problem with this is that I do not have access to a 2.35.1 ground glass, which makes shooting a problem.

 

Any suggestions and/or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

Regards,

Steven Wyatt

The simplest way of shooting anamorphic in 16mm is to go for regular 16mm insted of super 16mm

and having a anamorphic adaptor on prime lenses, and go for regular 35mm blowup, for theatrical

release print, where youwill get the letterboxed cinemascope of 2.35:1 print,

regarding the ground glass, you can shoot full frame within safe area square mark,

you may not get the desqueezing in the finder, you have to get a bit adapted to the squeezed

image in the viewfinder,

 

Murthy SNB

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The simplest way of shooting anamorphic in 16mm is to go for regular 16mm insted of super 16mm

and having a anamorphic adaptor on prime lenses, and go for regular 35mm blowup, for theatrical

release print, where youwill get the letterboxed cinemascope of 2.35:1 print,

regarding the ground glass, you can shoot full frame within safe area square mark,

you may not get the desqueezing in the finder, you have to get a bit adapted to the squeezed

image in the viewfinder,

 

Murthy SNB

 

Why not try an anamorphic adaptor designed for shooting 16:9 on a 4:3 camera, this will give a 1.33 squeeze resulting in a ratio very close to 1:2.35. (1.33 x 1.66 = 2.20 or 1.33 x 1.78 = 2.35). I think there is a thread about this on one of the forums here...

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Why not try an anamorphic adaptor designed for shooting 16:9 on a 4:3 camera, this will give a 1.33 squeeze resulting in a ratio very close to 1:2.35. (1.33 x 1.66 = 2.20 or 1.33 x 1.78 = 2.35). I think there is a thread about this on one of the forums here...

 

 

Wasn't Last King of Scotland 'scope 2.40 from a mix of Super16 and 35mm ?

 

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I guess this director has done a few 16mm widescreen films using "special anamorphic lenses".

 

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview/japon.htm

 

It was an old 35mm anamorphic attachment borrowed from Gaspar Noe's cameraman.

 

"This director" is a lawyer and used that attachment on just this movie.

Gaspar Noe maybe used it on a couple or so, but 'Irreversible' was SuperScope Super16.

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Why not try an anamorphic adaptor designed for shooting 16:9 on a 4:3 camera, this will give a 1.33 squeeze resulting in a ratio very close to 1:2.35. (1.33 x 1.66 = 2.20 or 1.33 x 1.78 = 2.35). I think there is a thread about this on one of the forums here...

 

I tried this with a panasonic adapter made for the DVX. It worked with wide lenses but not long ones. I was successful with up to my 28mm lens. But when I tried it with a 50mm lens I ended up with some weird color separation. I included a photo below of the result with the 28mm lens. Sorry the image is so dark it was supposed to be a dark scene. I can see if I still have any footage with the 50mm lens if you want to see what problems I had. To answer your question I wouldn't recommend it.

 

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It was an old 35mm anamorphic attachment borrowed from Gaspar Noe's cameraman.

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Gaspar Noe maybe used it on a couple or so, but 'Irreversible' was SuperScope Super16.

Noé's 1998 film Seul contre tous (I Stand Alone) was shot in anamorphic 16 mm - to be specific, I think that was regular 16 mm with a 2x attachment. Could have been that one.

 

The 35mm release print that I projected some years ago was actually just a tiny bit wider than 2.40:1; you could see very small black bars at the top and bottom of the image. (Not as wide as "full" 2.66:1, though.)

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Hello,

 

This probably been posted before, but I wondered if any one could shed any light on the matter. I' m looking into the possibility of shooting in this aspect ratio as opposed to standard 1:78:1. Are there anamorphic lenses in super 16 available to accomplish this? Either that or are there alternative methods such as utilising anamorphic adaptors on the camera to achieve this ratio. Originally I was thinking of using spherical lenses and then cropping either in the lab or in post. The only problem with this is that I do not have access to a 2.35.1 ground glass, which makes shooting a problem.

 

Any suggestions and/or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

Regards,

Steven Wyatt

 

 

I am rather the novice here, but would any Aaton ground glass fit your camera? I am assuming you have an Eclair. I am quite sure that Aaton makes an almost common top 2.35 / 1.78 viewing screen. Might that help? If you have a video tap, you could use a mask on the video monitor. Just make sure that if you do, you give your self some wiggle room. I did this once with a regular 16mm stuff for matting only, but I needed to see the frame. The black tape I put on the monitor was a huge help.

 

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Hi,

 

I recntely shot a film in London in super16 in 2.35:1 aspect ratio, me to didn't had exces to 2.35:1 ground glass, so I just used the montior with gaffer tape on it(cropping to 2.35:1) as a refernec, I think it's turend out great, we also shot some steady cam work and my steady cam opertor also did the same thing on his monitor, and everthing turend out ok.

the only problem that we had was in the wide shots, because even the 9.5 prime lens didn't always gave us the extrime wide shot that we wanted.

but I realy think that when you shoot a low budget film you sometimes need to use low budget methods if you know what I mean...

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Wow, that's actually much wider than 2.35:1/2.40:1... or even 2.66:1 (which is what you get with regular 16mm + 2x anamorphic attachment).

 

I don't really can say for sure what crop mask the editor has put, but I am almost certain that this is a 2.35:1 mask on, please anyone correct me if I'm worng.

but any way when we get to post production it will be 2:35:1.

 

Oron.

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Your screenshots are about 3.12:1 to be exact. :) Probably just a quick approximation by the editor...

 

Dear Antti,

 

Thanks for paying my attention to this!

I got those stills captures from the director a day or two before I post them and I admit I didn't measured the frame or notice it in first view(but I learned that mistakes happen even if you think that you know your job perfectly),

anyway I checked it with the a editor and he did use the 2.35:1 mask from the pre-set on the FSP, so I didn't found out (yet) why it came out 3.12:1 and I'm trying to check it out, if you or any one else have any idea why this could happen I will be happy to hear your views.

 

Thanks,

 

Oron.

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If your footage was TK'ed as 16x9 anamorphic, what may have happened is that your editor applied the 2.35 mask to the squeezed footage, which would then be unsqueezed in FCP leaving you with an ultra wide crop

hey,

 

I think this is what actually happened, but I'm happy to say that the problem was fixed, I will post in a different thread some new captures frames as soon as I will get some.

 

But I think it's fair to say that if you shoot super16 with slow stocks and good lenses you can definitely get good results even if you crop to anamorphic, I used the Kodak 100T&200T and the Fuji vivid160T for most scenes except one scene that we decided that a little bit of grain can look nice on it, so I used the Fuji Eterna 500T and for the glass I used a set of Zeiss primes and a canon 7-63 zoom.

 

Oron.

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Your screenshots are about 3.12:1 to be exact. :) Probably just a quick approximation by the editor...

 

 

Also do not forget that video has rectangular pixels when you look at a video image on a computer screen with square pixels it ends up getting shorter..

 

-Rob-

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