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I've been emailing back and forth with someone at Getty. The only content they're interested in representing is HD with HD Cam, or HD Cam SR, 1920x1080 24p deliverables. They're no longer handling negative. Their opinion is the only film content of enough worth to justify the expense of transferring to HD is something exceptional like a tornado or a collection of location specific material like establishers of Oklahoma City, maybe some coverage of the Oklahoma City Memorial, etc. In other words: Specific content that a producer might be looking for, not general rural beauty shots, etc.

 

But Hal, though they will not take 35mm film negative, you can transfer that 35mm film negative to HD and they will gladly take that. Sure, you foot the cost of the transfer, but if the footage is good, you can make that back.

 

I've been researching those stock houses and some of the nicer footage is being bought over 100 times. That's alot of little 20% royalties. I'm keeping my IIC and my Cookes and shooting stock.

 

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-Tim

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I've been researching those stock houses and some of the nicer footage is being bought over 100 times. That's alot of little 20% royalties. I'm keeping my IIC and my Cookes and shooting stock.

-Tim

Agreed, mine aren't going anywhere either. When I bought my IIC a while ago it came with three more Cooke SPII/III's in focal lengths (25/32/50mm) I already had. One of these days I should send all of my lenses to Guy at ZGC and have him rate them. Then of course peddle the leftovers on ebay. None of my lenses are junkers so no-one's going to get screwed, I'll just have the cream of the crop. Given the current asking prices on ebay for SP II/III's a lot of them must be ending up in PL adapters on RED's. The RED combined with SPII/III's might just turn out some pretty pictures. Digital tamed by old school optical quality!

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The RED combined with SPII/III's might just turn out some pretty pictures. Digital tamed by old school optical quality!

 

I've heard that the 18mm and the 25mm porthole (or whatever it's called) on the RED ONE. But I'm sure the 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, and 75mm would all look brilliant on that camera.

 

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-Tim

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RENT RENT RENT!

 

You people that buy 35mms are crazy!

 

Unless you are going to be shooting with it every day, or own your own rental house, or ad agency, or studio, it isn't worth it.

 

Even the big Hollywood Studios rent.

 

One must ask, "Why are rental houses so popular?" Maintenance is an issue as well. As and owner, you are responsible for gear that goes down. What would you do if your camera breaks in the middle of a take. What happens when all the footage from your wide lenses is soft? These things happen. I have been a pro film guy from day one and dragged my feet and truned my back on video. Look the the future. How much work will a film camera get you? How much money do you have to spend on processing and transfer? Video seems to be a more logical route.

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Hi Tim,

 

I'm going to post over in the "Lenses" forum to see if anyone's actually tested SPII/III's on a RED.

 

I thought I remember Stephen Williams commenting on it, I believe he had tested them on the RED. This was like two years ago, when the RED ONE first came out and I was assembling my Cooke Panchro package. Could be different now.

 

It would be awesome if all six lenses (18, 25 SPIII, 32, 40, 50, 75 SPII) worked fine on the RED line of cameras. I think they would give a really cool look.

 

Best,

-Tim

 

PS: By the way, the reason they don't work well on digital full frame cameras is because of something to do with the depth of the pixel tubes and the angle the light strikes them from the 18 and 25 lens. Supposedly, Leica has fixed this issue with the new M9 camera they just came out with, which is why it will work with all the Leica M lenses ever made, even the wide angle ones.

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Which PTZ camera are you using? Looks like OrbitAF? I have one of those and have not yet attempted to get PTZ working, is it difficult?

 

For a real security system most people will go with the more expensive camera as it has superior optics/zoom etc. But your setup works really well for casual/home user.

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