Premium Member Nathan Milford Posted August 26, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted August 26, 2004 West Wing will be using Aatons. I'm sure if they want to use Primos you can throw a PV mount on a XTRprod. But I'm pretty sure it's Cannon's 8-64mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenolian Bell Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Ah the XTR, I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Downes Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 You know, this reminds me, I need newer lenses. All I have are some old (50's era) primes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member John Sprung Posted August 26, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted August 26, 2004 Super 16 transferred on a Spirit to HD, then downconverted to SD for broadcast can look much better than say 35 transferred on a Rank .... The Spirit 16 gate was a big shift in the price/performance balance. It introduced much better optics than had been available for 16mm telecine before, which was a major bottleneck. So, 16 for TV increased. For theatrical release, 35 Academy makes a lot of sense on a low budget. Contact printing all the way to release looks great, and eliminates an expensive optical pass on the whole show. -- J.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenolian Bell Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Looking at the original point to this thread. A multi Emmy wining power house like West Wing switching to Super 16 certainly validates it's viability for television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member John Pytlak RIP Posted August 26, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted August 26, 2004 As good as Super-16 is, "Size DOES Matter", so 35mm origination is usually better. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngmarRosengaard Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 It seems that the S16 TV shows get the most horrid transfer to DVD. Grain everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenolian Bell Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 If you are talking about the early years of "Sex and The City" or the early years of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer". Yeah the DVD transfers of those shows are really griany, that was dealing with older film stocks, and back before the optical enlargment for 16mm transfer was as good as it is now. Now most of the kinks in the system have been worked out and it looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xuefei24p Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 The Sopranos is S16? Are you kidding me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nykvist_fan Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Wow. I thought that Sopranos was 35mm all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted September 1, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted September 1, 2004 "The Sopranos" is shot in Super-35 (according to the October 1999 issue of American Cinematographer). The pilot may have been done in Super-16, I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member John Pytlak RIP Posted September 1, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted September 1, 2004 I found another source that says "The Sopranos" is 35mm: http://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/Jan...0/sopranos.html In what format is the show produced and edited? SW: It is shot in 35mm, shipped here for processing at CFI and telecined onto Digital Betacam at Riot. Then we receive 3/4-inch video dailies that we digitize into the Avid. For air, we do an on-line - associate producer Gregg Glickman supervises all of the final finishing, and Martin Bruestle supervises the sound dub and music. Here's a photo from the HBO website: Don't know the source of the information in the Camera Guild article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Gross Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 From firsthand observation I can confirm that The Sopranos is shot in 35mm. Don't know if it's S-35, 3-perf, etc., but it is originated on 35mm film. Don't know about the pilot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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