Filmshooting

You could use the laser point as a descret matte reference for special effects composite alignment! 8O

There is one reason beyond all else why people go to movie theatres to see movies. It has nothing to do with whatever technology is used to show the film. Humans are communal animals and we loved to share events as a group and that is why the cinema are still the most popular form of audio visual en...

When Film-Thurso launched a campaign to bring cinema back to our town in 1984 (and we were ultimately successful in 1987 and 2000) the cinema industry had lost a stagerring 95% of it's customers due to, of all things, central heating in the home with video sticking the knife in. Yet today cinema is ...

It's a valid point regarding the films' softness but I would look at this from a different angle. When Film-Thurso developed the PIP 65mm system we also had some questions about the graphic detail per frame but then we saw another way to consider this. The question of how fast the human eye register...

Hmm, yet another bod who misses the point about Super 8 film. For me it's not about which is better but I have to say I'd sooner use film than video because (as missed by VideoFred) film sees better. Nevermind graphic resolution, just simply the ability of film to capture the more subtle differences...

Well hows this for getting an audience. Ormlie Community Association are from Thurso and here's a little project they did in a big way. The Dounreay dome is over 10 stories high and the JGB building is equally big. Have a look! http://www.caithness.org/fpb/june2005/photogallery/thumbs.htm?0?26 8O :D

Now ccortez, you have given dates for guns and the like but what was first, the machine gun or the sewing machine (the apprentice or the master, hmm, strong is he with the force), I'm sure it was very early on. Just did a check and: 1st patent for a complete machine 1790 operational (and fairly reli...

Hmm, interesting. But-
sewing needle = regestration pin
pulling claw = intermitant frame advance

Now can anyone tell us which came first- sewing machine or machine gun? I think it's the sewing machine. 8O

Actually zlacza it's not about moving pictures, it's about telling the story- whatever story you feel you want to tell. What system you use to do that is as important as the story itself because the difference between film or video or the various types of film image all have an appearance that is ap...

Calm down! Film-Thurso's amazing achievements in the field of widening the super 8 frame back in 1986 resulted in a picture that went right to the edge of the film but with a bit of black curving in up the the top and bottom corners because it wasn't a precise science- just tinkering! Not only that ...

Well, glad we got that sorted out then! Here in the UK (and I guess other places have similar) we have the Trading Standards department in local authority government where we can complain about the things traders say and do. Clearly any company claiming to have invented or introduced a new wide supe...

Hello edgebsl, Perhaps it's worth noting that "credit" is not important. The point I'm making is that NO-ONE should claim any credit for wide formats on Super 8 precisely because there has been little to no documentation of such development. Fine talk about the format but don't come out wi...

Just to get back to a comment by npcoombs, a boring thread on K40 this may be but you obviously don't understand the issue we have with K40. Many of us like to project our movies and K40 is the means to do so and at an exceptionally affordable price. We appreciate it's as old as the hills of Hollywo...

Well when 64T comes out it will be 'adjust to the change time' and the new price. If it's £16.99 process-paid then I could just about live with that as that's what K40 Sound was just before it stopped. However I have to say, and pardon my uncommon use of strong language here, the discontiuing of ...

Well I've already said it but the Sleep Always people weren't first with the extra wide super 8 format- they merely applied a little more to resource and finance to refining what amateurs and their great-aunt Mable had been doing for years, that's filing out the camera gate to use the extra space. W...