Filmshooting

overexposure. i like to underexpose tri-x slightly to keep the grain down and blacks black. /matt I'm confused (again). In my experience, underexposing leads to *increased* grain, due to the fact that I must pump more light through the film to achieve proper brightness. Now, I haven't projected in ...

Those 6080's are wonderfully quiet runners, aren't they? I was surprised to see that they use *belts* in the drive train. Common in larger format cameras, but I'd never seen them in S8s. These belt are *really* skinny, and like cassette tape player belts, they wither and die. (Though oddly, it seems...

hmm, how about replacing the opaque shutter disc with a ground glass? /matt Hi Matt, The shutter in the Nikon is press-fitted to the collar, which mounts in a strange off-center way to the drive shaft. But Nizos use a shutter that is screw-mounted to a cog which runs the pull-down claw. Nizo shutte...

it's cool if you like to experiment, but if it was such a great idea everybody would be doing it, no? ;) ++ christoph ++ I use it to shoot weddings on Tri-X for a local production company. In low-light situations where I would otherwise be unable to capture any usable image at all, the shutterless ...

The shutterless camera exposes film continuously to light reflected from a particular scene. How many stops does one gain with a 360 deg. shutter, as opposed to a 180 deg. shutter? Of course, +1 f-stop of gain. How many stops does one gain simply flashing the film to an arbitrary light source, (not...

You can get similar results without undesiderable effects "flashing" the film before or after shooting. Carlos The shutterless camera exposes film continuously to light reflected from a particular scene. How many stops does one gain with a 360 deg. shutter, as opposed to a 180 deg. shutte...

reedsturtevant wrote:Neat mod, Mitch!

I added your tip to the Super 8 wiki, http://super8wiki.com, hope you don't mind.

I love Wikipedia! Not only do I not mind, I am honoured. Thanks for the paraphrasing - you may have saved my *life*.

Mitch

hahah.. cool thoughts mitch... you always seem to be coming up with something new and interesting to try out. seems like a workaround for using a nikon the same way you can use a nizo (with the B setting)... pip pip cheerio jusetan Greetings. With respect, and for clarity: Running the Nizo *continu...

TO Mitch Perkins: I chose "Super Duper 8" *because* it's silly! Unfortunately, having a sense of humour really ticks some peole off. I don't really know you, but I'm guessing you helped create the name to take offense to it. [snip good words] "Unfortunately, having a sense of humour ...

Simply walk away; you have wrecked your camera... Mitch This sounds like the worst idea I have ever heard. [mitch] >>You have led a sheltered life. Why don't you just take the lens off and take a wire brush to it to get that "soft focus" look? Or throw the camera, loaded with film cartrid...

[quote="Santo"]John - Shooting with the amazing new negatives and cropping 16x9 with the latest scanning devices will satisfy most anybody, [snip] I'd like to go on record as agreeing with you here, for the most part. It's easier and looks great. OTOH, anyone can set up their own telecine,...

Is Pan8 potentially a violation of a company's trademark name? Not that they'd care unless some sort of big breakthrough film happened that entered the radar using a filed gate and the filmmakers used the term Pan8. Panavision seems pretty anal-retentive. They might actually launch a case if such f...

What is your recommended mode of behaviour in such an instance? Mitch Umm... how about telling people why you shoot Super Duper 8? How about telling people what cameras work best with the format? How you go about framing shots without the benefit of a full viewfinder? Other thoughts? [mitch] >>All ...

Okay, this has zero to do with film making but I'm so excited I had to share. This is my new set of wheels. It's a '64 Falcon Sprint Convertable. Only 626 of them were ever made and they rarely come up for sale or auction. http://www.moviestuff.tv/bitchin_falcon.jpg Not sure but I believe this is t...

I've got a bunch of produced credits and can get a meeting with anybody in Canada,

Bzzzzzt! Not with me you can't. *And* that includes my mom and dad, who by the way told me that I'm special. Got it? *Special*.

Mitch