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• Short Film Critique - from a writer/director 
  You set out to make a film and finished it. Well done. I am curious how you were able to keep the budget at £300?
• Feature movie with 2C as main camera 
   Funny I always thought as them as a camera company maybe my age.. and the lenses came with the camera.. my point only is the term "a film shot on Panavision".. usually would refer to the cam...
• Resetting Aperture / Backlash? 
  Modern cine lenses don't have much backlash in the iris, if any, but it's probably good practice to set the iris from one direction. A bit like always tuning a guitar up from flat.You can check bac...
• SmallHD Focus Question 
    No its not sloppy .. its how some films are shot.. even big budget.. depending on the Dp or the Dir.. a lot of FP can work off monitors and their experience .. keep practicing ..you wil...
• Is 16mm more 'filmic' and thus THE look of film now? 
  Saw The Edge of the City today on TCM - gorgeous B&W cinematography. Looked up cinematographer - Joseph Brun. He had been nominated for an earlier film (Martin Luther). A little off topic but I...
• Sunlight: What should I know to get consistent lighting throughout the day? 
   I've done this with as simple a setup as a 12'x12' net overhead and a 1.2k HMI. This was for one person not moving much. As you add more people and get more complicated, you're going to need...
• Aaton LTR Excessive Jitter 
  Update: I took the lens and magazine off and, using the inching knob, watched the claw in relation to the shutter. Indeed, the claw is in the middle of the pull down when the shutter opens. Talked...
• DIY Film Scanner (With Samples) 
  Well all this cold weather has given me time to work inside on this project. Today I installed a DC motor installed in place of the AC motor. It's a Faulhaber DC coreless motor made in Germany, wit...
• Very tight super 8 Ektachrome cartridges ! 
  yes, had many transportation issue's with the old 100d, new stock is very smooth running. Found the old 100d to jam the most in my canon 514xl, old 100d would also cause flickery images e...
• Haze - Train workshop scene 
  You can use Loban(frankincense its called as per google)..Here its an industry standard,it gives out a bit thicker smoke compared to haze machine,Its safe to breathe..Its cheap.You can even put som...
• Practical Tungsten Bulbs Question 
  Thanks a lot Alex! that was an informative response. I was gonna shoot at a lower ISO with the BMPCC 4K so I was thinking of using the practical then lighting my subject with a china ball....
• ARRI Stabilized Remote Head SRH3 
  hey yallI am curious about some of the the features of the SRH3. Does it have backpan compensation? also the roll axis specs say 90+-. is it 90 degrees of roll in both directions or 90 degrees tota...
• experienced Composer looking for Work 
  New Showreel and available for some more projects in early 2019!www.filmandgamemusic.com/showreel
• WTB: Arri Amira premium license package in Canada 
  I have one available. You can email me bvw@vidgear.com
• Bausch and Lomb Baltar prime ( 7 lens ) 
  French DOP sells his unique and extremely rare BALTAR series prime in original case.7 lenses in perfect condition. 25 mm / 30 mm / 35 mm / 40 mm / 50 mm / 75 mm / 100 mm -  BNC removable mount...
• Combining lenses 
  The other thing is that a lot of comparatively affordable modern stills lenses are very competitive with anything in the world from a sheer sharpness and resolution perspective. Where they fail is...
• Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K - CONFIRMED! BMPCC 4K! 
   Wow... that long. Yeah the dealer told us the same thing that there are some problems that's why it takes a month or two to arrive. But they said that the people that had ordered the them in...
• Using modern PL mount lens on film cameras? 
  For reference: Body clearance of an 18-35 on an Aaton 35.
• Cleaning fungus from bolex viewfinder 
  You can sometimes clean fungus off with isopropyl alcohol, but I think those are fibres of some sort, not fungus.
• How would you light this room when using haze? 
  Ok I went today at sunset and took a couple quick snaps on my phone. Am I right in thinking I should get beams of light if I haze this up, just from the natural sunset?