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• transfering hd footage TO super 8 
  Thanks for the great responses. Dan, im using the vx2k and mk1. Sounds like you know my pain all too well! Good idea re the test. That will be my first move. Chris, Yep sounds look like there isnt...
• One Breath Around The World 
  It's just a stunning piece....a wonder. Thanks Mark.
• Canon 814 XL-S: erratic film speed dial problem 
  Hello, I recently bought a Canon 814 XL-s that seems to be in mint condition externally. The only visible issue are the seals around the cartridge compartment that are ruined and falling off. But u...
• 2.39 / 2.40 aspect ratios 
  Please don’t blame the projectionists. We have ISO 2939 that defines picture image area on prints, position and dimensions. We have ISO 2906 and 2907 to regulate the maximum projectable image...
• Question about film print 
  The cheapest, simplest way might be to process your B&W as reversal. So experimenting with the processing to see if you get a useful image that way might be a next step. I never did reversal pr...
• How tk get better with Ronin S? 
  I have a Ronin S /A7III set up.. are you using the phone app.. you need to activate the whole unit with the app the first time you use it.. and you can then set about a million parameters in the ap...
• How much MTF is enough? 
  I wish it was as easy as explaining the acronym I always stumbled wondering what the minimum contrast is that the human eye can discern. Who's eye.  We're all different. Some people have extr...
• If a film person goes to digital ... 
   So I could shoot something with an Ursa Mini 4K and make it look like it came out of the F55? Thinking of getting some shots to look like "Haters Back Off!"
• I'm getting scratches in my CP-16r 
  So it's negative film, which means it wasn't run through a projector. That leaves us with the camera, the processing lab or the Cintel.Dom is right, run a scratch test. If it's not your camera then...
• arriflex lenses 
    35mm lenses will work fine on a 16mm camera. A lot of older lenses in Standard or Bayonet mount are sold on ebay with cheap PL mounts fitted, which are easily removed. The sellers usual...
• Star Trek Discovery Season 2; what lenses? 
  Oh yes, that's right! Filming for the second season would have been well underway by that time though.
• Principles to apply when you don't have much lighting control? 
  Mike .. I shot a  video for the anytime fitness chain last year ..in Tokyo .. as a small part of a shoot they were doing all around the world.. at their franchise gyms..  I share your pai...
• Ektachrome! E6 the Cinelab Ekta runs! 
  Robert,how about DS-8 processing and splicing?Thanks,Volker
• ARRI AMC-1 Active cforce Motor Controller with LBUS Interface and cable set 
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• Best lighting books for film? 
  Reading books is great but you need to practice and the best advice I got was to practice with miniatures. Buy one of those clamp-on desk lamps with the long swiveling articulated arm, then go to...
• Animals and tungsten lighting 
  Sounds like you need to dig deeper with the trainer herself and find what exactly she meant. Most people do t know enough lighting terminology to ask for what they wantShe might have been trying t...
• Overlaying screen on monitor 
  Its because you have removed all the light and shadow. Composite the original dark screen back over the top. That will give you back the off angle darkening around the edges (fresnel) and the refle...
• Hazer tips / questions 
  I think I can imagine why, but would you mind sharing your reasons? And is that only location interiors or studio too?
• Practical Tungsten Bulbs Question 
   Hey Guy, love your stuff! read a bunch on your website.I'm going to infer that this was single phase US household power (please correct me if i'm wrong), my question is after you rectified th...
• VNF-1 film through E-6 - sensitometric effect ? 
  Hi All,I get the occasional request to process old Ektachromes ( VNF-1 ) which I've always declined.I know results can be poor, so does anyone know if processing a 'minimal' amount of VNF-1 film th...