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• Arriflex service tool kit identification 
  It's mostly generic tools - screwdrivers, spanners, 2 prong drivers, allen keys, tweezers and circlip pliers. The under-level has a take-up tension gauge top right which was used to check mag take-...
• Indie Tricks-of-the-Trade, or how to get good production values on a modest budget 
  Time to resurrect this thread with a low budget trick of the trade on how to maximize production value in an environment that might not be inherently  cinematic.  That was the question Mi...
• Principles to apply when you don't have much lighting control? 
   How I approach such situations is to identify the one element I can’t change and then tailor the look and style of the shot to it.  For example, on this location the one thing you...
• Film convert 
  Can somebody please explain this add on/plugin...or whatever it is? I get the basic concept, but I cant really find any good info on WHY one should use this over using the color grading tools that...
• Battery help for Arri 2c crystal motor 
  From memory, with 16V power supply the constant speed Arri motor draws around 2.5 - 3 amps with a mag. Start up current can spike higher.
• Practical Tungsten Bulbs Question 
  Full rectification and smoothing capacitors to take the rise and fall out of the pulsed DC that comes out of the rectifier. Its doable on hourse power since the converter is on a single circuit li...
• Best Cinematography Oscar Snub 
  But those cartoons characters themselves are actors, or at least were animated by actors.
• Another Formapan R100 
  My camera is single perf. The Fomapan film is too wide to fit down the film track in the camera smoothly.
• FS: Beaulieu 6008 Pro Super 8 MAX-8 C-mount lens camera 
  Er, okay that was quick. Sold.
• Arri 16St disassembly guide 
  Thank you very much Dom for your work on this!  Who knows, perhaps this will lead to increased work  for the few professional technicians still servicing these cameras.   I'm on...
• If a film person goes to digital ... 
  I think the motion blur was solved by using the Alexa Studio, with the optical finder and mechanical shutter
• Image circle Vs. sensor. Ideally 1 vs 1 or 2 vs1? 
  OP, you have to test the lenses at the stops you are going to use. Some lenses have to be closed down to get the edges doable. Others work pretty good wide open. Just depends. If a lens is adapted,...
• DIY Film Scanner (With Samples) 
  So I had a bit of a mental setback yesterday, got frustrated with myself in that I couldn't figure out how to run scripts in a windows shell, get any RAW data converted to TIFF or other usable form...
• How do I remove this C-mount adapter? 
  One year later and this is still not solved. I better send it to Bernie before he retires.
• Aaton XTR 
  
• Miah - Directed by Daniel Corcoran 
  Really nice, I love the long 2 shot in the car - just letting the location to the work (I'm not really sure what the Actors were saying at that point) Liked how dark you let the frame go
• Ektachrome D100 with Canon 310XL, Bolex 350 
  I've been shooting super 8 for over 30 years. I've shot with dozens of different cameras, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Agfachrome, Tri-8, and negative stocks. I physically own 12 working super 8 cameras...
• Arri Skypanel frequency setting 
  From my Skypanel source when I need to sub-rent:"We always reset our Skypanels to factory settings which means the frequency rate would be the highest when units go out.  If flicker was visibl...
• Atlas Orion "A" Set For Sale 
  Orion A Set back on market after receiving over 3 dozen emails for these, most of them after I took them off the market on the 5th. The A Set with brand new Innerspace 6 hole case is ready for imme...
• arriflex lenses 
  Presumably your adapter had some sort of bellows focus, as the RB67 lenses lack internal focusing. This would make for quite a cumbersome arrangement for motion picture work.