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INDEXSome Cameras Used By Sundance 2015 Filmmakers & Why They Chose Them
10 years, 6 months ago - Karel Bata
This is interesting. Nice to see 16mm hanging in there!
http://nofilmschool.com/2015/01/cameras-filmmakers-2015-sundance-film-festival
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10 years, 6 months ago - Karel Bata
I knew video would take over one day, but I learned pretty quickly on film shoots to keep my opinions to myself! :-o
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10 years, 6 months ago - Jamie Kennerley
Funny to imagine isn't it - video being "far too expensive" !!
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10 years, 6 months ago - Lee 'Wozy' Warren
I started my career shooting S8mm... Video was far to expensive in the 80s.
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10 years, 6 months ago - Jamie Kennerley
I have a 16mm job pencilled end of the month. They want the 'antiquated' look...
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10 years, 6 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
I imagine it's still a digital post workflow though? Or do they want the full real deal on steenbeck, projection grade, optical soundtrack?! It's amazing how easy we have it now really!
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10 years, 6 months ago - Lee 'Wozy' Warren
Shame haha! But wonderful it's being shot on film. I was looking at an SR3 recently with a view to buying it - very tempted.
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10 years, 6 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
Aren't we spoiled now with everything on hard drives! Good war story :)
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10 years, 6 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
I was interning at TVC as a post-production engineer, maintaining the 1" C-format spool tape machines just as NCA (news) were dipping a toe in this new-fangled BetaSR (or was it SP? Certainly long before even digibeta!!
Did you know that TVC was doughnut shaped to reduce sync issues? As you'll know, you couldn't cut mid-field without the vertical interval spoiling the picture until the kit managed to re-sync. Video used to be so hard compared with film - location was all done on 16mm as you couldn't easily take a 1" tape machine that was the size of a washing machine and weighed more than a car...
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10 years, 6 months ago - Alève Mine
@Paddy Robinson-Griffin
Yes, and yes!
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10 years, 6 months ago - Alève Mine
Did 8mm. But for experimental stuff. Does that count? I guess if someone else does the development I may do it again: in complete darkness (no proper development room) the film broke leaving part of it in the box, part outside. It wasn't a familiar room and I had find, palping my way around on all fours, an undamageable hard object and break the box open without damaging anything else. Then find the other items again without spilling anything. Couldn't let anyone in to support these efforts either as the film would have been ruined had they opened the door. Amazing how damn solid those boxes are.
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10 years, 6 months ago - Jamie Kennerley
No of course. Telecine and finish digitally.
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10 years, 6 months ago - Lee 'Wozy' Warren
Is anyone actually still shooting on film? Here on SP?
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10 years, 6 months ago - Lee 'Wozy' Warren
Video was an anathema to 'film'makers like me when it first came out... That's not real filmmaking!
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