Filmshooting

I certainly wouldn't be filming a fictional story or any events. Just doing some tracking shots over scenery. Like you might see in a travelogue film. So it wouldn't be part of any big project. Just experimenting. I used to attach a GoPro to a Syma X8C quadcopter for aerial videos. The X8C could cop...

I think the ideal camera, if you could find one, would be an Elmo Album 3600. same 4.6mm super-wide angle lens as the Elmo F20S-XL, but half the weight. I bet it's relatively simple to even remove the silly zoom-element that swings away from the super-wide lens (the zoom element is very easy to rem...

Well, you don’t have to use wide angle attachments designed for video as there are also ones designed for S8-cameras: Canon C-8 Wide Attachment 43, Schneider UWL I-III (for all cameras with Schneider Macro lenses, e.g. most Nizos), wide angle lens for the Chinon Pocket-8, Eumig PM Aspheric Wide Ang...

The footage in the first link is awesome. Great stability. Ive seen the 16mm Bolex drone clip before. In the past, I have thought of doing the same thing myself but never got around to it. Years ago, my father used to work outdoors in a scenic bit of countryside with a view of the sea and a cliff. I...

Here in Australia, someone has mounted a super 8 camera to a drone. Looks like an FPV racing drone (doing some freestyle in acro mode.) Some great scenery there and what a great use of technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzIcR_U0NiU

BAC wrote:Don't they convert old television shows shot on 16mm to HD?

When they have access to the original negative, they can. Interesting that the US used 35mm for decades for a lot of their TV shows whereas most of Europe and Australia etc used 16mm for film origination.

Hey Patrick, if you don't mind me asking, why are you posting under another new account? A very good question, Tim! Not too long ago, when I tried to log in, I was prompted to change my password. I did just that but at the time, I also noticed that my e-mail address listed is not the one I use anym...

camera8mm wrote:this has WHAT? to do with shooting and editing 16mm 8mm or super 8mm film???

Alien is available on super 8 film (400ft condensed version.)

If this would be a video-forum, I would guess that the bonus-material is only available in PAL-resolution and that either your monitor and/or your player isn't set to "auto zoom" (or something similar)... I'm based in a PAL country myself (Australia.) I played the Blu-Ray on a Kogan Blu-R...

Edit: - top left hand corner of the screen. Among the footage is an interview with H.R.Giger discussing the design of the alien (at least that's what I assume he is doing) - talking in his native Swiss tongue. Unfortunately, the picture is so small that it's impossible to read the subtitles.

I recently bought the Alien Anthology Blu-Ray (U.K. version.) Although it's nice in a way to have all four movies together, I was really only interested in the first two anyway - both of them brilliant in their own unique way. The first was a great suspense film and the second was a great action fil...

Ektachrome 64T was originally a slide film that was cut down for Super 8. And more than one company loaded Fujichrome Velvia 50 into Super 8 cartridges. I believe the same was also done with Fujichrome 64T which apparently had finer grain than the Ektachrome 64T.

I bought an Andec pressure plate recently for just $1.00 and plan to try it soon to determine if it makes any perceptible difference in film exposed with Beaulieu 4008 series cameras. Congrats on getting an Andec pressure plate at a bargain price. I do recall someone someone on this forum using the...

I am not going to use 4008-lens on r16. but I will do the other way arround. Although both cameras share the same lens mount, I heard from one guy that the lens needs to be adjusted with regards to the collimnation when switching formats like this. Perhaps the flange focal depth is different betwee...