Close up on Canon 814 Autozoom

[timhan]

Cool will do!

[flem]

wow, thanks mitch! sorry for doubting (fearing?) your technique. now i get it. and thanks for all your great ideas, i am going to try those too on my next roll of film!

flem

[timhan]

Hi flem,
Just got back from a photography shop where I bought a great close-up lens called Hoya Filter Close-Up +2 58mm Pitch: 0.75.

It cost about 30 dollars for one lens (there are 3 with different focal lengths), but I just saw similar ones on eBay for 20 dollars for all three! Anyway, it was good to go to a professional who could show me one that fits and test them out anyway.

They screw on and off perfectly by the way, so there isn’t any need for concrete (phew!).

Now, I finally checked out the manual for the 814, and it says that there was actually 2 canon macro lens anyway (240 and 450), although I couldn't find it them on eBay.

[flem]

that rules! i was planning on going to the camera shop as well for nd filter to comensate for too bright light. now i can take care of two things at once. thanks again!

flem

[greg_8mm]

By the way, it would be great to see your footage when it's ready!

I've finally had the rolls telecined.. I just remembered about this topic, so here it is:

http://www.g-trash.com/trixportugal.mov

the macro shot is starts at 1:38

[timhan]

Brrr! Portugal looks cold now. I was actually there for Christmas, were you in the North? The Algarve was quite warm when I was there.

The footage looks great by the way. The old boats came out really well.

How did you do the telecining, did you choose straight to mini DV?

[greg_8mm]

I was there during new year.. This is around the peniche area, about an hour north of lisboa..

it wasn't too cold actually.. I was happy to be able to just wear a wetsuit and no gloves/boots/cap! Compared to holland the air/ocean was pretty warm!!

Telecine was with a flashscan to 8-bit uncompressed video..

[timhan]

Mine was done by flash scan too, but to miniDV. I wasn't too keen on the look as it came out very grainy, and your footage was noticeably clearer.

Did you use a lab in the Netherlands?

[greg_8mm]

Well, my uncompressed clip was indeed grainy, but after the conversion to H264 quicktime the grain appears to have smoothened out..

I figured the best possible quality to transfer was to tranfer to uncompressed progressive video on harddisk. If I wan't the image to be less grainy I can always apply some sort of blur filter over it, but not the other way around..

I'm really happy with the telecine, it was done by supersens in Amsterdam. I sat next to the guys when they did the telecine so I could give realtime input. I really liked that...