Filmshooting

Sorry for the delayed post, been more than a bit busy.

Thanks for the info, Manuel... What did you use to reduce jitter and how successful was it? Did it work on panning shots? Did it require user interaction to complete?

We used Dynapel SteadyHand.

http://www.dynapel.com

It worked very well ...

That stuff looks great. I'd love to see it full screen... What was your shooting ratio for the film? What equipment did you use?

We used a Beaulieu 1028xl60 that I bought on eBay. Great camera, rock solid...no complaints. We rented a Lowell light kit from a local supplier for the shoots ...

Well, our Super 8 film "Walk the Walk" premiered at the Sacramento Festival of Cinema on October 6th:

http://www.sacramento.org/film/pcspromo.html

We were very pleased with the results. It took a number of people by surprise that we shot in S8 since all the other entries to our section of the ...

Just perfect. Super, squeaky clean from the first frame to the last.

Thanks, Roger. Just to share a technical comment regarding cleanliness with the forum:

Everyone who shoots movie film should own a bottle of film cleaner/lubricant. It's cheap and available at any good photography store (I get ...

We're just entering post production on a short film for the Sacramento Film Festival titled "Walk the Walk." A year ago I got interested in making movies again like I did when I was a kid. My Dad used to have an old Argus 8mm movie camera and I would bug him all the time to buy me film and let me ...

Just got back the first 6 rolls of transfers of our short film "Walk the Walk" from Moviestuff in Houston. I have to say I was very impressed with the quality of the transfer. We shot over 40 rolls of Plus-X for this film. I was very nervous about even doing the project when I had originally priced ...

I suspect that Roger is right, I've had both good and bad results with the textured cartridges, so it really means nothing to any of us out here in the field. I can hold up two identical-looking textured carts as well: one was good and the other was bad...so what? At this point it only means that ...