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by mrmatta
Sun May 22, 2005 7:46 pm
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Loading 100 ft Camera spools (16mm) myself
Replies: 10
Views: 1948

Thanks for all of the help. My plan was already to spool onto another 440ft roll and then rewind onto 100ft roll, hence:

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Glad to confirm that this will work and keycodes should remain correct.

As far as the 400ft. mag for my Filmo, I have one but I am of the ...
by mrmatta
Sun May 22, 2005 12:50 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Loading 100 ft Camera spools (16mm) myself
Replies: 10
Views: 1948

Loading 100 ft Camera spools (16mm) myself

I have a few thousand feet of 16mm color neg stock on 400ft rolls. I would love to spool some of it onto 100ft rolls to use in my Filmo 70HR.

Is there any reason why I couldn't/shouldn't do this myself??? I have spare 100ft camera spools with boxes and a set of 16mm rewinds. My guess is that I ...
by mrmatta
Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:20 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Quantegy shuts analog audio tape plant, files for bankruptcy
Replies: 41
Views: 8303

I'm a professional audio engineer at a commercial recording studio in Nashville and I would have to say that 2" tape has less than a 10% market share on major label projects here. It has pretty much already gone away. I work on 2" 16-track and 2" 24-track regularly, but it has definitely become a ...
by mrmatta
Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:54 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: BBC - Film for outdoors / video for indoors?
Replies: 10
Views: 2217

It's funny that these practices were for purely practical/logistic reasons (heavy immoble video technology, etc.). I was just sitting in the theater this past weekend watching the documentary "Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster" and not really noticing that it wasn't shot on film. I was paying ...
by mrmatta
Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:21 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: guy maddin & super-8??
Replies: 6
Views: 2334

Check out the current issue of American Cinematographer (85th Anniversary issue). There is an article about Maddin and it goes into a few details about how he achieves his unique stylized look.
by mrmatta
Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:22 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Mac OS X
Replies: 18
Views: 4112

I was reluctant to move to OSX in the beginning, but it's inevitable that you will have to end up there (Apple has effectively buried any trace of OS9).

My suggestion - make it a quick transition and don't try to live in both worlds for very long. They are very different and all of my problems were ...
by mrmatta
Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:34 pm
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Opinions: 16mm Ekta160 for NHRA Drag Races in Evening????
Replies: 2
Views: 902

I shot some drag races with 16mm K40 a few months ago and once the sun went down, it was WAAAAY to slow to capture anything usable (It looked fabulous in the afternoon). I would suggest using something more like 500T (which is available in 100 foot loads).

I was shooting at a small dragstrip ...
by mrmatta
Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:27 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: It's a Boy!!! ... or something...
Replies: 2
Views: 832

It's a Boy!!! ... or something...

Hi all,

I'm relatively new around here. I'm an audio guy that has recently become obsessed with film. This Spring, I bought a few old cameras (a 4008S, a Revere double-run 8 clockwork camera, and my final purchase - a Filmo 70HR) and shot test rolls with each (all B&W), bracketing expsures and ...
by mrmatta
Wed May 19, 2004 6:19 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Timelapse 2004. What are you shooting?
Replies: 20
Views: 6824

I think I'm going to shoot some 16mm K40 at a rural Tennessee dragstrip if the weather is nice, if the weather is bad it may be the inside of a bar.
by mrmatta
Sat May 15, 2004 10:01 am
Forum: Small gauge film forum
Topic: Slightly OT: Pentax spot meter repair??
Replies: 1
Views: 863

Slightly OT: Pentax spot meter repair??

I've recently picked up an old Pentax/Honeywell ANALOG 1degree spot meter and it is all I will ever need for my S8/R8/16mm adventures. The high scale wasn't working and I assumed it was just a dead mercury cell (there are two batteries, 9v for low scale and an obsolete mercury cell for high scale ...