Upload some of your best SS8 stills into this thread

[Scot McPhie]

With all those workprinters out there - there must be heaps of telecined images around now - so why not upload some of your best stills here and tell us what you like about them. A celebration of Super 8!

For me - here's this shot - last night I was working on some ADR for this scene from In My Image - and I was just struck by it - there's something about the background quality I like here - perhaps some one can explain to me in technical terms what characterises it - but I like it - and it's even better in motion.

After being a way on holidays for a few weeks - and shooting heaps of digital stills I'm now getting back into finishing the film - and it's so refreshing to be staring at such beautiful film images.

Scot M
http://www.mango-a-gogo.com

[David M. Leugers]

Scot

What I like is the wonderful contrast range of film, in this case the remarkable (for a slow reversal film stock) shadow detail ability of
Kodachrome. Nicely composed shot, main character well modeled by
key and back light with the background retaining just enough detail that
it is there but not detracting from the focus on the main character. I bet
this shot would look absolutely incredible projected. It looks great transferred to video. 8)

David M. Leugers

[Andreas Wideroe]

I keep some stills here:

http://www.smalfilm.no/eksempler.html

There are many more to come the next days and weeks.

Andreas

[Goya]

Andreas,

I watched footage on that page and it's very nice. I have come questions.

- What was the fps rate?
- What kind of camera did you shoot with?

The results from the workprinter are impressive. Such high resolution and clean transfers.

[Andreas Wideroe]

1. The original framerate was 18fps. After capturing I changed the speed with Dodcap into film on PAL video (24/25fps).

2. I shot the film with my Minolta Autopak-8 K11 camera with a polarization filter on. This filter gives you very clean and powerful colours.

Yep, the WorkPrinter is indeed a nice thing to have

Andreas

[mattias]

here are a few sample images from the now infamous short i made. :-)

scanned on an mk3 (70's rank model) they aren't very sharp, but the colors and contrast are well preserved indeed.

/matt

[Scot McPhie]

Hi guys - a couple of questions:

Andreas - what kind of camera did you capture with - and what are it's settings - how many pixels ccd's etc. They're nice pictures too - nice and rich - the one of the kids by the water is my favourite - along with the red house -- the one of the town in the long shot is good - good exposure lattitude -- metered manually I bet?

Matt - where are the pictures? :roll:

cool

Scot M

[Andreas Wideroe]

Andreas - what kind of camera did you capture with - and what are it's settings - how many pixels ccd's etc. They're nice pictures too - nice and rich - the one of the kids by the water is my favourite - along with the red house -- the one of the town in the long shot is good - good exposure lattitude -- metered manually I bet?

Scot,
I captured with my Panasonic NV-MX300 3CCD camera @ PAL 720x576 pixels. Settings are: Manual aparture (f0-4,8 - that's what I normally use. Here I guess most are f2.8 or f0), shutter 1/50, manual focus, manual whitebalance (of the bulb).

I'm not sure about the town long shot since I got it from a job I did for a customer, actually same with the 2 boys.

Andreas

[Carlos 8mm]

Hi !
Home-made transfers pics here:

http://ar.photos.yahoo.com/bc/kacemasar ... os&.view=t



Carlos.

[mattias]

Matt - where are the pictures?

to me and supposedly everybody else they are inlined under my post. :-)

are you on a slow connection or something? here are the links if there's still a problem:

http://www.d.kth.se/~d92-mas/girls.jpg
http://www.d.kth.se/~d92-mas/boys.jpg
http://www.d.kth.se/~d92-mas/sandra.jpg
http://www.d.kth.se/~d92-mas/oliver.jpg

/matt

[Scot McPhie]

It was a weird thing Matt - when I wrote that reply they weren't there - but now - a few hours later - they are coming up for me under your post -- who can expalin the wonders of the internet --- beautiful colours and contrast - more than makes up for the lack of sharpness - they're quite lovely -- why was it infamous - what was it about?

Scot M

[mattias]

beautiful colours and contrast - more than makes up for the lack of sharpness - they're quite lovely

thanks. they were more blue straight off the film since we shot this on an overcast day, but i used color correction to create a more sunny look.

why was it infamous - what was it about?

infamous because i talk about it all the time without ever showing it. if it's not shots being ruined by kahl film it's a festival screening, and so on... :-)

it's about kids of various ages (10-18) and their behaviour in more or less erotic situations on a beach. ultimately it's not about sex though, but i won't tell you any more than that since i want people to see it first.

/matt

[Nick]

Carlos,

Is that Kahl black and white film negative super 8mm? In some of your pictures it looks a little less grainy than the Tri-X positive. Is the EXR 200 the early Kodak 200 Surveillance film or is it like the Vision 200 Negative? What type of lighting was there? It looks like they were photographed at night time.

Scot and Mattias,

Great color and images. I think i'll go shoot some S8mm this weekend.

Cheers,
Nick

[Carlos 8mm]

Carlos,

Is that Kahl black and white film negative super 8mm? In some of your pictures it looks a little less grainy than the Tri-X positive. Is the EXR 200 the early Kodak 200 Surveillance film or is it like the Vision 200 Negative? What type of lighting was there? It looks like they were photographed at night time.

Nick

Yup,
All these pictures are exctracts from S8 to video transfers.
Kahl (Orwo) ISO 100 It's less grainy than Kodak Plus-X (developed as reversal) and Kahl (Orwo) ISO 400 It's a little bit less grainy than Kodak Tri-X (developed as reversal too).

Specially Kahl 100 when is correctly exposed and developed looks like 16 mm footage.

The color negative transfers corresponds are from old EXR 200T stock(Surveillance film). More grainy than the new Vision 200T stock.
The pics were shot by night, with mixed ligths (blue (a lot!), red and we put some tungsten ligths).

Carlos.

[filmbuff]

Here's a link to a few stills from a real time Cinemate 20. There from interlaced NTSC and with a 10X zoom camcorder. Its a bitch to get the cam lined up just right with the 10X lens and I was a touch off on these as there is a bit of a hot spot sneaking into the right side of the frame

http://home.attbi.com/~elmobuff/super8/ ... nemate.htm