Some home movies and test footage posted on my blog

Post by **Mafishus** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:47 pm

New Year's Resolution: Start blog about filming hobby... Check! With some trepidation I have started a blog *correction* Framed in 8mm, formely Alegria's films, about my filming triumphs and failures. It's always a little (or a lot) painful to the ego being a newbie at something, but I always learn more when I put myself out there and accept critiques and corrections that come my way. On the other hand friends and family have loved the Super 8 look on all the home movies I've done, so it's fun to have a place to share them.

Points of interest:
There is a very short clip of Vision3 in a very low light enviornment.

Post by **onsuper8** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:49 pm

Nice colours on the close up in short Vision 3 clip!

Post by **David M. Leugers** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:44 am

Nice, very nice! I think your problem with the out of focus is not due to your focusing the lens wrong. According to the clip, when the lens is at wide angle is when it is out of focus. It comes into focus as you zoom in. This suggests a back focus problem with the lens. Maybe it wasn't completely seated, a piece of crud keeping it from going all the way in? The Vision3 500T looks fantastic for a film of that speed... The E100D really shines outdoors.

David M. Leugers

Post by **James E** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:59 am

Dig the train shots. I've 3-4 carts of E64t to process from a dinner train ride around Mt. Hood. I was wishing I had E100D. Seeing yours makes me want to get off my butt and get it done..... ;p

Post by **Mafishus** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:09 am

David M. Leugers wrote:Nice, very nice! I think your problem with the out of focus is not due to your focusing the lens wrong. According to the clip, when the lens is at wide angle is when it is out of focus. It comes into focus as you zoom in. This suggests a back focus problem with the lens...

David M. Leugers

I noticed that as well. This camera was actually modified recently to be Max 8, so I'm little worried that that may be the cause of the focus issue. My lens did get fogged up by the sweaty club atmosphere and it was really dark, so I'm hoping that user error is the problem. I have another cart in being processed right now. If that shows the same problem, I'll take the camera in to get serviced. The guys at Pro8 have been really helpful to me in the past, so if it's the Max 8 mod I don't expect any issues with getting them to fix it.